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May. 6th, 2012
Мини-обзор моего диска
May. 6th, 2012 11:54 amKinesis
This CD grabbed us from the get go, simply one of the most aurally attractive albums we’ve heard in a while. From Toronto, Mœbius Cat’s second album End of Time was released as a digital download in 2010, then as this CD on the MALS label in 2012. Mœbius Cat feature beautiful female vocals on some of the songs, male vocals on others. (There are two male vocalists; one sounds like David Bowie.) The songs with female vocals are our favorites. The music here is modern in the best sense: richly-textured and detailed while still leaving space in the mix, often with that seductive, cinematic, ambient feel that Lebowski and Frequency Drift also have. Some songs (It’s Over, for instance) would work on an Iona or October Project album, others on an Afro-Celt Sound System or Peter Gabriel album. Accordion, violin, and flute play important roles in addition to the usual guitars, keys, bass and drums. The music is melodic, emotional, and just far enough out of the current prog mainstream to capture the ears of the jaded prog fan. You can preview the entire 57-minute album (mp3 icon above), but at least listen to the title track -- its chorus will lodge in your cranium until you displace it with something else.
This CD grabbed us from the get go, simply one of the most aurally attractive albums we’ve heard in a while. From Toronto, Mœbius Cat’s second album End of Time was released as a digital download in 2010, then as this CD on the MALS label in 2012. Mœbius Cat feature beautiful female vocals on some of the songs, male vocals on others. (There are two male vocalists; one sounds like David Bowie.) The songs with female vocals are our favorites. The music here is modern in the best sense: richly-textured and detailed while still leaving space in the mix, often with that seductive, cinematic, ambient feel that Lebowski and Frequency Drift also have. Some songs (It’s Over, for instance) would work on an Iona or October Project album, others on an Afro-Celt Sound System or Peter Gabriel album. Accordion, violin, and flute play important roles in addition to the usual guitars, keys, bass and drums. The music is melodic, emotional, and just far enough out of the current prog mainstream to capture the ears of the jaded prog fan. You can preview the entire 57-minute album (mp3 icon above), but at least listen to the title track -- its chorus will lodge in your cranium until you displace it with something else.
Еще один обзор диска
May. 6th, 2012 11:58 amPrognaut
Чувак не во все в'ехал, но что-то в его словах есть. Все-таки фанаты чистого прога не всегда в это в'езжают... Хотя вот с этим он абсолютно прав:
"I warn everyone that if you tried to listen to just clips of this, or skim thru the songs for a few seconds each, you’d miss the changes and varied styles mixed in all over this CD. For instance the 5th song (‘Cold Rain’) begins ordinary with the alternating male vocals, but an eastern motif is brought in on a bridge, then violin is used through in places to give more mystery. The song first strikes you as a heavy guitar rock song, but tablas and eastern sample keyboards are used nicely. The following song (“Farewell Guru”) uses more eastern motif with ghostly female voice, piano, sitar, tablas, djembe, and various other ethnic percussion samples."
Чувак не во все в'ехал, но что-то в его словах есть. Все-таки фанаты чистого прога не всегда в это в'езжают... Хотя вот с этим он абсолютно прав:
"I warn everyone that if you tried to listen to just clips of this, or skim thru the songs for a few seconds each, you’d miss the changes and varied styles mixed in all over this CD. For instance the 5th song (‘Cold Rain’) begins ordinary with the alternating male vocals, but an eastern motif is brought in on a bridge, then violin is used through in places to give more mystery. The song first strikes you as a heavy guitar rock song, but tablas and eastern sample keyboards are used nicely. The following song (“Farewell Guru”) uses more eastern motif with ghostly female voice, piano, sitar, tablas, djembe, and various other ethnic percussion samples."