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Number : GR-191 ▓███ ███▓ Street Date : 2012-00-00 ▓███ ███▓ Rip Date : 2020-01-07 ▓███ ███▓ Encoder : LAME 64bits version 3.100 (http://lame.sf.net) -V0 ▓███ ███▓ Quality : 260kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo ▓███ ███▓ Tracks : 3 ▓███ ███▓ Playtime : 00:57:44 (112.MB) ▓███ ███▓ URL : http://groove.nl/cd/g/gr-191.html ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓█▄▄ ▄▄█▓███ ███████▓███▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄███▓███████ ██▀▀▀▀███▓████ ▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄ ▀ ▄▄▄ ▀ ▄▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ███ ▄ ▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄ █████▓███▀▀▀▀██ █ ▓▓▓▓ ███████▄▄ █ ▄ █ █ █ █ █ ▄▄▄ █▄▀ █ ███ █ ▀▄▄▄ ▄ █ ▄▄████████ ▓▓▓▓ █ █ ▓▓▓▓ █████████ █ █ █ ▀▀▄ █▀▀▀█ ▀▄▄▄▄ █ ▀▄ █▄▄▄▄ █ ▄▄▄▄▀ █ █ ██████████ ▓▓▓▓ █ ██▄▄▄▄███▓██████▄▄▄█▄▄▄█▄▄▄▄▄█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄██▄▄▄███████▓███▄▄▄▄██ ████████▀▀▀ ▀▀▀████████ ███▓▀ ▀▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ 01 The Tower of Breganze 20:20 ▓███ ███▓ 02 The Tower of Aurumshade 17:52 ▓███ ███▓ 03 The Tower of Diameter 19:32 ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ 57:44 min ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓█▄▄ ▄▄█▓███ ███████▓███▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄███▓███████ ██▀▀▀▀███▓█████ ▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄ ▄ █████████████ ▄ ▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▀█████▓███▀▀▀▀██ █ ▓▓▓▓ ████████ █ █ █▄▄ ▄ █ █████ ▄▄▄▄▄ █ █ █ ▄ █ █ █ ▄ █ ████████ ▓▓▓▓ █ █ ▓▓▓▓ ████████ █ ▀▀▄ █▄▄▄▄ █▄▄▄▄ █▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█ █ █ █ █ █▀▀▀ ▀▄▄▄▀ ████████ ▓▓▓▓ █ ██▄▄▄▄███▓█████▄▄▄█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█████████▄▄▄▄▄█▄▄▄▄▄████▄▄▄▄▄██████▓███▄▄▄▄██ ████████▀▀▀ ▀▀▀████████ ███▓▀ ▀▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ Lamp is a collaboration of Michael Shipway (also known as one half ▓███ ███▓ of VoLt) with guitarist/friend Garth Jones. Michael and Garth are ▓███ ███▓ actually former work colleagues and after a number of studio and ▓███ ███▓ live sessions together, they agreed that the combination of Garth's ▓███ ███▓ melodic guitar with MichaelÆs synthesiser soundscapes would be ▓███ ███▓ appreciated within and beyond the EM community. ▓███ ███▓ ôThe Three Towersö comprises three long tracks of 20, 17 and 19 ▓███ ███▓ minutes, mixing elements of classic electronics with contemporary ▓███ ███▓ EM-styles. They all rise from the foundation of MichaelÆs majestic ▓███ ███▓ sequences and evocative synth pads. These are then capped by lead ▓███ ███▓ lines that switch between synthesiser and guitar, in line of a ▓███ ███▓ conversation. The general recording technique was for Michael to ▓███ ███▓ create the key sequences for each track, applying mostly the ▓███ ███▓ Sequentix Cirklon sequencer with Virus, Oasys and Voyager ▓███ ███▓ synthesisers. Garth would then add guitar refrains and riffs from ▓███ ███▓ his beloved Fender Stratocaster guitar in the studio or from the ▓███ ███▓ comfort of his own desk, approximately 75 miles away. In the next ▓███ ███▓ stage, Michael incorporated these contributions with his own ▓███ ███▓ synthesiser