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RECORDING INFORMATION |
Released on ProgRock Records.
According the the Frameshift web site, the underlying idea was to achieve three goals:
- Produce an album featuring James LaBrie in ways that no one has heard him before
- Combine the elements of progressive rock, film scoring and very modern production
Use the work of Richard Dawkins (one of today's most influential neo-Darwinist writers) as a concept that connects all the pieces on the album
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| COMMENTS & REVIEWS |
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ProgNaut
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Published on: 13 Jan 2004
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MJBrady
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Published on: 1 Jan 2004
After gaining positive attention for his previous release as Chain, Henning Pauly follows that fine recording with a new Project cd, in Frameshift, Pauly is joined by DreamTheater's vocalist - James LaBrie, who finds himself in yet another form of music outside his role in DT.
Pauly's music is not progmetal as a rule, he does utilize some of progmetals' nuances, yet his background as a film musical director finds his tastes running far and wide with what he is willing to inject into his direction with this project. Pauly plays the role of multi-instrumentalist, doing all the guitars, keyboards, some bass, and also provides all the writing, production, and arranging. Obviously knowing these fact while listening to Frameshift, one cannot overlook the talents of this person. He is also joined by a drummer Eddie Marvin, and bassist/stick player - Nik Guadagnoli.
One thing about this cd is apparent, even after the first song, with James Labrie as your vocalist, you can not escape the Dream Theater comparisons, even though Pauly has a much different compositional approach, Labrie's voice is so unique to that bands sound, however, I do like the many different ways that Pauly has charted his voice in harmonies, which show a new side of LaBrie's talents. Unlike Dream Theater, Pauly seems to compose more from the keyboards, whereas DT's music is very guitar based. I'd haev to say that this music more closely resembles what LaBrie did with Keneally & Matt Guillory on the Mullmuzzler cds. Though I find this music more admirable and unique.
If you were aware of the news of this cd and were thinking that this would be another DT cloning experiment, you would be far off in those assumptions, Pauly, who has such a diverse background musically, also has a deep well for musical ideas from which to draw from. This is not a cd for fans of the metallish side of progressive music, but aimed more toward the fans of symphonic, grand, ambiously detailed progressive music. In certain places I am reminded of Magellan, but with better vocals, other sections are reminescent of some of progrocks legends, yet overall, Henning Pauly has found the niche for individuality that he was striving for when he began this endeavor into prog territory.
Frameshift seems to exist between many known progressive subgenres, which is always a good place to be, it means that the artists involved are constantly expanding the set boundaries of the musical spectrum, Pauly's intentions of using the complex and diversity of creating film scores and translating them into progressive music, has proven to be a success from what I am hearing on this cd, this is one well worth your attention, metalheads beware.
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PROGGNOSIS SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
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- Above the Grass Part 1
- Gene Mache
- Spiders
- River Out of Eden
- Message From The Mountain
- Your Eyes
- La Mer
- Nice Gues Finish First
- Arms Races
- Origins and Miracles
- Off the Ground
- Walking Through Genetic Space
- Cultural Genetics
- Bats
- Above the Grass Part 2
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