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░ ██ ██ Artist: Clepsydra ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Hologram █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2014 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2015-03-28 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Progressive Rock ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Galileo Records ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Remastered ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ This debut by Clepsydra has never been my █
█ favourite album. The brilliant and outstanding █
█ band they appeared to be with their next three █
█ wasn't really coming through with this one. But I █
█ will give it a fair review because I owe it to █
█ this band that has been an important one in my █
█ life I can say after all these years. █
█ Hologram is a typical neo album, more than the █
█ other three that went slightly in a symphonical █
█ style, let's say a band in between neo and symph. █
█ After a short overture New Day (part one) is █
█ proving my statement, neo example no.1, can't █
█ think of a better one. This song reminds me of █
█ Dutch band Differences, same guitar sound and █
█ apparantly same production quality because it █
█ sounds so much the same, but this is not really a █
█ compliment because production is at best mediocre. █
█ Funny enough another similarity with Differences █
█ is the obscure way they show themselves in the █
█ booklet with a very vague photograph where █
█ Differences even had covered eyes as if the █
█ neobands in the early nineties were too shy to █
█ show themselves. Interesting aspect. 4107 begins █
█ to sound a little bit like their latter impressive █
█ style but this one still sounds a bit shy. █
█ Fleeting Moments is a mediocre track followed by █
█ Fading Clouds of Time sounding much more █
█ impressive as a composition, well played with █
█ spirit. Poem for a rainy day is what the title █
█ suggests a sort of small poem (instrumental █
█ ballad). New Day (pt.2) is better than part one, █
█ another example that this band was already showing █
█ potential, how I love this band when they play █
█ songs like this, 100% my taste ! Sandflow is the █
█ second instrumental track but this one is a bit █
█ heavier than the first. For her Eyes is an average █
█ Clepsydra track, good but not excellent. Steve and █
█ Jane is a ballad with lyrics this time, a song █
█ somewhat like the shorter songs on their album █
█ Fears again not quite one of my big fav's but not █
█ really bad either. Third part of New Day is a sort █
█ of instrumental intermezzo before the title track █
█ and second highlight for me is a bit of the grand █
█ finale of the album because the closing █
█ instrumental is a very short one. █
█ █
█ Conclusion: a good and promising album but not █
█ coming close to the other three for me and that's █
█ not just due to mediocre production quality. The █
█ compostions also had to mature after this debut to █
█ be able to call them a great and professional █
█ band. So if you start with this album to check the █
█ band out this information is essential. Taking all █
█ four is in that case a good advice. If you already █
█ have the other three then this is more for █
█ completionists. █
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░ 1. Sunrise 1:21 ░
░ 2. New Day (Part One) 5:16 ░
░ 3. 4107 5:16 ░
░ 4. Fleeting Moment 3:18 ░
░ 5. Facing Clouds of Time 3:54 ░
░ 6. Poem for a Rainy Day 2:15 ░
░ 7. New Day (Part Two) 6:16 ░
░ 8. Sandflow 3:22 ░
░ 9. For Her Eyes 5:11 ░
░ 10. Steve and Jane 5:24 ░
░ 11. New Day (Part Three) 2:05 ░
░ 12. Hologram 7:47 ░
░ 13. Sunset 1:24 ░
░ 14. No Place for Flowers (Raw Mix, 7:06 ░
░ Alternative Drum Track and Percussion, ░
░ Abridged, 1994) (Bonus Track) ░
░ 15. Into My Cartoon (Demo Tape, Edited, 3:24 ░
░ 1997) (Bonus Track) ░
░ 16. For Her Eyes (Bonus Track for Japanese 3:49 ░
░ ½Fears╗ Version, Edited, 1997) (Bonus ░
░ Track) ░
░ 17. The Nineteenth Hole (Live in Barcelona, 8:44 ░
░ Spain, 1998) (Bonus Track) ░
░ 75:52 ░
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