Show Date: Friday, September 29, 2000
Show #154
2000 - volume 9



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Playlist:
# Artist Song (click to play) Album Year CD label My
Gnosis
Rating
1 Storm at Sunrise Moonrock Garden of Forgotten Ideals 2000 Gray Sky Records 11 (Alan's)
"Storm At Sunrise is a new project lead by Dave Gryder, who some of you may remember as the mastermind behind the album Covenant - Nature's Divine Reflection. Here he still plays drums & keyboards, and also sings. However, this is an album of progressive hard rock circa Deep Purple - Machine Head. Ernie Myers of the group Hands plays guitar. A fun trip in the wayback machine, get ready to ROCK! ;-) " - Alan Mallery
Storm at Sunrise
 
2 Shawn Persinger Hideous Kinky - Life in a Box Reasonable Horse 2000 E.H.P. Productions 10 (Alan's)
"Many of you know Shawn Persinger as guitarist for the band Boud Deun. Since then he has done quite a bit of travelling and performing as a solo artist. This album is quite different from Boud Deun, as it features him on acoustic guitar. Most of the tracks are instrumental, but a few have vocals. The lyrics he writes are quite interesting, imo. He seems to be influenced quite a bit by Leo Kottke. I saw him play most of the album this past spring in a restaurant here in town. See him if you can. Since most of the tracks are short, I've presented two tracks here, one instrumental and one with vocals." - Alan Mallery
Shawn Persinger
 
3 Ne Zhdali Bossa 2000 Turbo Tokyo Nov. 25, 1998 1999 Prospect Mira 9
Ne Zhdali, from Estonia & Russia, play an unusual avant progressive with horns & guitars as the prime melodic instruments. The music has the raw- edged quirkiness of Captain Beefheart mixed with a sound that is like an electrified oompah-band. "Weird, wild, schtuff".
Prospect Mira
 
4 AG Flek Rehradice - moravska lidova Tramtarie 1991 FT Records 7
I'm not sure why I thought this was from 1999 originally, but, I only just discovered it's from 1991. Oh well, too late, so here it is anyway. AG Flek, from the Czech Republic play a pleasant folk-rock with slight elements of progressivity. This song sample is an excellent cut above most of the rest of the album, though, with it's anthemic melody.
 
5 Stefan Dill Trio Path Stefan Dill Trio 2000 unreleased
Stefan is a versatile guitarist crossing many boundaries of music including electric improvised free-jazz/rock as well as introspective acoustic guitar pieces with a flamenco flair. On this current recording Stefan is joined by DAve Nielsen on bass and Dave Wayne on drums for some hard-edged fusion that brings to mind Sonny Sharrock among other explorative fusion guitarist. Stefan is looking for a record company, so if you know of any independent labels that release similar material, email him your suggestions.
stefan@norumba.com
Stefan Dill - Flamenco meets free jazz improv
 
6 Dreams of Sanity Masquerade - Interlude Masquerade 1999 Hall of Sermon 11 (Alan's)
"Dreams of Sanity is an Austrian band who present a very dramatic and orchestrated progmetal sound. This is their second album, and I believe is a concept album based on the "Phantom of the Opera". While their first album featured two vocalists, now they only have one, but she has an excellent voice. This album features strong production, with songs shifting between power and beauty. " - Alan Mallery Hall of Sermon
 
7 Ruja Oled Sa Jarv Need ei vaata tagasi... 1999 HyperElwood 12
Ruja is like the mother of all Estonian rock music. The band dates back to the early 1970's and has had dozens of musicians pass through that have gone on to start other progressive music bands in Estonia, such as In Spe. Over such a long history with different musicians, you can imagine how much the music has changed over the years, ranging from rockabilly inflected rock music to complex progressive rock of the highest order. Just last year, this 5 CD box-set was released which compiles material over their entire history, most of which is previously un-released in any format. The 5 CD's of the box set are now also available in 2 separate sets of 2 & 3 CD's each. Even if a lot of the material is not overtly progressive, it is all largely enjoyable.
Ruja boxed set - review
Estonian Progressive Rock Webpage
 


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