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THE BURSTING

Edhels

 

Neo-Prog

2.62 | 9 ratings

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proghaven
4 stars Oh now I understand at last why after their magnum opus, Still Dream, they released their abstract Astro Logical and their ridiculous Universal! They did not go bad, not at all. They just partially returned to their roots. Perhaps it would be wrong to consider The Bursting an instant instrumental prog album like other products by Edhels (except Angel's Promise). What the music really is, may be best described by the Russian word 'naigrysh'. It's very difficult to translate it into English. Dictionaries provide 'folk tune' as the English for 'naigrysh', but in fact it's not necessarily folk and not necessarily a tune (i.e. motif, theme etc). It may be just a spontaneous strumming with no obvious musical structure. Edhel's debut album is in fact one giant electronic prog naigrysh. Sometimes luxuriously negligent, sometimes impudently negligent, occasionally absurd, occasionally innovative, mostly charming. Unfortunately the album's duration is (at least in my personal terms...) excessive, this music hardly earns 53 minutes of a listener's time, it would be better 35-40 minutes long, a good half of the tracks could be shortened with no content loss. But I'd say it would be unserious and irresponsible to consider The Bursting a weak album. It's far from being perfectly done, but more than interesting by design. The musical ideas are rich and very promising. Yes the young, inexperienced and poorly equipped band could not work them out and perform quite well what they conceived. But if someone asks me 'do you want to have this on vinyl?', I would say yes. At least to me, this album would be an excellent addition (sic!) to my collection. Thus, four stars.
proghaven | 4/5 |

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