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Cast Away
Bass gets things underway here with a cool pattern of notes. That basis gets built upon to create the full musical treatment. Vocals join, and I'm reminded a little of a mix of Yes and Esquire. The track continues to grow and evolve from there. This is such classy progressive rock. The break around the three minute mark is pure magic. I love it so much. It eventually gives way to a return to the song proper. |
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Who Are You?
Starting with a tasty guitar part that has more of a rock and roll edge, this evolves out into more killer prog from there. We're taken through more twists and turns along this road. The Esquire reference is again valid, but this also has some healthy helpings of jazz built into it. I love the bass dominated break later. The guitar soloing on the section that follows that is really tasty, too. |
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Silently Dancing
There is a cool jazz meets quirky rock vibe to this cut. The vocal arrangement is so intriguing. I'm reminded a bit of Renaissance on this, but the Esquire thing is still present, too. There is a lot of unique territory in the mix, too. |
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Wide Open Sky
Appropriately, this song has a wide-open feeling to it. The progressive rock vibes are of the melodic variety, and there is a nice balance between the mellower and more rocking modes. Some of the mellower sections bring some definite jazz to bear. The instrumental break has a CGT or King Crimson sort of circulation vibe to it. |
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Leaving Light
Acoustic guitar and vocals get things underway here. It builds very gradually, and again I'm reminded of Renaissance. This has some almost mellow space rock moments. It's a cool melodic prog piece with a healthy helping of jazz in the mix. |
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Satellites
I love the unusual guitar presence on this. The track is more art rock than progressive. It's unique and so intriguing. There is a particularly cool bass break later, and that gives way to more traditional, if understated, prog sounds. This turns more outside of the box as it evolves. |
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Page By Page
At more than ten-minutes long, this is the epic of the disc. Piano gets it underway, and it explodes out from there after a time to some high energy modern progressive rock. The vocals come over the top bringing a lot of magic with them. I love the guitar solo that flies outward and upward later. It's a real powerhouse. Around the halfway mark, after several shifts and changes, it drops to a mellower, tentative movement. The vocals return over that after a while, and it builds slowly. It eventually gets back to the song proper and continues in that vein for the rest of the number. It's quite a cool ride. |
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Neon Burning
Progressive rock merges with jazz on this tune. This is a fairly constant piece, but it's also strong and decidedly proggy. It seems to almost bring the album back down to earth. |
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