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Friday, January 28, 2022

Bresk "A Journey Through The Life Of Peder Balke 1804-1887"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Instrumental Symphonic, Retro Prog
Label: Drabant Music - DM149LP
Format: vinyl, digital
Release date: January 28, 2022 
Tracklist
1. Awakening (1:32) 
2. Napoleonic Wartime Overture (5:00) 
3. The Mountain (5:12) 
4. Sailing The Northern Coast (4:38) 
5. North Cape Arrival (2:43) 
6. Hangin' Out With The King (3:04) 
7. The Revolution Of 1848 (5:37) 
8. Balkeby (4:08) 
9. The Fire (5:01) 
10. The End (5:10) 

Total Time 42:05 

Line-up
Lars Christian Narum - keyboards, organ 
Jon Anders Narum - bass
Peder Narum - drums

Description/Review
What better backdrop for an album inspired by the likes of Rick Wakeman’s The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Bo Hansson’s Lord of the Rings? ... 
The result is unashamedly retro, harking back to Prog’s ‘Golden Age’ but with a contemporary edge – and it’s much better than the inspirations noted above. An impressionistic tour de force, at times it’s tightly arranged but with space for looser flights of fancy to describe Balke’s wandering through rural Norway, his journey to the French court, political upheavals in Europe and his altruistic development of the Balkeby area near Oslo, which was devastated by fire in 1879.
Read the full review by Jez Rowden at theprogressiveaspect.net

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