The Far Side (Italy) for Heavy Prog
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Topic: The Far Side (Italy) for Heavy Prog
Posted By: Svetonio
Subject: The Far Side (Italy) for Heavy Prog
Date Posted: February 27 2014 at 07:11
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http://mellowrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-far-side-parallelebiped" rel="nofollow - http://mellowrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-far-side-parallelebiped  released 24 February 2002 All music: by Montrucchio, except 4: by Fasanelli. All lyrics: by Montrucchio & Fasanelli. All arrangements by The Far Side. personnel: Simone Montrucchio - vocals; basses; keyboards, programming Lorenzo Fasanelli - guitars; backing vocals Davide Guidoni - drums & percussion "Each of the first four tracks on the album features quite an intricate music where the band's own and highly original ideas met those influenced by Rush (in the first half of the 1980s) and Fates Warning (on "Perfect Symmetry", etc). So, while listening to tracks, located on the first half of the CD, I was almost sure that "Parallelebiped" is an album of a unified stylistics that can be defined either as a heavy Art-Rock or a soft Prog-Metal. On "Gaze Deep" (5) however, the band has unexpectedly and quite radically changed the musical direction. The only instrumental on the album and both of the following tracks, "Fading Warmth" and "The Hug of the Few" (6 & 7), are free of any influences, and stylistically, they're about a pure Symphonic Art-Rock, which is both complex and interesting, as well as the album as a whole, though. The lush passages and bright solos of synthesizers, varied interplay between them and the fluid solos of electric guitar, the parts of bass, drums, and those of acoustic and semi-acoustic guitars are typical for all them. The excellent piano passages are present on "Fading Warmth". Only "Strange Attractors", which is the last track on it, determined the predominant stylistics of this parallellybiped musical entity." |
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Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: February 27 2014 at 08:14
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The text quoted from bandcamp above actually comes originally from a 2003 review of the album by Vitaly Menshikov on the ProgressoR.net site, to which Olav contributes: http://www.progressor.net/review/the_far_side_2002.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.progressor.net/review/the_far_side_2002.html . It's a very positive review, and this artist is already on Proggnosis (Subgenre - Style - Progressive Metal: Melodic - Hard Prog): http://www.proggnosis.com/ARTIST_DETAIL.aspx?AID=2681" rel="nofollow - http://www.proggnosis.com/ARTIST_DETAIL.aspx?AID=2681 . The stream on bandcamp seems to have extremely low audio levels for some reason (unless I'm going deaf from an overload of thrash metal just lately...  )Seems like they definitely belong here - so over to you, Thanos...
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: February 27 2014 at 13:37
| ok, comfortable with this, thanks |
Posted By: yam yam
Date Posted: April 24 2014 at 22:26
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=8778" rel="nofollow - Added . 
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