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| Артист: |
RAIN |
| Альбом: |
Cerulean Blue, 2004 |
| Жанр: |
symphonic prog |
| Формат файла: |
flac, cue, log, data, jpg/487,01MB |
| Ссылка: |
CD |
| Нахождение: |
eDonkey/Kademlia |
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Tracklist:
1 The Lammas Lands 8:58
2 Parsifal 6:08
3 Starcrossed 4:52
4 The Silver Apples of the Moon 7:38
5 Light and Magic 10:53
6 Jerusalem 9:13
7 Cerulean Blue 6:36
Musicians:
Rob Brown - narration
Philip Morgan - violin
Rebecca Percy - viola
Hannah Payne - cello
Stephanie Moorey, Fleur Bray & Emma Newman-Young - parsifal choir
Nicola Robbins, Blue Stevens & Clive Stainton - backing vocals
RAIN - bass, keyboards, guitars, Jerusalem pipes, vocals, eye
| QUOTE | Every now and then an album comes by that totally blows my mind and that is certainly the case with "Cerulean Blue"... an album of epic proportions. Written and performed by an artist simply noted as RAIN, this concept album details the story of a man (Rick) and his journey across America as narrated thru a series of postcards. With his angelic voice RAIN and his cast of top musicians detail this journey and have written some simply beautiful music. RAIN’s voice actually reminds a bit of IQ's Peter Nicholls at times and shares a deep conviction for meaningful lyrics. The seven tracks on "Cerulean Blue" are carefully narrated as well by the deep toned laynx of Rob Brown which adds a certain degree of mysticism to the album. Musically this is a symphonic album with lots of orchestration and choral passages and features some stellar keyboard work, violin, viola, cello, sax and drums. This album is a work of art and comes highly recommended and can be ordered directly from RAIN’s website at www.telosmusic.net. (loserboy, progarchives.com)
Being absolutely honest, I had some prejudice against this band due to the enormous amount of spam received in my PM account of Prog Archives and even personal mail, something to what I’m not used to, this kind of aggressive advertising produces the contrary effect than the desired by the person who floods my boxes, but it was for free in their website and the comments were pretty good, so decided to give them a chance and what I heard was really good.
To start the bio we must say that RAIN is not a band, we’re talking about a multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker who plays almost every instrument in his debut album including: bass, keyboards, guitars, Jerusalem pipes, vocals, eye, with the efficient narration of Rob Brown and a group of competent musicians mostly in the chords and backing vocals.
There is not much more we can say about RAIN because his site provides absolutely no information about him and not easy to find in the net either.
Despite what Phil Collins (Well, not a good reference when talking about musical taste with a proghead), Tony Banks, Martin Offord or Tony Smith and many personalities have said about "Cerulean Blue" being the quintessential Progressive Rock experience of the 21st Century, I don't think so, the album is good but not outstanding, the sound is oriented towards Symphonic with clear Genesis references plus Pink Floyd influence with clear Neo Prog and Ambient/New Age echoes.
The choral arrangements are outstanding and the wonderful strings a la Vivaldi deserve a special mention, but the music is simple in Prog terms. Good for fans of soft Symphonic or Neo Prog. (Iván Melgar Morey - Perú, progarchives.com)
This album came out from left field in early 2005. It garnered rare praise from key icons in the progressive rock field, got picked up for distribution by Steve Hackett's label Camino, and made many a reviewer's "best of" lists. There are three main reasons for this: Rain's very strong writing; Cerulean Blue's top-notch production, and Telos Music's low-price policy (including a general-public, full-album download for free). Cerulean Blue is a concept album, both story- and music-wise. Each of the seven tracks begin with Rob Brown reading a postcard from Rick, a young man in search of the meaning of life (although things are presented more subtly than that). Each track also starts with a string trio section that introduces the melodic and harmonic material of the song (except for the closing title track, a string trio by itself). Then the whole band comes in - and the whole band is the enigmatic Rain, playing all guitars, keyboards, and drums, in addition to singing. Besides a few backing vocalists and the aforementioned narrator, the only guest on the album is Food saxophonist Iain Ballamy. But the music itself has nothing in common with Food. Rain's songs are purebred progressive rock of the symphonic, highly melodic kind. One can easily detect the influence of the Moody Blues (and not only because of the narrator), Genesis (both early and late), Steve Hackett, Fish, Pink Floyd, and Roger Waters, among others, and similarities with Pendragon, Brave-era Marillion, IQ, and the likes. Then again, the album doesn't really sound like any of them. These influences have been entirely digested and integrated into a personal sound that could downright define the softer, more easily accessible side of progressive rock. Add a good vocal presence, luxurious mixing (with plenty of keyboards, sound effects, and strings), and eye-catching packaging to get an album that noticeably grows on you and is arguably one of the best melodic prog releases of 2005. The CD also includes a video and an interview with the artist. (François Couture, AMG) |
| CODE | EAC extraction logfile from 14. December 2006, 19:26 for CD
Rain / Cerulean Blue
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