leads and performed further editing to create the final ▓███ ███▓ mix of each track. In the end, professional mastering was carried ▓███ ███▓ out by Ron Boots to put the icing on the cake and lift the outcome ▓███ ███▓ to an even higher plain. Michael recalls the structure of the album ▓███ ███▓ suggested the title ôThe Three Towersö which in turn led to the cd ▓███ ███▓ artwork. The music itself then inspired Garth to write a short ▓███ ███▓ story to be offered as one possible interpretation. ▓███ ███▓ Despite distinct VoLt-influences occasionally simmering through the ▓███ ███▓ various layers and main structure of ôThe Three Towersö, its music ▓███ ███▓ carries a lighter and more open feel, with GarthÆs tasty guitar ▓███ ███▓ licks adding melodic, poignant and lush phrases throughout. I for ▓███ ███▓ one though feel the third and final part (ôThe Tower of Diameterö) ▓███ ███▓ is also the weakest: itÆs a bit too easy-going while not aptly ▓███ ███▓ tying the strengths of both musicians together. ▓███ ███▓ And although the album title, cover art and inside map might ▓███ ███▓ suggest otherwise, the albumÆs concept is not based on anything ▓███ ███▓ related to TolkienÆs ôThe Lord of the Ringsö or Middle Earth: it ▓███ ███▓ relates to the multi-being and scientist Bernodine and is on a ▓███ ███▓ universal scale, yet provides an echo from an ancient legend. ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ --- ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ Based on the tales weaved by Bernodine, a scientist as unknown as ▓███ ███▓ his fame, ôThe Three Towersö by Lamp is the answer to the striking ▓███ ███▓ ôPhoenix Arisingö from Steve Smith and the Tylas Cyndrome which ▓███ ███▓ surprised the world of progressive EM and England School in 2011. ▓███ ███▓ Lamp, which comes also out of Volt thigh, is consist of Michael ▓███ ███▓ Shipway (the other half of Volt) on synths and sequences and Garth ▓███ ███▓ Jones, an old friend, on guitars. And The Three Towers is a very ▓███ ███▓ beautiful album which takes on a particular cachet with its artwork ▓███ ███▓ that looks like the legend of Tolkien; The Lord of the Rings. ▓███ ███▓ Except that far from being in the lands of an EM to the fragrances ▓███ ███▓ of the Middle earth, ôThe Three Towersö unlocks on 3 long musical ▓███ ███▓ chapters where misty mellotron and synths with solos from the past ▓███ ███▓ caress some sweet solos and harmonies of a very romantic guitar on ▓███ ███▓ evolutionary rhythms, arched on good sequences and programmed ▓███ ███▓ percussions. ItÆs a superb album which transcends the music of the ▓███ ███▓ Middle, let us stay in the thematic, in order to offer a musical ▓███ ███▓ journey as epic as the tales of Bernodine (The Universe as seen by ▓███ ███▓ Bernodine), which we can read extracts on Michael Shipway's site. ▓███ ███▓ "The Tower of Breganze" introduces us into this dazzling world of a ▓███ ███▓ hybrid EM with iridescent strata coming from a metallic guitar ▓███ ███▓ which float in the soft comfort of a smooth one mellotron mist. ▓███ ███▓ This heady mist, which transports us far beyond our dreams and ▓███ ███▓ waltzes between our two hemispheres, is also of use as rampart to ▓███ ███▓ Michael Shipway's synth who shapes some sweet twisted solos. These ▓███ ███▓ solos of an EM with