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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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 Posted - 21/07/2012 : 13:47:20
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Well that is debatable ....but this Polish progressive ensemble of amazing musicians is just amazing.
ALBION
The Place...very Gilmour styled lead guitar..in a good way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnl4nysnlG8
Albion biography
Neo Prog band from Poland with female vocals. Very beautiful and melodic compositions in a nice atmosphere. "Albion" mixes short and long compositions, and sometimes the influence of bands like MARILLION become very clear. Close to the powerful neo Progressive rock, ALBION reminds of MARILLION, IQ and JADIS, with a Steve HACKETT style of guitar sound and subtle keyboard parts.
ALBION came into existence in 1992 when members of two dissolving bands from Cracow decided to start a new band. At the beginning the band consisted of the following four members: Jerzy Antczak (guitars), Krzysztof Malec (keyboards), Pawe#322; Konieczny (drums) and Tomasz Kaczmarczyk (bass guitar).
After a short period of time joined Anna Batko taking the role of the vocalist.
This lineup started to work on the material which was to appear on ALBION's first release. It was issued in 1994 under the title "Survival Games" by Art-Rock but only on a cassette (it was reissued next year on CD without the permission of the band by an italian label Mellow Records). During the recording process the bass guitarist Tomasz Kaczmarczyk left the band and his part was played by Pawe#322; Konieczny who at this moment took the bassist's role leaving the drums to Grzegorz Olszowski.
After the release of the cassette the band got a new manager Aleksander Król who, along with Sick Records Europe, decided to issue the band's new material on a cassette and CD. The selftitled album was issued in 1995. After this release ALBION took part in many festivals and concerts in Poland.
When composing pieces for the next album another changes in the lineup took place - Grzegorz Olszowski was replaced by Rafa#322; Paszcz behind the drums and the vocalist's role passed to Katarzyna Sobkowicz. The album "Broken Hopes" appeared only after 10 years in 2005 issued by Lynx Music...
4 stars -- I got my first taste of this band recently with the self titled album from 1995 followed shortly after by Broken Hopes...These discs have been in high rotation since then. I now want more and have been searching high and low for their CDs of course not to be found in the traditional retail environment.
Enough ramblings about my quest let's focus on the music. Lush arrangements great guitar work gorgeous vocals inventive composing and never boring kind of sums it up in my mind. One of the really interesting Neo-prog bands in my humble opinion. I would welcome that kind of album any day and wish more surprises like Albion will turn up for me :) Marillion influences can be heard throughout like in a lot of Neo Progressive bands but Albion manage to maintain their own identity to keep our interest going. --progressive files
Shadow...live 1995
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT3yFm73D1M
Scarecrow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFSPMleaHHs
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ALBION-maybe best Neo folk-rock Progressive
