Oh, and it’s got loads of that Mellotron thingy on it!

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I mean… Hell fire – THIS BAND ARE PINK FLOYD!  Well they’re not actually, but when you hear it, you’ll know exactly what we mean. You only have to listen to a snippet of the opening eight-minute gem: ‘Hole In The Sky’ to hear the Floyd influences in abundance, and from ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ in particular. Yet this is no mere clone or copyist act – it is a quality band with something fresh to offer, but they have a familiar way of saying it. Listen to the gorgeous soaring guitars, the full range of flowing keyboards, rhythms that sound just sensational and dreamy vocals and your are off into music heaven. The harmonies will make you go weak at the knees and the hairs will stand up on the back of your neck as you listen in wrapt attention to every second, every note, every lush facet of a the truly breathtaking instrumental arrangements. Straight from track 1 you’re hooked - your heart will beat that extra bit faster as the group evoke Floyd comparisons that range from the ‘Wish You Were Here’ era to the ‘Momentary Lapse Of Reason’ period. This hour long CD has huge crossover appeal and the pace and content are exactly what you’d expect – 13 tracks of sensational, exceptionally melodic progressive/space-symphonic rock - clean, crisp, dynamic, vibrant and immaculately produced/arranged. A faultless debut album, and it’s a cast iron cert that you won’t grudge a single penny of the asking price after you make this purchase.

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Try this – a Canadian band from year 2000 that is operating in the same musical territory as the mighty Spock’s Beard at times. It is a meeting of real prog-rock and so-called prog-metal, with similar angst filled vocals and harmonies. There’s a lot of muscle in the group’s sound and the arrangements are quite immense, as is the production. The playing is dynamic, the guitars come out strong and raunchy and the keyboards fly high. The songs are kept to reasonable lengths and never become overbearing or outstay their welcome. Averaging around six to seven minutes each, the 8 compositions have a towering sense of power that are possibly more geared toward listener who appreciates the more powerful side of prog-rock.

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Imagine Gandalf and first three albums-era Mike Oldfield together on one dual-composed and played album – sounds just to good to be true, eh? While that hasn’t happened here, the results of the music on the album would indicate otherwise, because this guy’s taken the vital elements of each artist’s music and made them into his own two-part fifty-minute instrumental epic. Not only that, it is an album that will keep you hooked throughout, in the best traditions of the aforementioned artists. But this differs in that the composer has kept his music more rudimentary and more simplistic. It doesn’t go with the indulgences each of the aforementioned artists can be prone to – Symphony orchestras in the case of Gandalf, humorous asides in the case of Oldfield – instead, he keeps it simple and basic with excellent melodic layers of guitars, synths, keyboards, bass and percussion, offering a more direct sound that will more than please the legions of admirers of both the artists to which we have made the comparisons. You don’t need a long-winded, note-by-note description; it’s quality stuff that will become as timeless a piece of music as albums by Gandalf and Oldfield have become.

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We have limited quantities of the rare 2CD edition of this album available – To order, use stock number: 776260

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The one USA band from the 70’s who really do sound like Yes in all departments! Their vinyl albums on Epic records were a sensation, with ‘Starcastle’, ‘Citadel’ & ‘Fountains Of Light’ all proving to be a good match for Yes in their ‘Time & A Word’,  ‘Yes Album’ & ‘Fragile’ period. ‘Chronos’ is an album of previously unreleased archive tracks from the six-man line-up. All the tracks are either totally unreleased or different versions of classics from the first two albums. But, the quality, in terms of sound and music, is superb from start to finish, so a rag-bag of demos this most certainly is not. Starcastle took all their cues from early Yes and made it their own as they pumped up the bass, added more organ and Mini-Moog solos and enhanced the vocal harmonies to an even greater degree, producing truly melodic tracks with big hooks and engaging harmonies. If anything, they were that touch more accessible than Yes, with tracks that swirled around your head for ages after playing them, but, most importantly, they were tracks that you really do want to play, over and over again. As fans of classic early Yes, we can see no reason at all why anyone of similar persuasion would not want an album by Starcastle, and while this is not the best starting point for the novice (try the self titled album we sell first), it’s a stunning CD by any stretch of the imagination - A real prog-rock classic to add to their first three albums from way back.

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