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The Journey

a Studio Release
Release Year:
2011
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Added To Proggnosis on: 03 Apr 2012
Last Updated on: 28 Jun 2012 by: DBSilver

Track Listing 

    CD-1
    "Journey To The Heart Of Your Mind"
  1. Blank Page (7:19)
  2. The Journey Begins (4:57)
  3. Join Us ! (3:49)
  4. Doubt (1:29)
  5. Fight The World (5:17)
  6. Longing For My Childhood (4:46)
  7. Interlude "Turn The Page" (0:55)
  8. Bright Spots (5:17)
  9. Envy (1:33)
  10. Interlude "Dark Page" (1:00)
  11. Miss Fortune (3:45)
  12. Interlude "Forgotten Page" (1:30)
  13. The King Of Make-Believe (5:16)
  14. Free ! (3:07)
  15. Credo (5:01)
  16. The Last Page (5:07)
    CD-2
    "The Narrow Path"
  1. Turn The Key (5:35)
  2. Miniature 8 "La Mélancolie" (2:32)
  3. The Narrow Path (11:57)
  4. Monkey Business (2:56)
  5. Happiness Theme (3:56)
  6. Collage '11 (3:08)
  7. Miniature 6 "La Flegmatique" (2:24)
  8. Does It Help ? (7:34)
  9. The French Wrench (4:22)

Performer Credits  


Erik de Beer
acoustic & electric piano's, Moogs, Hammond organ, pipe organ, harpsichord, synthesizers, guitars, mandolin, lute, chitarrone, baroque guitar, acoustic bass guitar, vocals
With
    Marion Brinkman-Stroetinga
    lead & harmony vocals
    Maruschka Kartosonto
    lead & harmony vocals
    Peter van der Stel
    lead & harmony vocals (King Of Make-Believe)
    Liset Dullaart
    lead & harmony vocals (Miss Fortune)
    Anja Sides-Dirkzwager
    lead vocals (Does It Help?)
    Johan van der Stel
    money making yuppie (Join Us)
    Maarten Mol
    mad preacher (Join Us)
    Elsa de Beer
    flute & Wendy the Brainless Rapper (Join Us)
    Dineke Visser
    oboe
    Anneke Verhage
    clarinet
    Lisette Harms
    clarinet (Forgotten Page)
    Ada Bienfait
    bassoon
    Jody van der Gijze
    electric & acoustic guitars, lots of harmony vocals & additional lead vocals
    Iris Sagan
    bass guitar, harmony vocals & the socialist (Join Us)

Reviews


review by: Valerio

There are band which aren't in my player often and Life Line Project is one of them BUT, and yes a big BUT needed, when I play their last effort there is a sort of smile in my face.
Let me "try to try"to explain You why.

Life Line Project is the perfect example of what progressive music was and continues to be.
This double CD is the essence of Erik De Beer compositions, in fact we find re-arrangements of tunes back from 1978...even if most of them are 90's compositions.

In poor words Mr. De Beer invited the musicians of all Life Line Project formation during the last 20 years and re-played its music. Cheers!

The Journey is a romantic prog rock experience with one foot in the classic field and the other in the neo-prog field and the combo is pretty nice. Fluently jumping from a massive use of synths and organs recalling ELP (sharp) to folk songwriters sessions (romantic)and hard prog UK school (hard) to farly zappasque feelings (unexpected use of vocals, sometimes just talking or even !blasphemy!rapping).
 The Journey is a real Journey and a document of 20+ years career.

Sometimes I am so obsessed by looking for something "different-weird-avant" that I miss too much how enjoyable can be a classic prog album. Interesting is the message Life Line Project transmits through its music and through its lyrics, will take long to give You a detailed description of lyrics, just think of the idea of save this world from the endless corruption it fell in. If You are looking for straight proggettone (big prog!:-)),we say in Italian, LLP can be the answer.

If You like to dream on neverending scales and always in progress melodies this can be the answer.
If you are in love with keyboards this is absolutely the answer, even if, don't forget Mr. De Beer plays guitars and acoustic bass too.
A complete work with everything standarized with the "prog" method. Three Female singers like a curtain sit above exagerated keyboard harmonies.

There is a kind of "old-school" feeling which is really interesting and real authentic progressive rock lovers will enjoy very much.

Recommended!

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