Ardour review 20208/24/2023 ![]() This is why theĪlbum is so infuriating! You're FORCED to listen to the bad stuff to get to the good.Ĭombine that with the fact that this contains what surely must be the worst sets of They're ALL like that, withĪmazingly excellent and abysmally bad sections sitting side-by-side. The big problem is, you can't pick out any one track. Saccharine, exemplifying the worst tendencies of American prog-rock. Some passages are downright embarrassing-derivative and Really do add an extra dimension to the music, some of the finest moments of anyĪmerican prog album ever. Some passages of this album are blistering, unique and amazing, with fiery guitarworkĪnd dual keyboards (Hammond, Moog, piano, Clavinet, Mellotron/Chamberlin, etc.) that I guess you could call this the NorthĪmerican equivalent to TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS. One of the more infuriating albums out there. Posted Tuesday, J| Review this album | Report (Review #37901) Definitively a nice listen and worth for 3.5 stars I would say! Man, an excellent versatile composition with great rhythmic section.ĬONCLUSION: As some of my co-reviewers I wouldn't regard this album here as anĮssential one but nevertheless as a quite good one and worth to be checked out byįans of this sub-genre. HIGHLIGHTS: The already mentioned Everyman and The Dimension Giving them a bit of their own style and leading to a quite enjoyable result. ETHOS combined all these influences with a rather US-typical looseness ![]() ![]() Most of the compositions are rather intricate and playful having a multi. Only detect in the quirky guitar riffs of Everyman and by the overall frequent Keyboards like piano, Mellotron and synths. Rickenbacher bass but also the hymnic compositions and heavy use of different sorts of Obvious influence of them was certainly YES, not only due to the Squire-alike IMHO the presence of this influence is rather minor in their music. I've read somewhere that they claimed to be America's answer to KING CRIMSON, but Less successful to emulate the kind of symphonic prog done by the seminal British ones. Posted Sunday, | Review this album | Report (Review #19037)ĮTHOS was another one of those US bands from the 70's who tried more or "Spirit of Music" has some rather dumb lyrics lamenting about how the rock scene isn't the same in 1976 as it was in 1964, which is really odd, given they were playing prog rock, which is hardly supposed to sound like anything bands were doing in '64! And like the rest of the album, "Spirit of Music" is prog rock.īasically this whole album is like many of the prog rock albums I own: decent enough, worth having, but not essential. The lyrics seeme to more speak of Atlantis in the present tense, rather than the famous rise and destruction (like what EARTH & FIRE did three years before with their "Atlantis" album or ELOY did one year later with "Ocean"). "Atlanteans", as you might guess, is the song describing the cover. The music can be a bit on the clichéd side, lyrics included, like the opening "Intrepid Travellers". The cover to the LP has an Atlantean theme. The lyrics all have that cosmic sci-fi theme that seemed to be a common theme to many prog bands in 1976. The vocals still sound quite American, but there band had the benefit of two keyboardists, in which Moog and Mellotron are the most dominant. This album isn't exactly what I call essential, this is an American band trying to be European, but still sounding American (at least KANSAS had the sense of sounding American). The band seemed to be lead by guitarist/vocalist Wil Sharpe, the rest of the band consisted of keyboardist Michael Ponczek, drummer Mark Richards, bassist Brad Stephenson, and keyboardist L. But they were lucky and got signed to Capitol Records, and went to New York and got busy recording this album. Kinda strange to see a prog band coming from an area of the country that tends to be conservative. ETHOS was a little known American prog rock band that came from an unlikely place: Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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