The idea isn't bad, the result is rather convincing, and the added incentive is enough to make The Road Back Home a worthy addition to a Flower Kings fan's collection, but do read on, because you should know what you're getting. This two-CD set is a compilation album – a theme compilation album, in fact…
Germany's Long Distance Calling approaches post-rock from a prog metal perspective. Avoid the Light, their second album, offers six mid-length pieces…
These guys have a good idea, and good chops to support it. As it is, Avoid the Light is a strong attempt at an alternative form of instrumental rock.~ Francois Couture. cduniverse.com
This CD culls four works written between 1982 and 1996 (all recorded in 1997-1998), revolving around the notion of a labyrinth and the poetic world of Jorge Luis Borges. All the pieces employ instrumentalist and composer Lawrence Casserley on live computer processing. The pièce de résistance is Labyrinth, featuring Simon Desorgher on flute………François Couture @ Allmusic
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso's third LP, Io Sono Nato Libero, was released only a few months after the impressive Darwin!, and featured the same lineup (brothers Vittorio and Gianni Nocenzi on keyboards, Rodolfo Maltese on guitar, Pierluigi Calderoni on drums, Renato d'Angelo on bass, and Francesco Di Giacomo on vocals). It yielded one classic track, "Non Mi Rompete," a beautiful Italian ballad that would be part of the band's set list for the rest of its life…
Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star (Penn), now bored and jaded in his retirement embarks on a quest to find his father's persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal now hiding out in the U.S. Learning his father is close to death, he travels to New York in the hope of being reconciled with him during his final hours, only to arrive too late. Having been estranged for over 30 years, it is only now in death that he learns the true extent of his father's humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS Officer Aloise Lange - an event he is determined to avenge.