As the Forest Field website states clearly “Forest Field is not a band. Forest Field is a project.” In the way that the famed Alan Parsons Project was able to use various and rotating musicians and performers over the “bands’” discography while always availing itself of its founders and creators Parsons and Eric Wolfson, so …
Steven Wilson – HAND. CANNOT. ERASE. (Kscope, 2015). Tracks: First Regret; 3 Years Older; Hand Cannot Erase; Perfect Life; Routine; Home Invasion; Regret #9; Transience; Ancestral; Happy Returns; Ascendant Her On Geddy Lee I. Rating: 9.5/10 If you’re looking for a review comparing HAND. CANNOT. ERASE. to any of Wilson’s other solo albums, his work …
The Neal Morse Band, The Grand Experiment (Radiant Records, 2015), Special Edition. Tracks: The Call; The Grand Experiment; Waterfall; Agenda; Alive Again; New Jerusalem (Freedom is Coming); Doomsday Destiny; MacArthur Park; The Creation (Live); and Reunion (Live). Birzer rating: 9.5/10. “The Call” begins with a multipart gospel/Trevor Rabin-Yes era harmony before breaking into a wild …
Continue reading A Grand Experiment, indeed. Morse Conquers All.
Review of Fractal Mirror, “Garden of Ghosts” (privately released, 2014). The Band: Leo Koperdraat; Ed van Haagen; and Frank Urbaniak. Art by Brian Watson and layout by Frank Urbaniak. Additional personnel: Brent Kull (mixer); Larry Fast; Don Fast; and Andre de Boer. Songs: House of Wishes; The Phoenix; Lost in Clouds; Solar Flare; The Hive; …
Continue reading Neither Bending Nor Conforming: Fractal Mirror Comes of Age
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