This album I had completely forgotten about until I was reviewing old files and thought about whether the amazing guys who composed the music had made anything else, and looking into it on discogs it seems they didn't, not to mention, their masterwork was composed back in 1995, already now 27 years ago! Generation Z and their stupid tiktok, had not even happened yet! Can you believe that, all you millennials slaving away at minimum wage office jobs?
The music is all instrumental and is cut into 3 parts with one side long suite that is absolutely out of this world. Of course I love the fact they perfectly imitated the old prog sound, but unlike so many others in the 90s and since, they brought in original sounds, melodies, chord changes, instead of slavishly copying the usual 'standard prog' playbook of diminished chords, symphonic sounds with lush arrangements, etc.
Like the best prog of all, the music keeps changing every minute or two, sometimes radically differently. It seems like someone put years of work into these compositions to be honest (tbh as the kids say), and IRS (it really shows).
The second track, called Cataracte (ie waterfall) does start with a familiar minor or diminished guitar arpeggio, which recalls French 70s band Asia Minor or Mahavishnu, and then the thick guitars remind me also of the great great Arachnoid LP, but the music moves into truly totally original material very quickly thereafter:
Really a masterpiece for all time, without a doubt.
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Wonder if the guitarist's ever heard of Robert Fripp? Hard to miss it actually.
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