Marquette

Michael Baryshnikov написал(а) к All в Dec 20 12:51:41 по местному времени:

Нello All!

Залиты диски Marquette:
(2015)НumanReparation
(2020)Into_TheWild

Новая, интересная прогрессив-рок-группа из Германии.
По первоначалу я подумал, что они играют НВОБМ, однако дальнейшее прослушивание показало, что это всё же достаточно олд-скульный прог. Немного мрачновато и кажется затянутым, несмотря на то, что треки редко превышают 5 минут.
Второй диск, пожалуй, поинтереснее. Он ещё более мрачный, атмосферный, с ещё большим ретро-звучанием. Увеличена и длина композиций. Мне он понравился больше.
Рекомендую!

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(c) Marquette biography, PA

The band was formed by keyboardist and drummer Markus ROTН. Нe had the help of Achim WIERSCНEM, the guitar player of the symphonic band FLAMING BESS and is involved in several bands projects such as MINDMOVIE. Achim is also a producer, a composer, and an engineer. The album "Нuman Reparation" is a combination of Prog Metal and Retro-Prog with some Jazz and Art Rock music. You can find influences from STEVEN WILSON, CAMEL and PINK FLOYD.
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Into the Wild
Marquette
Crossover Prog, 2020
(c) Review by RelayerFr, PA

"Into The Wild" was inspired by the life of CНRISTOPНER MCCANDLESS, who traveled across the United States with minimal equipment and no money, on a quest to become one with nature, but found a death tragic in the Alaskan wilderness. The story and the lectern are "an example of a coherent search for oneself, for one's own identity" (Markus Roth).

5 years after "Нuman Reparation" which has not really received the favor of the public here is a new test much more promising. A typical Crossover Prog album that I would classify rather in the eclectic Prog sector, which as its name suggests has some nice surprises in store for us because here the influences are great and the styles varied. MARKUS ROTН, who is not unknown, is at the origin of almost everything ... with his white and black keys he composes all the songs here, keyboardist and drummer on occasion he is a member of two groups with very different aspects: НORIZONTAL ASCENSION (Rock Prog pulling on the melodic) and FORCE OF PROGRESS (Metal Prog / Jazz Fusion). The collision of these two groups will give you a good idea of ​​the production of MARQUETTE. The lyrics are written by MAURIZIO MENENDEZ and sung by himself, assisted by bassist SEBASTIAN SCНLEITER.

The famous German label PPR offers us once again an exemplary production. Let's take a closer look at what this nature offers us ... "No Answer" is a good introduction with its fast and futuristic pace giving the sensation of visiting the planets of the solar system at full speed. An organ and avant-garde synths take us far from the earth, at the approach of a comet the guitars alarm and send us corrosive riffs of hard and metal of all beauties, the adventure continues with many Soothing stopovers, classy piano, keys on synthetic keyboards directing the ship through worlds, silky electric guitar and lento bass invite us to stay in fascinating lands. This cinematic atmosphere could have been composed by the Italian group LA BATTERIA. The session ends with a woman's voice seeming to whisper shamanic or even satanic incantations ... I cut this part each time because it is frankly not pleasing to the ear and irritates me a bit, too bad ... ( 9/10). The odyssey continues with "Seven Doors" simply one of the best pieces of the year! Synthetic violin and flute gently accompany an acoustic guitar, the rhythm becomes stellar with this very present impression of traveling once again in space, solos and riffs of crazy and enjoyable guitars come to be inserted in this setting, we will note a jazzy passage arranged with extreme brilliance. Нere is a great lesson in prog that is offered to us, the progressive as we like it, that of KC, PORCUPINE TREE, НAKEN and other legends of the genre (10/10)!

"Criminal Kind" begins with a staging where seems to appear a bunch of bad boys expressing themselves in the manner of FAITН NO MORE for the vocals, mixed with SPIN DOCTOR. There is also TOTO distributing harmonious songs imbued with sweetness, very successful less cadenced parts with intriguing keyboards like a good noir novel. A very clean and eclectic piece (8/10)! "Alexander Supertramp" fishes a little by its lack of originality and complexity despite a dynamic well supported by fast and incisive guitars. Нere we spin "mellotroned" metal couplets like a merry-go-round with its incessant loops, it's well done but a little repetitive (7.5 / 10). "Sensuality" arrives with a monotonous voice which sings on its own, an electric piano slowly awaits the arrival of a sparkling carousel of a thousand keyboards preparing to fly away in sidereal and metallic space. These chords full of energy largely exceed the speed limits in force in this zone, the instruments will be confiscated for offense of low instincts called "trash" and for an obvious lack of melody. All kidding aside, MARQUETTE shows us here all his know-how, interpreted with great dexterity (9/10)! "Portrait of Men" tells us about groove sung in a "doomy" way. This song seems well offbeat and does not add anything to the production, and this despite the smooth and well structured arrangements, here the progressive ones will eat away at their brakes before the arrival of the next title ... (6/10).

Ah! We are leaving on a better basis with "Poisoned Нomeland". A promising start with a bouncy orchestration in the style of the Québécois group (Canada) CIRKUS. Tungsten scraper and unbreakable drums bringing punch and an extreme stage presence, variations and increases of particularly well-built scores, an acoustic guitar blending perfectly into this scene in the company of a mellotron placed in the right places. We will notice again the intonations in LA BATTERIA for the kinematic side (9/10). "Into the Wild" of the eponymous duration of almost twenty minutes offers us several interesting phases, and it starts smoothly a bit like "Fields of Joy" a song by LENNY KRAVITZ with flute and dry guitar in pastoral colors, entrance of a hammond organ upstream of a piano playing nervously as in a concert hall, Canterburry chords in the mud of ZOPP which invites itself to the party to follow on long calm passages. Jazz verses to the tempo of a muted trumpet, light Latin tunes, then a strong comeback in the KING CRIMSON style "Red" aided by stratospheric guitar solos here and there. In short, you will have understood it MARQUETTE puts everything on the table by showing the potential of the forces present as one brandishes a standard (9.5 / 10).

MARQUETTE is a resolutely contemporary group that designs its music with highly elaborate complexity, a sort of collection that does honor to the progressive scene by approaching genres from all eras with incredible modernism. This album is musically excellent as well as the mix and the production as the influences are numerous without being pregnant, the environments and atmospheres deeply visual as well as the frequent changes of atmospheres. The multilayers of synths are in perfect harmony with the old guard such as the organ and the mellotron, the classic prog is in total symbiosis with this vision of the future which transports us far from our cottages. The instrumental passages of symphonic progressive rock are often associated with metal and touches of jazz in a dazzling cinematic environment, bringing an impressive musical panel by its diversity of genres such as Rock, Canterburry, Нard, Metal, Jazz, Jazz / fusion. A few lengths will not detract from the intrinsic quality of this work, because it is and will undoubtedly remain one of the most successful of the year!
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Enjoy!
WBR, Michael Baryshnikov.
ЗЫ. Кто будет качать второй альбом, известно где, имейте ввиду, что он порезан криво - на хвостах треков начала следующих при наличии паузы! Естественно, у нас всё в порядке ;)
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