Messenger - Illusory Blues (2014) {Svart Records}
Messenger - Illusory Blues (2014) {Svart Records}
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© 2014 Svart Records | SVR 260 CD
Rock / Progressive Rock / Prog Folk / Psychedelic
MESSENGER is a musical troupe from London formed in the spring of 2012 by Khaled Lowe and Barnaby Maddick. They booked a session with producer Jaime Gomez Arellano at Orgone Studios that gave birth to their debut album, Illusory Blues: a cosmic ode to the forces of nature and the inevitable cycle of life. To cite musical influences would be futile. The musicians had made their names with bands in scenes as far apart as hardcore punk, black metal, and ambient music.
Messenger - Illusory Blues (2014) {Svart Records}
Tonally, one might recall finding oneself in the same "space" occupied by other architects of sound such as Ulver, The Beatles, Swans, or Pink Floyd. But the stream of sound that emanates from the source of Illusory Blues is a heaving mass of organic richness, brimmed with intricate sounds that acknowledge the original fathers of experimentation but look forward in creating something new and unique. They dwell equally in the earthly realm of folk music and in the celestial void of progressive psychedelia, but have chanced upon a sound and an experience that sounds like no other. Rounded off by Daniel Knight and James Leach, the lineup of MESSENGER is now complete, but the journey has just begun.
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Personnel:
Barnaby Maddick / acoustic bass, electric bass, vocals
Khaled Lowe / acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
Jaime Gomez Arellano / drums, percussion
tracklist:
01 - The Return
02 - Piscean Tide
03 - Dear Departure
04 - The Perpetual Glow Of A Setting Sun
05 - Midnight
06 - Somniloquist
07 - Let The Light In
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 1 from 15. November 2010
EAC extraction logfile from 8. August 2014, 19:05
Messenger / Illusory Blues
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EAC extraction logfile from 8. August 2014, 19:05
Messenger / Illusory Blues
Used drive : SlimtypeDVD A DS8A4S Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
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Selected bitrate : 896 kBit/s
Quality : High
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Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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==== Log checksum 195A4915FEF10E5C033B09276245CFB9166E9938D6F7349EE0C737E7C4FFB45E ====
Messenger - Illusory Blues (2014) {Svart Records}
Messenger - Illusory Blues (2014) {Svart Records}
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