SPOCK'S BEARD - SNOW (LIMITED EDITION)
Titulo - Snow (Limited Edition)
Autor - Spock's Beard
Estilo - Rock Progresivo
Año - 2002
Fuente - CD (Edicion Limitada)
Extracción - CDparanoia v9.8
Formato - OGGenc v1.0
Bitrate - Q8
Modo - Stereo
Elink : CD
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Disc 1.
1. Made Alive Overture (5:32)
2. Stranger In A Strange Land (4:29)
3. Long Time Suffering (6:04)
4. Welcome To NYC (3:33)
5. Love Beyond Words (3:24)
6. The 39th Street Blues (I'm Sick) (4:06)
7. Devil's Got My Throat (7:17)
8. Open Wide The Flood Gates (6:14)
9. Open The Gates Part 2 (3:03)
10. Solitary Soul (7:34)
11. Wind At My Back (5:12)
Disc 2.
1. Second Overture (3:47)
2. 4th Of July (3:11)
3. I'm The Guy (4:48)
4. Reflection (2:49)
5. Carie (3:05)
6. Looking For Answers (5:16)
7. Freak Boy (2:12)
8. All Is Vanity (4:36)
9. I'm Dying (5:09)
10. Freak Boy Part 2 (3:01)
11. Devil's Got My Throat Revisited (1:55)
12. Snow's Night Out (2:05)
13. Ladies And Gentlemen, Mister Ryo Okumoto On The Keyboards (2:40)
14. I Will Go (5:09)
15. Made Alive/Wind At My Back (8:28)
Formacion:
* Neal Morse - lead vocals, piano, all synth, acoustic guitar
* Ryo Okumoto -hammond and mellotron
* Dave Meros - bass, vocals, French horn
* Alan Morse - electric guitars, vocals
* Nick D'Virgilio -drums, percussion, vocals
Invitados:
* Chris Carmichael - violin, viola, cello
* Jim Hoke - saxophone, clarinet, autoharp
* Neil Rosengarten - flugelhorn, trumpet
* Molly Pasutti - background vocals
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Spock's Beard began in 1992 when brothers Neal (lead vocals) and Al Morse (guitar) teamed up with drummer Nick D'Virgilio. After self-financing their first album, bassist Dave Meros joined, and The Light was recorded in 1994. Consisting of four lengthy songs, this debut album was well received by progressive rock fans, but received little public acclaim. Ryo Okumoto joined in 1995 to play keyboards. In 1996, The Official Bootleg was released, a live performance containing the entire first album plus one song from the upcoming second album. 1996 also saw the band sign with various record labels around the world, in addition to releasing Beware of Darkness, which contains the same style of music, but in shorter pieces (all ten minutes or less, except for the 15-plus-minute last track). Spock's Beard's third studio album, The Kindness of Strangers, was released at the end of 1997; Day for Night followed in 1999 and V was issued a year later. Deciding they had the experience and chops to attempt a concept album, they spent the next few years putting together Snow. The double album revolved around the title character, an albino teenager that could possibly be the messiah. Taking a much more detailed approach to the material, the band had a difficult two years writing the album and was rewarded with a strong promotional push from Metal Blade Records.
Spock's Beard are the quintessential American progressive rock band. Their music has consistently been brave, restless, and often visionary. On Snow, a double-CD concept album, they go for broke. Creatively, this is a new direction for the band in the sense that carrying out a sustained narrative of this magnitude stretches all compositional notion, as well as those surrounding production, arrangement, and consistency of voice. There is so much weight placed on each track to move a story forward, either expressionistically or narratively, that getting bogged down in it is always a risk. Happily, that is not the case here. Spock's Beard have taken all of their strengths instrumentally, lyrically, and vocally, and concentrated them in this effort about an albino boy on a noble, if idiosyncratic, quest. While concept albums have been done on much loftier notions, they seem to falter under their own weight, or the light of actual history. Here, Neal and Alan Morse, and their bandmates, use a much more subjective fantasy story, and create a spiritual, physical, ideological, and emotional set of circumstances that follow their protagonist through 26 songs. Musically, Snow is a wonder, it's full of nuance and texture, taut dynamics and lush arrangements, that are all, seemingly, of a piece,. While some Spock's Beard fans might have a hard time with the softer, gentler side of the band that is evidenced here, it would be tough to argue that this change of direction was both necessary and warranted. Spock's Beard has been pushing at their own boundaries for a while now, and with Snow, they shatter them and enter into the very promise of what progressive rock is always supposed to deliver: discovering some heretofore unknown sonic territory via the individual and collective focus of creating through the applied effort of one's best musical efforts. Snow is an allegory, it is an archetypal story that is ambitious in scope and redemptive in result, and is a thoroughly rewarding — if challenging — listen. — Thom Jurek
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