The third album from this band from USA.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, sitar, mallet and keyboards.
I reviewed their second album, Prophesies (1999) last month and quite liked that eclectic neo-classical music album. It had some weird takes on Rush and ELP songs in addition to their own material.
The fifty minutes long En Route only have original material. The music is still eclectic neo-classical music in the vein of ELP at their most eclectic neo-classical music pieces.
Hermetic Science takes ELPs most eclectic music and runs further with it... into some really eclectic landscapes. In this respect, they also sounds like the Dutch band Trace.
But no bands has taken eclectic neo-classical music further towards weirdness than Hermetic Science. The music here is very, very out there eclectic.
The music is still melodic with lots of church organ sounding keyboards. There is also a lot of staccato rhythms here.
The weirdness of this music is my abiding memory of this album (and their previous album). It is a decent album in it's own right although it has a bit of a kitsch feeling.
Check out this album.
2 points
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