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| Watching The Closing Sky |
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This is a new progressive rock quartet from the Netherlands . The band consists of Raoul Potters on guitar and vocals, who is also responsible for writing the songs, Arjan Visser on bass, Rene Visser on keyboards and backing vocals and Fred den Hartog on drums.
There has always been a vivid progressive rock scene of bands and fans in the Netherlands , and Profuna Ocean now add their exclamation mark to this scene with a hopeful debut album that is – according to progressive rock – a mini album or EP, but in the hard rock world anything around 40 minutes might be a full album.
At the beginning of the opening track “Changing Legacy” one could think of a new Porcupine Tree album, especially with the guitar style and sound. But when the vocals of Raoul Potters are joining in, the song gains originality. Of course one can hear other influences by all those big names in progressive rock. The opener sometimes rocks relatively straight for a progressive rock song – but no fear, that´s good.
“Lost Inside (The Landscape)” is also a modern progressive rock tune, maybe a bit in the footsteps of Riverside . The third masterpiece is called “Sad Silhouette” and starts with atmospherical keyboard sounds before the guitar comes into the song in a clean and picked style. With a certain melancholy the song follows in the footsteps of those great progressive rock heroes like Pink Floyd or the later Marillion with Steve Hogarth – but these comparisons only are to offer a certain description for you, the four guys of Profuna Ocean are from imitating anyone!
Closing the album is “S.C.I.T.S.” what is the abbreviation of “sadness crawled inside the summer”. After a laid back beginning the song turns into uptempo, before at the edge of five minutes it slows down and the drumming turns into a tribal mood and the instrumentation is very rhythmical. After a short heavy riffing the song turns back into melodic progressive rock with a piano part following, until the uptempo melody closes the song after more than 14 minutes – a real longtrack.
I think we can expect a lot more from this quartet in the future. But at first I´ll advise you to check out the band via www.profuna-ocean.com. |
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