WHOSE DREAM?

BunChakeze "Whose Dream?" is a strange release. Debut album,released 25 years after it was recorded. Release of the band which never had any other releases during all these 25 years. Album,containing demo-level compositions,still sounding very on the level of time they were recorded...

Nowadays ,on the wave of prog rock popularity, many of old bands just searching on their vaults for materials to be released as "legacy", many live bootlegs got their new life as official re-releases,etc. But even in that situation "Whose Dream" looks a bit strange: two versions of the same song,plus some openly raw compositions show there were not enough quality material even for only album on band's (?) shelves.

One of the reason I noticed this release at all was his brief rising up in PA Top list. Non- existing (and in fact almost never existed) band, released its old demos 25 years after they were recorded, their self-released album has not enough quality material to be completed, sound and mix quality both are on the level of 80-s,....., and so on, and so on.

It should be a serious reason, why this album was noticed and became so popular there on PA! I spent some hours searching in internet and realised that in fact there are no serious sources of information on this band/release at all. Wiki and serious blogs say us nothing, some small blogs are filled with some reviews, taken from Progarchives. At the same time there on PA bigger part of reviews are written possibly by band's friends and relatives and contains mostly advertising and 4-5* ratings. Still before I found this music for listening I was sure project manager(s) are very active business person(s).

Only now, when I got this release to listen, I was even pleasantly surprised. Usually when one see musicians hyperactivity trying to push their release (at any price), it often looks the product should be far not of the best quality. With this album I expected all possible worst variants. But in reality, even with all above mentioned problems, this album is not so bad! Music is really prog rock (ok, from the time it was recorded), there are some interesting tunes and compositions' ideas. For sure all this material sound more like demo and is hardly actual today, but at least almost all album is listen-able.

It's not easy to evaluate such release (with all that pushing up activities around it). I could hardly recommend this release even speaking purely about music because of semi-pro recording level and absolutely dated sound and material. But possibly there could be some fans searching for something ... vintage.