Country: Greece
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Release date: September 5, 2012
Tracklist:
1.Pushing The Sky 06:16
2.The Great Outdoors 05:43
3.Entry Wound 02:58
4.Subconscious 04:36
5.You've Met Someone 05:01
6.Better Halves 06:22
7.Hinder 07:04
8.Open Wound 06:37
9.The Glacier 02:16
10.Our Time Expires 05:24
11.September 02:04
12.Exit Wound 10:08
13.Say Goodnight 07:51
Line-up:
Spyros Charmanis - vocals, guitar, bass, piano/keys, oboe, percussion, drums programming
Special appearances:
Dimitris Tsoukas - Davul, darbuka, bendir (throughout)
Melina Kyritsi - vocals (You've Met Someone, Say Goodnight)
Sofia Nassiou - vocals (Say Goodnight)
Nikolas Sideris - piano and orchestral arrangements (Our Time Expires)
Catherine Charmanis - accordion (Exit Wound)
Thodoris Papadimitriou - cello, recorded and mixed by Nikodemos Triaridis (Say Goodnight)
Description/Reviews:
Charmanis describes this as a concept album about an unnamed character going through a journey of good intentions, bad decisions, emotional fracture and resolution until the final track which is, appropriately enough, a song of moving-on entitled Say Good Night.
It's not exactly The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway or even something mid-period Floyd-like but his background in Beatles is evident (some classy George Harrison-like slide figures) as much as a sense of hefty rock. It's a mid-point between many influences but comes off as something of his own...What also makes this interesting is that Charmanis keeps you both outside the character but also drawn in. With very little assistance (guests on cello, occasional vocals, piano) this is quite a grand but sharply focused conception and he can bring as much seriously disturbing sky-falling guitar crunch as elevating resolution.
Read the whole review by Graham Reid at elsewhere.co.nz
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