I
only caught about half of this really cool concert due to other bands I had not
seen before were playing that I really wanted to see. It is great that most of
the concert is represented here in 5 pieces of music spread over 3 sides of
vinyl. Sulpur valley Dawn (maybe this
inspired the album over??) starts things off and you really feel like you are
there in the audience waiting for it to all start as the band slowly get things
going and you can hear the audience chatting before Mattias brings in the first
guitar lines and the psychedelic trip begins! About 4mins the drums and bass
really kick in and off we go with some great psychedelic guitar phrasing and
wah guitar that flows so effortlessly over the cool bass lines of Ronny. At
11mins Nicklas puts down his guitar and switches over to the digital mellotron
for a nice space change. The end is very intense with Ronny and drummer Daniel,
really killing it.. Side 2 starts with Ancient Caravan, an mystical Eastern
inspired piece that slowly grows into something else. There is an amazing
guitar solo by Mattias at the end of this track when Nicklas reverts back to
the mellotron for some haunting voice like sounds. Very cool.. The Mountain
Trail features some really nice slide guitar continues a bit the mood of the
haunting Eastern feel but a bit more spacey. It brings back great memories. The
opening track on Side 3, further up the Mountain Trail features some truly
amazing melodic guitar playing from Mathias. What a wonderful track. Into the
Cosmic Halo closes out the record in a hard rocking manner. Excellent album. The
bands new studio album is coming out on Oct 14th as well. I will try
to review that as well.
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