Spock's Beard - Snow

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Dec 6, 2016 Sold Date

Mar 20, 2016 Start Date

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Artikel Name: Snow
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Produkt Typ: LP (Vinyl) Label: Inside OutMusic Titelanzahl: 52

Trackliste LP - 1

1. Spock's Beard - Made Alive Overture 2. Spock's Beard - Stranger in a Strange Land 3. Spock's Beard - Long Time Suffering 4. Spock's Beard - Welcome to NYC 5. Spock's Beard - Love Beyond Words 6. Spock's Beard - 39th Street Blues (I'm Sick) 7. Spock's Beard - Devil's Got My Throat

Trackliste LP - 2

8. Spock's Beard - Open Wide the Flood Gates 9. Spock's Beard - Open the Gates, Pt. 2 10. Spock's Beard - Solitary Soul 11. Spock's Beard - Wind at My Back 12. Spock's Beard - Second Overture 13. Spock's Beard - 4th of July 14. Spock's Beard - I'm the Guy 15. Spock's Beard - Reflection 16. Spock's Beard - Carie

Trackliste LP - 3

17. Spock's Beard - Looking for Answers 18. Spock's Beard - Freak Boy 19. Spock's Beard - All Is Vanity 20. Spock's Beard - I'm Dying 21. Spock's Beard - Freak Boy, Pt. 2 22. Spock's Beard - Devil's Got My Throat Revisited 23. Spock's Beard - Snow's Night Out 24. Spock's Beard - Ladies and Gentlemen, Mister Ryo Okumoto on the Keyboards 25. Spock's Beard - I Will Go 26. Spock's Beard - Made Alive Again/Wind at My Back

Trackliste CD - 4

27. Spock's Beard - Made Alive Overture 28. Spock's Beard - Stranger in a Strange Land 29. Spock's Beard - Long Time Suffering 30. Spock's Beard - Welcome to NYC 31. Spock's Beard - Love Beyond Words 32. Spock's Beard - 39th Street Blues (I'm Sick) 33. Spock's Beard - Devil's Got My Throat 34. Spock's Beard - Open Wide the Flood Gates 35. Spock's Beard - Open the Gates, Pt. 2 36. Spock's Beard - Solitary Soul 37. Spock's Beard - Wind at My Back

Trackliste CD - 5

38. Spock's Beard - Second Overture 39. Spock's Beard - 4th of July 40. Spock's Beard - I'm the Guy 41. Spock's Beard - Reflection 42. Spock's Beard - Carie 43. Spock's Beard - Looking for Answers 44. Spock's Beard - Freak Boy 45. Spock's Beard - All Is Vanity 46. Spock's Beard - I'm Dying 47. Spock's Beard - Freak Boy, Pt. 2 48. Spock's Beard - Devil's Got My Throat Revisited 49. Spock's Beard - Snow's Night Out 50. Spock's Beard - Ladies and Gentlemen, Mister Ryo Okumoto on the Keyboards 51. Spock's Beard - I Will Go 52. Spock's Beard - Made Alive Again/Wind at My Back

Beschreibung

Spock's Beard are the quintessential American progressive rock band. Their music has consistently been brave, restless, and often visionary. On Snow, a double-CD concept album, they go for broke. Creatively, this is a new direction for the band in the sense that carrying out a sustained narrative of this magnitude stretches all compositional notion, as well as those surrounding production, arrangement, and consistency of voice. There is so much weight placed on each track to move a story forward, either expressionistically or narratively, that getting bogged down in it is always a risk. Happily, that is not the case here. Spock's Beard have taken all of their strengths instrumentally, lyrically, and vocally, and concentrated them in this effort about an albino boy on a noble, if idiosyncratic, quest. While concept albums have been done on much loftier notions, they seem to falter under their own weight, or the light of actual history. Here, Neal and Alan Morse, and their bandmates, use a much more subjective fantasy story, and create a spiritual, physical, ideological, and emotional set of circumstances that follow their protagonist through 26 songs. Musically, Snow is a wonder, it's full of nuance and texture, taut dynamics and lush arrangements, that are all, seemingly, of a piece,. While some Spock's Beard fans might have a hard time with the softer, gentler side of the band that is evidenced here, it would be tough to argue that this change of direction was both necessary and warranted. Spock's Beard has been pushing at their own boundaries for a while now, and with Snow, they shatter them and enter into the very promise of what progressive rock is always supposed to deliver: discovering some heretofore unknown sonic territory via the individual and collective focus of creating through the applied effort of one's best musical efforts. Snow is an allegory, it is an archetypal story that is ambitious in scope and redemptive in result, and is a thoroughly rewarding -- if challenging -- listen. ~ Thom Jurek

Thom Jurek