Pilgrym
Pilgrimage
Transubstans Records
2004
This one’s good! In general the sound of the group is close to prog rock, but cannot be confined to that, as the band adds many AOR elements and much synths to create a soundtrack-like music. Although we are talking about prog rock, the structure of the songs is (most of the times) plain and “understandable” by all. This means that the album does not target only the prog freaks. However we should mention that the large part of it is instrumental, with the voice appearing only when needed.
If you have listened to Tangent’s CD, you know what to expect. Camel meets Marillion meets Survivor in a great musical journey that never ends. What strikes the attention are the vocal melodies that (when appear) are really catchy and stick to your head for hours. I remember when I first listened to the opus “Circus of the Absurd” I kept singing the refrain for hours. But above all the album succeeds in creating what prog rock is supposed to: feelings of melancholy, ascension and purgatory... offering us some small ports of wisdom. Just push play and the internal journey begins. “Welcome to the show”. This is at least an...
If you have listened to Tangent’s CD, you know what to expect. Camel meets Marillion meets Survivor in a great musical journey that never ends. What strikes the attention are the vocal melodies that (when appear) are really catchy and stick to your head for hours. I remember when I first listened to the opus “Circus of the Absurd” I kept singing the refrain for hours. But above all the album succeeds in creating what prog rock is supposed to: feelings of melancholy, ascension and purgatory... offering us some small ports of wisdom. Just push play and the internal journey begins. “Welcome to the show”. This is at least an...