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genre: neo sympho prog
country: japan
quality: lossless (flac, cue, log, scans)
time: 45'12" size: mb
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In the Eighties NOVELA was a pivotal Japanese band that gradually turned from heavy progressive into hardrock. Their keyboardist Toshio Egawa left NOVELA to start his own band with a bunch of musicians from which guitarist/vocalist Yukihiro Fujimura was the most important. The first two albums "Gerard" ('84) and "Empty Lie, Empty Dream" ('85) are masterpieces with Toshio Egawa (his mother was a piano teacher) as the Japanese answer to the great keyboardplayers from the UK: he has the androgyn looks from Eddie Jobson, the elegant virtuosity from Rick WAKEMAN and the bombastic approach from Keith EMERSON. An attempt to a description is "a harder-edged mid-GENESIS". Their third LP "Irony of Fate" ('91) was a good effort to create a more original sound but sound less symphonic. That's probalby why GERARD's next album "Save Knight by the Knight" and the mini-CD "Evidence of True Love" (both '94) were presented as Toshio Egawa's GERARD. It contains strong and impressive synthesizerplay but the songs are a bit too predictable. In '96 Toshio Egawa's GERARD returned in the world of progrock with new musicians: Atsushi Hasegawa (bass), Masuhiro Goto (drums) and the hugh Canadian singer Robin G. Suchy. Their strong and compelling album "The Pendulum" ('96) is still highly acclaimed and their next album "Pandora's Box" ('97) is also OK. Then the singer left and down to a trio GERARD released "Meridian" ('98), "Live at Marseille" ('98) with the BANCO cover "La conquista della posizione erretta", "The Ruins of a Glass Fortress" (2000) and "Sighs of the Water" (2002). ... ~ Erik Neuteboom, The NETHERLANDS
01. "Labyrinth (Muséa Version)" 4:40
02. "The Edge Of Darkness" 10:32
03. "Time Paradox" 5:14
04. "Awake (Muséa Version)" 5:03
05. "Fall Into A Doze" 7:41
06. "The Ruins Of A Glass Fortress (Part One)" 3:32
07. "The Ruins Of A Glass Fortress (Part Two)" 8:29
Toshio Egawa / keyboards
Atsushi Hasegawa / bass
Masuhiro Goto / drums & percussion
Special guest:
Jean-Luc "F. Nazaki" vocals (on tracks 3 & 7)
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