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(Central Park) - "Reflected"

Reviewed by:

"Philip Wooldridge"- (Ravenheart Music)

Genre:
(Female Fronted) {Rock/Symphonic-Metal}-(Music)
Country:
Germany
Length:
NA
Release Date:
1/18/11
Band Members: Jannine Pusch - Vocals Jochen Scheffter - Keyboards, Organs
  Hans Ochs - Guitars York Von Wittern - Bass
  Artur Silber - Drums
     
Track Listing: 1.)-Guns 'R' Us
9.)-The Last Tear
  2.)-Free Fall  
  3.)-White Princess  
  4.)- Another Part  
 

5.)-Vision of Cassandra:I. Vision

 

 
  6.)-II. Doom (Winterstorm)  
  7.)-III. Awakening  
  8.)-Path of Mercy  

Review:

They were founded back in 1981 and split in 1989, but reformed in 2006 inspired by a Yes concert and at long last released their début album. The singer bailed out and so they recruited Jannine Pusch who has an incredibly versatile voice, it's like listening to a compendium of famous singers. The band is therefore reborn for this brand new release. Opener 'Guns R Us' with it's groovy Mars like motif is like a heavier cross between ELP and Marillion with Jannine sounding like a female Fish. The funky 'Free Fall' is like Grace Jones gone prog, then onto the lovely 'White Princess' where Jannine turns into Kate Bush backed by Marillion with ELP making an appearance. On the next one, 'Another Part' with it's delightful piano, she sounds like Carly Simon, with a touch of The Carpenters and Pink Floyd. By this time I'm thoroughly impressed and really enjoying the music, but then things take a turn for the weird with the 3 part 'Vision of Cassandra', fair enough they are a prog band after all, but it stays weird for the full 12 minutes of 'Vision' and for the following couple of numbers, it's like Barbara Streisand and Bette Midler being lost in a surreal nightmare, it's so far out it's sideways. I'm really scratching my head, what's going on? 'Path of Mercy' is far more like it, a Marillion/Pink Floyd/ELP type dramatic number that could have come off The Wall. 'The Last Tear' start like a gentle torch song with Jannine as a whispering Marlene Dietrich over gentle piano and Pink Floyd, the song then blows up, and it ends up in the West End. The other baffling thing is the cover art which must be one of the most boring covers of all time, what were they thinking? If you enjoy top quality classic melodic prog then this is a real treat, but unless you like the avant garde you might want to skip the Cassandra tracks. Should be readily available from most decent stores from the 28th of January, on reflection I will give it 8.25 out of 10.

 

 

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