THE REASONING – Awakening

Cover	Release	Style
	2007-03	prog
	Label
	www.comet-music.co.uk
	Website
	www.thereasoning.com , www.myspace.com/thereasoninguk
	Contact
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	Playing Time	Cat. N°
	49:01	CM010207
	Review by	Rating
	Danny	9/10
nederlands	Review
From the first notes on this CD, I already felt it. This is one of the bands that you want to see on stage, of which you are eagerly waiting their next release. Or in a nutshell, a new name in my favourite bands list. A glance at the names of the musicians explains the reason for this instant appeal. Founding member Matthew Cohen used to play the bass guitar in Magenta and Rachel Jones was lead singer of Karnataka. The most important asset of the band is the vocal line-up. Some bands are having trouble finding one good vocalist but The Reasoning found three of them. And they are using these three vocals almost all of the time, sometimes as a little choir but very often singing different vocal lines interwoven into each other. You can admire this already in the first song “Awakening”, my personal favourite. Every musician plays an awesome part in this music. It’s progressive rock with a wink to the past, but they certainly add their own sound to it. In this style of music, the lyrics always play an important part, so it’s a shame they are not in the booklet, although the rest of the artwork isn’t bad at all. Steve Rothery of Marillion is playing a great solo in the last track “With Cold Glass”. It certainly lifts the song to a higher level, although I think Dylan or Les could have played a solo like that, judging from the solos they play during the other tracks. But of course, a name like Rothery looks good on the album cover. ;-) It all sounds very progressive especially the complete sound, although there’s no variation in the rhythm, once a song starts in a certain rhythm, it stays the same till the end. So that might withhold some progressive fans. But if you like Magenta and Karnataka or if you like progressive music with lots of splendid vocals, then you should try this out.
Musicians
Rachel Jones: Vocals and Percussion Dylan Thompson: Vocals and Guitars Matthew Cohen: Bass Gareth Jones: Vocals and Keyboards Les Wright: Guitars Vinden Wylde: Drums Guest Musician: Steve Rothery: guitar on With Cold Glass
Tracklist
1. Awakening (6:50) 2. Chasing Rainbows (6:07) 3. Playing the Game (4:14) 4. Aching Hunger (6:45) 5. Sacred Shape (6:38) 6. Fallen Angels (6:25) 7. Shadows of the Mind (7:18) 8. With Cold Glass (4:43)


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