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"Between progressive rock and 70's hard-rock, "Motions Of Desire" is a good business card for this young band in the making..."
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3/5
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Magic Pie is a young band of experienced musicians who, with their first album, present a very interesting business card to say the least. When visiting their website, we have here a band with very varied influences, from Simple Minds or Tower Of Power, for the bass player, to Flower Kings and Spock's Beard, for the guitar player, and a drummer who evokes Deep Purple's Made In Japan as a reference. With all this, it would have been difficult to build a band without originality.
The result is therefore all that is most pleasing, starting with the opening track, 'Change', which from the top of its 20 minutes, gives a good slap. The Flower Kings and Spock's Beard just have to behave, the next generation is here. But the discourse doesn't stop there, and the diversity of styles is one of the first things you take away from such an album. Of course, we're still sticking to progressive rock or good old 70's rock. No latino, jazz or waltz deliriums as in many bands that mix everything and anything, but no clear guideline either and these compositions make you want to get out of the closet a Stardust We Are (Flower Kings) or a Snow (Spock's Beard) as a Song For America (Kansas) or a Machine Head (Deep Purple).
No demonstrative technicality, but a perfect mastery of the subject and a right to speak for each of the members. Next to the "Change" complex are "raw" and devilishly efficient tracks such as this fabulous "Without Knowing Why" on which it is difficult not to linger.
However, there's a downside, because if diversity is the order of the day while avoiding indigestible deliriums, the ease is sometimes too obvious and one easily falls into the outdated recipes. Thus, some passages at the end of 'Illusion And Reality Part 1' are very disappointing and what can we say about Part 3, which seems to have come out of the brain of a specialist of old fashioned prom ? It's a pity because the whole is really pleasant and very promising. We're looking forward to what's next... - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
01. Change - 20:05
02. Motions Of Desire - 06:32
03. Full Circle Poetry - 14:15
04. Without Knowing Why - 07:55
05. Illusion & Reality (part I) - 10:18
06. Illusion & Reality (part Ii) - Final Breath - 04:49
07. Illusion & Reality (part Iii) - Reprise - 03:09
08. Dream Vision - 07:50
LINEUP:
Allan Olsen: Chant
Eirik Hanssen: Chant
Gilbert Marshall: Chant / Claviers
Jan T. Johannessen: Batterie
Kim Stenberg: Guitares
Lars Petter Holstad: Basse
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