Karfagen

The album continues deliciously the musical flavour created on Antony's earlier acclaimed work in 2021 'Chameleon Shapeshifter' as always no musical boundaries exist with his writing and his production skills are now envied by his musician peers 'Land Of Chameleons' is sure to be one of the most important album releases of 2024 as usual with Antony's music to appear in our genres bible site 'prog archives' top prog albums list at the end of this year.

This wonderful 2024 Symphonic Prog album from KARFAFGEN continues the story of the highly acclaimed 'Messages From Afar: First Contact' album!

Following on from his most successful period to date with the critically acclaimed album Karfagen 7 and the European "Breaking Free" tour Antony Kalugin returned re-energized to his studio to finish work on what completes a defining 2016 for the musical mastermind, all the Karfagen trade marks are here and as with all the best who done it novelists where the music is going next the listener never quite knows. The king of the instrumental unleashes a monsoon of melodies whilst captivating with a constant flow of changing musical genres as Spektra takes us on another Karfagen fairytale ride.

With limited facilities Antony Kalugin has recreated a real live band sound of his festival appearance at Crescendo France in August 2012. The bootleg is shot in 16:9 format and comes with a first class sound quality recording provided by the Festival team of Manu Mure, Matthieu Calmels and Arnaud Houpert. And you can experience the whole occasion via the DVD. Just to get to Crecendo the band travelled from deepest Ukraine in two cars sleeping in them overnight on the three day journey. The DVD really is a throw back to how music DVDs used to be made before they got overcooked and presented as a perfect form of art, taking away that excitement and edginess of artists live performance…