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Released by Moscow's MALS Records as their first international release and done so in association with Musea.
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Nuno
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Published on: 15 Jun 2005
Though the album is credited as Jeremy & Progressor, in terms of overall musicality it sounds to me more a Jeremy Morris album with a wide Vitaly Menshikov collaboration.
I conclude this for the fact that the music in this album has much more in common with the prior Jeremy solo work than that of Vitaly (X Religion, Al Bird), which has been much more complex and challenging.
There is also the collaboration of Brian Hirsch, who has died some years ago, so this album must have been some years in the makings.
The music in The Pearl of Great Price mixes a wide variety of styles, though it sort of encapsules those styles into a basic Spacey sound. The Electronic, Ambient, Neo-Classic and Symphonic genres, that also punctuate this release, tend to take turns between and inside each track, but always inbreeded inside a Space Rock suit.
The guitar playing of Jeremy seems to sip influences from some known artists coming from different grounds. The soloing units may appear as reminiscent of Joe Satriani and Gary Moore most melodic moments, but they often come closer to the styles of David Guilmour, Steve Hackett and even Brian May. This makes that guitar work present a diverse approach, suiting each moment at the will of the artist.
The keyboards are essencial in the tracks structure, for they often serve as the basis for all the music to stand above, but many times those keyboards step into the spotlight to bare the main role. And if it is the guitar that confines the music inside Spacey atmospheres, it is this keyboard work that essentially state the music merging style into the Electronic, Symphonic, Neo-Classic or Ambient paths. In this process, the listener may be driven to recognize some Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis tendencies, and there are even moments where the likes of Ozric Tentacles have crossed my mind.
4 fo the total 7 tracks of the album are over 10 minutes of duration, one of them doubling that time stamp, so this album clocks for almost 70 minutes of music, crossing contemplative, planating and emotional grounds, with some escapades into more tight, quircky and demanding sonic experiences.
To sum, Jeremy & Progressor’s The Pearl of Great Price is an album that has this strange duality of suiting two very apart moods and feelings, for it will make you good company in calm car trips with great landscape sceneries, sharing a sense of grandness, but also when you just want to dim your house lights and comfortably seat on your couch with an introspective and relaxing mood, while wanting to be slightly aroused.
This CD can be purchased from Musea (www.musearecords.com), Kinesis (www.kinesiscd.com) and JAM Records (www.jamrecordings.com)
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PROGGNOSIS SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY (click to view Release Page) |
- Desert winds (10:02)
- Simoom
- Zephyr
- Spiral Vortex (10:04)
- Alien Nation (6:10)
- Pearl of great price (4:43)
- Battle zone (5:31)
- Final victory (10:28)
- The journey home (20:42)
- Transparent darkness
- Total Lucidity
- Nellysea
- Borderland
- Flying
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