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A fascinating
name and a fascinating, very colourful cover. But what about the
music?
Is it as radiant as the cover illustration suggests?
It certainly is less convincing than I had hoped or expected. The
progressive rock, brought by The Gak Omek is experimental from time
to time, connecting sounds that remind of ancient, eastern mysteries
to the ideas that have created modern, progressive rock music.
Sometimes one gets the impression that the composers have been
influenced by Mike Oldfield, but they never reach the level of
playfulness that is typical for Oldfield’s music.
So most of the album one sits there waiting for what’s to come (for
the expectation is created alright), only to realise after more than
an hour that the waiting has been in vain, and the hunger still
there.
This is not an easy album to listen to, so one should give it the
benefit of the doubt and listen to it at least a few times. There
are no recognisable melodies, no lyrics to clarify the music. But to
my taste, the music lacks a bit of melody. It never really explodes
and stays to technical. There are more synthesizers than soul in it…
’Cydonia’ is a good example for this album. A wellbuilt up
mysterious atmosphere, followed by an up-tempo electronic part with
a rather convincing guitar solo, but then it drifts off in a
doubtful combination of different synthesizer sounds and rhytms.
Ironically the last track “Departure of the all-powerful light
beings” is the best. Three minutes to synthesise what could have
been…
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