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This is the brand new first offspring from the marriage
of two American prog rock maestros, Gregg Johns of Slychosis
and Jeff Hamel from Majestic, with Majestic’s Jessica Rasche
on vocals. This is like jumping into a time machine back
to the 70’s, so don your flares and tie dyes, and come on
board with me my friends. While we on the way we can have
a good look at the stunning surrealist artwork by Vladimir
Moldavsky, you are going to have some fun trying to decipher
the pictures, takes me back to the days of vinyl when you
used to spend hours looking at the sleeves trying to work
out what it all meant, with the help of substances legal
or otherwise. The first 3 songs are epic tours around Yes,
Genesis, Gentle Giant, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd, ELP, Caravan,
Fleetwood Mac, Vangelis and Curved Air, anywhere where the
fancy takes them. Jessica has an excellent versatile voice
that changes to suit the music, which is full of superb
melodies, guitars and synths. A dramatic acoustic guitar
arpeggio announces the fourth tune, the reflective, dreamy,
atmospheric, ‘Contemplation’. Then we suddenly find ourselves
detoured back to the 60’s with ‘Flashback to Now (A Hippy’s
Lament)’ and ‘Deep Space Intermission’, groovy man, I really
dig this happenin scene, I’m sure someone’s put something
in my cup of tea, far-out and sideways, crazy like. The
lovely acoustic ballad ‘Leaves Fall’ then brings us back
to our tour of the 70’s for the final 3 epics, but hang
on a moment, there’s some Dream Theatre in there, it must
be a rip in the time space continuum. For dyed in the wool
prog fans this will bring a misty eyed tear to the eye,
‘flashing back to another time and place, fuzztone axes,
colors dancing on my face. I dare not stay here, but this
is a groovy place’ (Flashback to Now). For new adventurers,
this is a fantastic trip, 74 minutes of amazing, superbly
produced and performed music that will keep you entertained
for months. Your ticket to ride awaits you at http://proximaldistance.com/blog/
, come on board for a journey of a lifetime. 9 out of 10
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