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Arcansiel

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Released

1990

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1

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5

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fishhead2

Sep 11, 2004
[Rating1057118]

The second album of Arcansiel  was released
simultaneously with the first album in 1990 but still sounds great
today.  This is stuff for fans of Genesis with Peter Gabriel
but there’s also pop influences. The music is gentle, romantic and
delicate. It’s almost unbelievable the duration of the opening
track is more than 20 minutes. You’ll hardly notice it, “I’m still
searching” is full of mood swings and great melodies that stay in
your head once you’ve heard it. The rhythms are quite original.
Only the rhythms Saga uses on their first albums are comparable
with this. Especially the keyboards are played in the staccato
form. Some excerpts do sound a bit too technical but soon it
changes into an emotional climax.  Mark Kelly or  Mike
Oldfield comes to mind when hearing the creepy keyboard melodies
on the first two tracks. “Your only treasure” is a nice ballad
with great solos from guitar and saxophone towards the end. The
sax seems to fit to the sound of Arcansiel perfectly, sometimes it
seems John Helliwell is a member of this band. Every instrument is
very well played, just listen to the great guitar solos and drum
parts. Maybe the voice of Marco Galletti does sound a bit thin
every now and then. A better mix could solve this.  There’s a
jazz approach to the final track “empty pages” just before the
melodies from the first track return to close the circle. When
compared to the first album the production is a lot better and the
songs are more accessible. To my humble opinion this is a good
album with great symphonical moments. I don’t know if the band
still exists but I do know Arcansiel recently re-recorded some of
these songs for a compilation album.

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Dec
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Jan
18, 2004 // CD

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Dec
17, 2003 // CD

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