Artist...............: Fairport Convention
Album................: A Lasting Spirit - The Collection
Genre................: Progressive Rock
Source...............: Cd
Year.................: 1974 rem. 2005
Ripper...............: Exact Audio Copy
Codec................: Wav
Information..........: TntVillage
Covers...............: Front
Total Size...........: 340 Mb
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This German band released a couple of progressive albums before turning into heavy metal in the 80's. Their
debut "Fading Beauty" was a fairly decent attempt at making lush and atmospheric symphonic progressive
rock. Their ambitions here were clearly higher than their instrumental abilities and songwriting-skills at
this moment, but they were at least able to make a pleasant and atmospheric sound. Especially "Lingering
Cold" (part two of the 22-minute instrumental suite "Autumn Fantasia") is nice listening, although nothing
really outstanding or impressive. The sound is dominated by lots of organ, string-synths and guitar.
Everything is played very relaxed and laid-back, and the album suffered a bit from a lack of dynamics and
power after a while. The vocal-melodies of the 21-minute "Tharsis" are also not bad (unlike the vocals
itself), but the track is stretched out with lots of limp solo-parts that lack energy and engaging playing.
The lyrics are actually far more creative than the music sometimes. 70's progressive rock fanatics will
still find some amusing sides with this album, but casual listeners should probably stick with the band's
second LP.
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Tracklist
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01. Autumn: Fantasia
02. Tharsis
