It has been a few years since the
last SBE record. Christian, the voice, guitarist and leader of the band has
been very busy with making solo records and searching deep into his soul and
this comes across on this new record. The lyrics are more personal. The musical pallet has also expanded a bit
with the addition of some keyboards. Vipassana starts things off with some nice
heavy riffs, combined with a spoken word like vocal, nice eastern guitar
phrasing and vibe. Powerful track (you can hear it below). Sad
Guru Returns is an instrumental track. Glorious Daze is a bit more laid back
with some Fender Rhodes like piano and sitar. Around 3.5mins Christian kicks in
with a short organ solo. A more raga like structure takes over. It ends with
some nice organ playing. One with the Universe starts off builds on the bass
line and some bluesy guitar but a sort of ominous drone choir keyboard and then
the track starts to build up but has a long instrumental beginning and there
are no vocals before 9mins. The bass playing, drumming and playing by the band
are awesome on this track. Wow.. Eastern Sun & Western Moon closes out the
record. This one again features a lot of melodic guitar lines and organ.
Christian does not forget to play these great solos either. A great heavy build
and ending. What a great record and one of my faves this year. Not sure how
they pull this off live as a 3 piece but maybe Christian has a keyboard to play
live and can loop some of this guitar riffs or ???? Great record.
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