[prog-rock, psychedelic rock] (2019) The Silence - Metaphysical
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(2019) The Silence - Metaphysical Feedback
Review:
After a three-year break from recording, guitarist Masaki Batoh reassembled his psych-prog-acid folk ensemble The Silence. Their time away was productive yet fraught with change: Organist (and former Ghost bandmate) Kazuo Ogino is no longer a member; he appears selectively as a guest. Bassist Jan Shotaro Stigter also left to pursue his various solo projects and has been replaced by Taiga Yamazaki. Drummer Futoshi Okano and flutist/ baritone sax man Ryuichi Yoshida remain. Yamazaki’s “Yokushuri” is labyrinthine, a nearly gothic psychedelia that eventually explodes with progressive instrumental interplay. Despite spiky guitar arpeggios worthy of Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band, Okano’s “Lightning Struck Baby Born” is built on a riff of crescendos and offers an organ break worthy of Brian Auger. The set’s lone cover, a doomy, foreboding read of Pearls Before Swine’s “Surrealist Waltz,” contains new lyrics from its composer Tom Rapp (at Batoh’s request) that were penned on his deathbed. An animated group crescendo introduces Yoshida’s “The Crystal World,” but’s a canard. His flute leads organ, drumkit, and strummed guitars in a majestic, yet slightly off-kilter, processional rock tune reminiscent of the mid-section of “In the Court of the Crimson King.” A gorgeous flute solo and acid-drenched guitar both squall before returning to a slow march in conclusion. Interestingly, Metaphysical Feedback is easily the most deliberate and disciplined of the Silence’s records thus far but conversely, it’s his most musically adventurous and sonically expansive. Metaphysical Feedback marks the sound of a band fully aware of and exploiting its potential.
Media Report:
Genre: prog-rock, psychedelic rock
Source: CD
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Review:
After a three-year break from recording, guitarist Masaki Batoh reassembled his psych-prog-acid folk ensemble The Silence. Their time away was productive yet fraught with change: Organist (and former Ghost bandmate) Kazuo Ogino is no longer a member; he appears selectively as a guest. Bassist Jan Shotaro Stigter also left to pursue his various solo projects and has been replaced by Taiga Yamazaki. Drummer Futoshi Okano and flutist/ baritone sax man Ryuichi Yoshida remain. Yamazaki’s “Yokushuri” is labyrinthine, a nearly gothic psychedelia that eventually explodes with progressive instrumental interplay. Despite spiky guitar arpeggios worthy of Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band, Okano’s “Lightning Struck Baby Born” is built on a riff of crescendos and offers an organ break worthy of Brian Auger. The set’s lone cover, a doomy, foreboding read of Pearls Before Swine’s “Surrealist Waltz,” contains new lyrics from its composer Tom Rapp (at Batoh’s request) that were penned on his deathbed. An animated group crescendo introduces Yoshida’s “The Crystal World,” but’s a canard. His flute leads organ, drumkit, and strummed guitars in a majestic, yet slightly off-kilter, processional rock tune reminiscent of the mid-section of “In the Court of the Crimson King.” A gorgeous flute solo and acid-drenched guitar both squall before returning to a slow march in conclusion. Interestingly, Metaphysical Feedback is easily the most deliberate and disciplined of the Silence’s records thus far but conversely, it’s his most musically adventurous and sonically expansive. Metaphysical Feedback marks the sound of a band fully aware of and exploiting its potential.
Media Report:
Genre: prog-rock, psychedelic rock
Source: CD
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits