An Endless Sporadic "Magic Machine"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Rock/Metal
Format: CD, digital
Release date: September 16, 2016
Tracklist: 

1. The Departure
2. Magic Machine
3. Galactic Tactic
4. Finding The Falls
5. The Assembly
6. Agile Descent 
7. Sky Run
8. Through The Fog
9. Sea Voyage
10. Impulse I

Line-up: 
Zach Kamins - Guitars, Piano, Synths, Organ, Wurlitzer, Auxiliary Percussion, Banjo, Tuba, Conference Recorder
   With
Jonas Reingold (The Flower Kings, Karmakanic) - Bass
Michael Iago Mellender (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) - Percussion Guitar, Marimba, Glockenspiel, Hand­Hammered Lasagna Warming Trays, Metals, Trumpet, Auxiliary Percussion
Navene K (Animals As Leaders) - Drums
Chris Bleth - Piccolo, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, English Horn, Recorders
Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater) - Keyboards (7, 8)
Roine Stolt (The Flower Kings) - Guitar (9)Amparo Edo Biol - French Horn
Aija Mattson - French Horn
Paul Cartwright - Violin
Mischa Lefkowitz - Violin
Matt Cooker - Cello

Description/Reviews: 

Magic Machine is a showcase for mind-bending musicianship and rich expressiveness via avante garde film-score soundscapes. An abstract journey through different styles of music and environments, the album offers a coruscating kaleidoscope of colours and joy, flashes of stylistic innovation featuring ensemble work that is staggeringly packed full of drama yet still meaningful from a compositional standpoint. This is an aurally challenging album with an experimentally wide sound palette, but as a whole is assuredly palatable, mesmerising and resides in a class paralleled by none.

Media/Samples 
Bandcamp
The Departure 
Teaser

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