the fragrances of the vintage years coo in our ▓███ ███▓ ears, such as mermaids in distress on dried up ice floes, when the ▓███ ███▓ more harmonious chords of Garth Jones hum a fine threatening ▓███ ███▓ pulsation. Quietly the rhythm settles down with a line of sequences ▓███ ███▓ among which the keys which pound randomly are preliminary drafting ▓███ ███▓ a nervous rhythmic approach and espouse the spiral movement of a ▓███ ███▓ ghostly bass line. This swirling rhythm is harpooned by programmed ▓███ ███▓ percussions, propelling "The Tower of Breganze" in the crossbred ▓███ ███▓ universe of a progressive electronic rock which swirls in a heavy ▓███ ███▓ minimalist twirl. Displaying a disarming contrast, between its ▓███ ███▓ rotary heaviness and its surprising rhythmic velocity, this loud ▓███ ███▓ tempo rolls like a powerful circular race with a guitar which is ▓███ ███▓ more than poetics with its solos and tunes filled of a Latin flavor ▓███ ███▓ which dance on bludgeoning percussions and sing beneath these ▓███ ███▓ clouds of mellotron which lulled the genesis of "The Tower of ▓███ ███▓ Breganze". This mist of mellotron throws a veil of mysticism on the ▓███ ███▓ introduction of "The Tower of Aurumshade" with hummed layers which ▓███ ███▓ float in a cosmos enchanted by Garth Jones' romantic guitar. Fine ▓███ ███▓ synth solos cross this Eden of wadding, rooting this intro in its ▓███ ███▓ envelope of mist up until the first pulsations which put up a ▓███ ███▓ rhythmic pattern similar to the tower of Breganze. Slowly, and by ▓███ ███▓ means of sequences which flutter such as will-o'-the-wisp, the ▓███ ███▓ rhythm wakes up stealthily with beautiful tears of violin which cry ▓███ ███▓ on chords of a dreamlike guitar until the insistency of the ▓███ ███▓ pulsations stumbles on an amalgam of sequences with a divided ▓███ ███▓ debit. And, like a long hearing orgasm which remains stuck on its ▓███ ███▓ climax of enjoyment to extirpate all its pleasure, the rhythm takes ▓███ ███▓ off a bit after the 13th minute, espousing the torrent of ▓███ ███▓ BreganzeÆs percussions while the guitar, more incisive, bites the ▓███ ███▓ pace with furious solos. ▓███ ███▓ Strangely and contrary to the press guide, "The Tower of Diameter" ▓███ ███▓ is my preferred title on ôThe Three Towersö and here is why! First ▓███ ███▓ of all the intro whips our senses with its strong cosmic breezes ▓███ ███▓ which molds iridescent winds on a ghostly plain grazed by a ▓███ ███▓ wandering guitar. We are in full heart of an obscure imagination ▓███ ███▓ where the winds whistle with a noisy intensity on a rhythm which ▓███ ███▓ blooms after the 3rd minute with glaucous resounding pulsations. A ▓███ ███▓ beautiful line of limpid and fluid sequences swirls with a ▓███ ███▓ celestial grace around this single-phased rhythm which skips ▓███ ███▓ weakly, like being put to sleep by harmonious chords of a keyboard ▓███ ███▓ courting the bites of an oniric guitar. Sequences and pulsations ▓███ ███▓ are merging in a single rhythmic zone when some lines filled by ▓███ ███▓ Hindu psychedelic tones throw a clanic progressive aura on a ▓███ ███▓ passage which quietly rushes towards the forgetting before being ▓███ ███▓ reborn with curt riffs. And the superb and stunning rhythmic ▓███ ███▓ structure of "The Tower of