Secret
Saucer are back with their 6th release. Dave Hess and Steve Hayes
are the core of the band with various other members coming and going. This is
the first SS release without my friend Greg Kozlowski from Arc Met featured on
at least a few songs. Ted Boburka plays percussion and drums on most tracks and
Bill Spear most of the bass. Dan Schnell, John Pack and Steve Bemand handle
basically all the guitars. This album actually is very synthesizer oriented and
much less guitar than any of the bands previous records and start off with Blue
Star, which is only synths and some percussion with a vocal or sample way in
the back to give it this sort of spaced out tribal feel. Spin Drift is an
uptempo happy track that reminds me of some weird late 70’s commercial film
soundtrack. The Visible Light is more like 70s Tangerine Dream but with some
fiddle here and there. The Alderson Point is the first track with a more hard
rock guitar and heavy bass line. John Pack plays the lead guitar on this one. Three
Days of Darkness starts is made of 3 parts and starts off with a slow doomy
part with a lot of cool synths and great soloing by Steve Bemand. Great 8½ min
track. The Quencher starts with a repetitive synth loop and then the drums come
and then the bass and then the guitar and off we go for another track that has
a really happy feeling to it but still very spacey. Space Walking has these
really cool long synths space drones (make voice like sounds later) while the
other synth plays the lead line. Mr natural is the most experimental and out
there tracks to start as the synth line slowly fades up and the track takes
off. Features Greg Klucher on Flute and James Dunn on drums and has a sort of
jazzy feel to it. The final track is called Nova Star to end a really cool
album and for sure the most melodic and sort of mainstream one the band has
made. Great stuff.
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