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| Zseni reviews: Hungarian Prog Rock Album "Color" by Zsenicorpse 07/09/2006, 12:22am PDT | ||||
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| Before I left Caltrops last time, I got into a megasnit about prog rock and its stupidity.
Here's a prog rock album I've been playing to death recently. It's called "Color", from a Hungarian band called "Color". They're some kind of secret! Released in 1978, the album made absolutely no waves, but featured a completely off the chain drummer. He's utterly ignored in every review of the album I've found. The guy is a freak. Not a Yngwie Malmsteen riffage of the gods freak, but a drum instrumentalist, an expressive drummer. It's so uncommon! "A nap siet" unfolds on the ground laid out by his subtle and shifting work and "Elképzelt világ" toys with the concept of a march. "Jó lenne tudni" is a blandly pleasant ballad which I guess is an excuse in Hungary to start up a tempo, right around the 2:33 mark, which makes me think "he can't possibly keep that up." Anyway apart from the drummer I like this album's balance of twee fancy, earnest rock, and proggish instrumental cleverness. It's ornate but accessible. There's a lovely warm quality in the production. Aside from the 14-minute long "Panoptikum" - which ends the original album, the 3 tracks afterwards are bonuses - each song is short, to the point, full of texture and interesting musical structures. It's just as good played super loud on the porch as it is played quietly on headphones in one's bedroom at dusk. After a particularly nasty day at work, I find it is the only thing I want to listen to - good and loamy and elfy, a twilit soundtrack of shuffling, woebegone, Wizards-style armies travelling home. I really like Color. 96% perfect! I'm dinging it only for the awkward endings on some songs. |
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Zseni reviews: Hungarian Prog Rock Album "Color" by 07/09/2006, 12:22am PDT  Please get a job or something NT by 07/09/2006, 2:34am PDT Yes, quit this pesky "posting" NT by 07/09/2006, 2:50am PDT Hungarian Prog Rock. NT by 07/12/2006, 8:00pm PDT PS: yoogy malmsteen sucks. NT by 07/12/2006, 8:01pm PDT I'll upload some Warrant albums for you or something. NT by 07/13/2006, 12:21am PDT |