Diameter" displays all of its splendour ▓███ ███▓ with riffs which sound strangely as The Police (Every breath you ▓███ ███▓ take) wrapped of a serene cosmic mist. The next 10 minutes which ▓███ ███▓ flows into our ears are simply charming. Solos of guitars and ▓███ ███▓ synths are exchanging their musical poetries on an oblong hypnotic ▓███ ███▓ rhythm that big celestial clouds caress of a dreamlike veil, ▓███ ███▓ coating the rhythms and ambiences of a thematic pattern that forge ▓███ ███▓ the most beautiful ear worms. ▓███ ███▓ You will have guessed it; ôThe Three Towersö is a wonderful album ▓███ ███▓ where the retro Berlin School bathes in progressive ambiences with ▓███ ███▓ just it takes to make us topple over the other side of the mirror ▓███ ███▓ of the comfort of minimalist rhythms. We may anticipate the ▓███ ███▓ rhythmic rides that we hear coming from miles around that we always ▓███ ███▓ stay open-mouthed in front of their attacks as much vicious as ▓███ ███▓ predictable, sign of an opus splendidly well done which is ▓███ ███▓ completely to the diapason of these tales of which we donÆt know ▓███ ███▓ the origin. And what is to say about these mellotrons? Hum... ▓███ ███▓ completely delightful. ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ --- ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ For me Michael Shipway is probably the best Composer around at the ▓███ ███▓ moment. I thought "Voyage to Venus" was brilliant but this probably ▓███ ███▓ transcends that albeit in a slightly different vein. On his solo ▓███ ███▓ stuff such as "Venus" he regales us with some of the most wonderful ▓███ ███▓ tunes and melodies I have ever heard, and at age 62 I've heard a ▓███ ███▓ few !. His Volt persona leans more towards the "Berlin School" and ▓███ ███▓ has always struggled to impress me (Sorry Michael), but "Three ▓███ ███▓ Towers" arguably lies somewhere in between. A more commercial ▓███ ███▓ offering, full of really catchy melodies, sequences and rhythms ▓███ ███▓ together with a wonderful production make this CD perhaps his best ▓███ ███▓ outing to date. All three tracks are from the top drawer but ▓███ ███▓ undoubtedly my favourite is the last one - "Tower of Diameter". ▓███ ███▓ Dont see how the music inspired the titles - for me this track ▓███ ███▓ should have been called "Troll Jamboree" or some such ! It has an ▓███ ███▓ absolutely exquisite bass line which has such a 'Neanderthal' feel ▓███ ███▓ to it that it in stantly conjures up images of something from the ▓███ ███▓ film "Troll Hunter" - sorry I know the beat is too fast but it ▓███ ███▓ does. I have had this CD for 2 months now and this is one track ▓███ ███▓ that just wont leave my poor brain cells alone. I HAVE to play it ▓███ ███▓ at least once a day - EVERY day and it still shows no sign of ▓███ ███▓ wanting to leave me alone. To say I love it is very much an ▓███ ███▓ understatement. Because of this I have only just got around to ▓███ ███▓ listening to the other two tracks. "Tower of Breganze" is turning ▓███ ███▓ out to be another goodie. Again full of wonderful melodies and ▓███ ███▓ sequences and Garth Jones' almost simplistic but wonderful guitar ▓███ ███▓ sequences. This would be a stand out track on any other CD but for ▓███ ███▓ me only comes second here. "The Tower of Aurumshade" is the ▓███ ███▓ shortest track and starts out slowly, and some really nice rhythms ▓███ ███▓ and guitar licks develop later. ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓█▄▄ ▄▄█▓███ ███████▓███▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄███▓███████ ██▀▀▀▀███▓█████▀ ▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄ ▀█████████ ▄ ▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▀█████▓███▀▀▀▀██ █ ▓▓▓▓ ████████ █ ▄▄▄ █ █ █ █ █ ▄▄▄▄▄ █ █ █ ▄ █ █ █ ▄ █ ████████ ▓▓▓▓ █ █ ▓▓▓▓ ████████ █▄▄▄█ █▀▀▀▄ █ ▀▀ ▄█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█ █ █ █ █ █▀▀▀ ▀▄▄▄▀ ████████ ▓▓▓▓ █ ██▄▄▄▄███▓█████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█▄▄▄▄▄█████████████▄▄▄▄▄█▄▄▄▄▄████▄▄▄▄▄██████▓███▄▄▄▄██ ████████▀▀▀ ▀▀▀████████ ███▓▀ ▀▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ "LOVE AND RESPECT YOUR FRIENDS AND LET YOUR ENEMIES DIE!!!" ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▓███ ██████████▄▄ ▄▄██████████ ██▀ ▄▄▄ ▀▀███▄ ▄███▀▀ ▄▄▄ ▀██ █ ▄▀▀████▄ ▀███▄ ▄███▀ ▄████▀▀▄ █ █▄▄▄▄ █▓▀██▄ ▀███ ███▀ ▄██▀▓█ ▄▄▄▄█ ████ ▄█▓ ▀██ ▀███ ███▀ ██▀ ▓█▄ ▀███ ███ ███ ▓███ ▀███ ███▀ ███▓ ███ ▀██ ██ ██▀ ▓███▓ ████▄ ▄████ ▓███▓ ▀██ ▀█ █ █▀ ▄██▓ ███████▄▄▄ ▄▄██████▄ ▓██▄ ▀█ █ ██ ▄███▓ ███████████████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄██████████████ ▓███▄ ██ ██▓ ▓██▀ ▄███████████████▀▀▀▀▀▀▀█▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀█▀▀▀▀▀▀██████████████▄ ▀██▓ ▓██ ██▓ ▓███▄ ▀ ▄▄▄▄ ▀▀█▀▀▀▀ ▄█████▄ ▄█▀▀▀▀▀█▄ ▄████▄ ▀▀▀█▀▀ ▄▄▄▄ ▀ ▄███▓ ▓██ ▓██▓ ▀███████████▄ ▄██▓██▀ ▀███▄ ▄█▀ ▀██▓██▄ ▄████████████▀ ▓██▓ ▓██▓ ▀▀▀▀ ▀██ ▓▓██▓ ▀██ ▄██▀ ▓██▓▓ ███▀ ▀▀▀▀ ▓██▓ █ ▓██▓ ▓██ ▓█▓ ▓██ ██▀ ▓█▓ ██▓ ▓██▓ █ ██ ▓██▄▄ ▓██ ▓█ ▓███▓ █▓ ██▓ ▄▄██▓ ██ ███▄ ▀████▄▄▄ ▄██ ▓█▄ ██▓ █▓ ██▄ ▄▄▄████▀ ▄▄██ █████▄▄ ▀███████▓████▀ ▀██ ██ █▓ ▄█ ██▀ ▀████▓███████▀▀ ▄█████ ██████▀ ▄█▓█▓█▓▓▓█▓ ▀████ ▓ ████▀ ▓█▓▓▓█▓█▓█▄ ▀██████ ████▀ ▄██▓▓█▓▓█▓█▓ ▄▄ ▀██▓ ▓██▀ ▄▄ ▓█▓▓█▓█▓▓██▄ ▀████ ██▀ ▄██▓▓█▓█▓▓█▓██▓ ▓██ ██▄ ▓██ ██▓ ▓██▓█▓▓█▓█▓▓██▄ ▀██ █▀ ███▓█▓█▓▓█▓██▓▀█▓ ▓████▄ ███▄▄ ▄▄██ ▄████▓ ▓█▀▓▓█▓█▓▓█▓█▓███ ▀█ █ ██▓█▓█▓▓█▓██▓█▓ ██ ▓███████▄ ▀█████ █████▀ ▄███████▓ ██ ▓█▓██▓█▓▓█▓█▓██ █ ▓█▓█▓█▓█▓▓█▓▓█▓█ ██ ▓████████▄ ▀██ ██▀ ▄████████▓ ██ █▓▓█▓█▓▓█▓█▓█▓██ ▓█▓▓▓█▓█▓█▓▓█▓██ ██ ▓█████████▄▄ █ █ ▄▄█████████▓ ██ ██▓█▓▓█▓▓██▓▓██▓ ███▓█▓█▓█▓███▀ ▓█▓ ▀▀█████████ █ █ █████████▀▀ ▓█▓ ▀███▓███▓▓█▓▓█ █▓██▓█▓█▓██▀ ▄█ ▓█▄▄ ▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀ ▄▄█▓ █▄ ▀██▓█▓█▓▓█▓█ █▓▓████▓██ ▄███▄▄ ▀████▄ ▄███ ██ ███▄ ▄████▀ ███▄ ██▓█▓███▓█ █▓▓█▓████ ▄███████▄▄ ▀▀██ ████▄▄▄ ████████ ▄▄▄████ ██▀▀ ▄▄██████▄ ▀███▓█▓▓█ ▓█▓▓█▓█▓ ▄███████████ █ ███▓ ▓██████ ▀▀▀▀ ██████▓ ▓███ █ ███████████ ▓█▓█▓▓█▓ ▓██████▓ ████████████ █ █▓ ▄ █▓█▓█▓▓████████▓▓█▓█▓█ ▄ ▓█ █ ███████████ ▓██▓███▓ ▓█▓█▓█ ▄████████████▄ █ █ ██ █ ▄ ███ ▓█ ███ ▄ █ ██ █ █ ▄███████████▄ █▓█▓█▓ ▓███▓ ▀█████████████▄ █ █▄▀█ ███ █ █ ▀▓ █ █ ███ █▀▄█ █ ▄████████████▀ ▓███▓ ▓███▓ ▀█████████████▄ █ ██▄▓ ▀██ ███ ▀ ██ █▀▀ ▓▄██ █ ▄████████████▀ ▓███▓ ▓████▄ ▀████████████▄ █ ▀████▄▄▓▄ ▀ ▓ ▀ ▓▄█████▀ █ ▄███████████▀ ▄████▓ ▀▀▓███▄▄ ▀▀█████████▄ █▄ ▀▀████████████▀▀ ▄█ ▄████████▀▀ ▄▄███▓▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀█████▄ ██▄▄ ▄▄██ ▄████▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀ ▀████▄▄▄ ▄▄▄████▀ ▀▀████████████▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