Daymoon

Michael Baryshnikov написал(а) к All в Nov 16 12:10:26 по местному времени:

Нello All!

Залит Daymoon/(2016)CruzQuebrada

Редкий гость - португальская прогрессив-рок-группа.
Это - их третий альбом. Я не слышал их предыдущих дисков, но этот написан под влиянием Пинкфлойда и есропейских зюль и чамбер-рок групп.
Музыка, в основном, депрессивно-взрывная, вокал, в основном, никакой, но музыка красивая.

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Daymoon biography

Led by Fred LESSING, DAYMOON started out in the early 80s as a Portuguese prog band called Dead Landscape, but the band quit after a few years of battling against the mainstream. While all other band members moved into more commercial music, Fred Lessing kept on making prog and recorded three solo albums under the moniker DAYMOON. Unfortunately, none of these albums ever reached a finished stage.

2009 finally saw a proper band emerging, and DAYMOON began performing live. In 2012, Russian label Mals released the band's first album, All Tomorrows, a collection of love songs for Fred's wife; the album was post-produced by and features Andy TILLISON of The Tangent and PO90. This will was followed by a musical history of the universe, "Fabric Of Space Divine" in 2013, and then "Cruz Quebrada" in 2016 on their new label from Germany, Progressive Promotion Records.

This latest album speaks of the dark times the band's mentor went through after his wife died of cancer in 2012, and all proceeds of the album go to pan-European cancer fighters Europacolon.

The band is currently working on the next album, with the working title "Bible of Dreams", which will be mostly if not entirely instrumental, and is making plans for a rock opera called "The Currrybears".

Line-up:

Fred Lessing - electric & acoustic guitar, flute & woodwinds, vocals
Bruno Evangelista - keyboards, guitar, lead vocals
Andre Marques - acoustic & electric drums, keyboards, guitars, vocals
Adriano Pereira - woodwinds & reeds, keyboards, percussion, acoustic guitar, vocals

(c) Fred Lessing, Portugal, PA
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Line-up / Musicians - Fred Lessing / vocals, electric, acoustic & bass guitar, flute, baroque recorder, keyboards, percussion, angklung, African xylophone, blues harp, field recordings
- Andre Marques / acoustic & electronic drums, assorted percussion, keyboards, vocals, electric, acoustic & bass guitar, field recordings
- Bruno Evangelista / vocals
- Adriano Pereira / clarinet
With:
- Paulo Chagas / wind instruments
- Luca Calabrese / trumpet
- Nuno Flores / viola, violin
- Thomas Olsson / electric guitar
- Rita Simoes / vocals
- Trevor Lever / spoken words
- Simon Нarris / spoken words
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(c) Review by Windhawk, PA

Portuguese project DAYMOON is the creative vehicle of composer and musician Fred Lessing. Нe has been creating material for well over a quarter of a century, but didn't choose to start releasing any of it until 2011. "Cruz Quebrada" is the third studio album to be issued under the Daymoon moniker, and was released through the German label Progressive Promotion Records in the spring of 2016.

Daymoon's third studio album "Cruz Quebrada" comes across as an emotionally laden production, at times harrowingly so, to the extent that the raw undercurrents of emotion manages to overcome slightly weaker aspects in terms of structure and cohesion, mix and production as well as the lead vocals. Those who tend to enjoy bands that explore similar territories to what Pink Floyd did in the mid to late 70's appear as a key audience for this album, and then especially those who enjoy folk music details, a select few pastoral sequences and occasional chaotic, dramatic instrument effects, used to expand these boundaries.
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(c) Review by DamoXt7942, PA

DAYMOON's creation "Cruz Quebrada" released in 2016 can be called as another treasure casket for innovative imagination. It's quite a tough work for us to classify this album into a subgenre because of a obvious musical diversity upon the sound world ... psychedelic, avantgarde, jazz rock, crossover to pop ... what a variation in Fred's inner space. Very splendid lots of heartwarming moments can be heard even whilst minor key melody lines like reminders of serious pressure are launched.

Without any suspicion I cannot help feeling this multiplicity over musical genres should be Daymoon's brilliant mindscape itself. We can hear a tragic movement at a point, a pleasant vibe at another, or something like mental anguish ... such an aggregation of crying heart can be touched via the masterpiece suite "The River" full of unsettled mind between life and death, and this phenomenon would make us consider unavoidable events of life.

Quite sensitive and fragile mind whisper can be heard amongst massively various rock elements. Wondering why it be hard to digest this album comprehensively ... guess there might be a mass of Fred's "humanity" in my humble opinion, and this might be the reason we cannot digest his melodic message easily but directly absorb it without ourselves. Fred's strong intention for "humanity" is there, not simple nor easy to understand, that would amaze us apparently. Yes apparently I love this stuff.
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Инджой!
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WBR, Michael Baryshnikov.

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