The second album from this band from Norway.
The band was a sextet on this album with a lineup of drums, percussion, glockenspiel, bass, mandolin, guitars, piano, organ, keyboards, synths, flute and vocals.
Three guests added clavinet, mellotron, synths, strings, electric piano, piano, organ and keyboards.
This album's full title is The Songs And Tales Of Airoea, Book 2: Ocean Traveler (Metamorphis) and it is part 2 of the three parts long epic piece of music The Songs And Tales Of Airoea. We will get the final part later this year.
This trilogy has been on the planning stages since the 1990s. But their regular bands like Jordsjø, Samuel Jackson Five, Wobbler and Tusmørke got their full focus instead.
Book 1 (see review, October 2023) was a full on mix of folk rock, symphonic prog and eclectic prog. The same goes for Book 2, indeed. It two parts of a trilogy...
The music is very complex, wild and untamed. There is a lot of flutes here and the music is very much unmistakenly Norwegian symphonic prog.
The quality is again good, although not as high as on Book 1. I suspect this trilogy will get a cult status when the dust has finally settled and the scene has recovered from the shock this trilogy no doubts has given it.
3 points
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