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│ METAL CLASSICS ARCHIVE │
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│ + Jose Del Rio - Journey Into The Fourth Dimension + │
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│║ Release Information ║ │
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│║ Release Date.Jun-05-2016 Encoder......L3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ║ │
│║ Genre........Instrumental Graber.......EAC ║ │
│║ Year.........2006 Khz/Bitrate..44,1/ Br ║ │
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│║ Ripper.......anthem Songs........12 ║ │
│║ Covers.......Yes Url... n/a ║ │
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│║ Release Notes ║ │
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│║ Artist : Jose Del Rio Rating : You Decide! ║ │
│║ Album : Journey Into The Fourth Dimensionel : Lion Music ║ │
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│║ Description : ║ │
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│║ Almost every CD that included the name of ║ │
│║ Vitalij Kuprij in line-up is interest object of ║ │
│║ mine. This time Ukrainian keymaster is a guest ║ │
│║ of Chilean guitar virtuoso. In my humble ║ │
│║ opinion, the most right qualification for a ║ │
│║ style that predominates on the CD is ║ │
│║ neoclassical shredding metal with ║ │
│║ orchestrations. Let's try to imagine yourself ║ │
│║ George Bellas' playing with symphonic elements ║ │
│║ added. That's the quintessence of Del Rio's ║ │
│║ music. Upon listening to such tracks like ║ │
│║ "Phantom Shadows", "Battlefields Of Glory", ║ │
│║ "Epic Dramatic For Electric Guitar & Keyboards" ║ │
│║ and album-crowning composition - "Flight Of The ║ │
│║ Bumblebee", we are entitled to call it ║ │
│║ "prestissimo music", that is music at a mad ║ │
│║ tempo indeed. Obviously, we must take ║ │
│║ peculiarity of the genre like shredding metal is ║ │
│║ into consideration, especially its ║ │
│║ characteristics: rapidity, precision, key and ║ │
│║ tempo turns, compositional complexity, and - in ║ │
│║ that case - even pompousness. Del Rio's guitar ║ │
│║ style can seem to be monotonous, so some ║ │
│║ listeners will regard it as a disadvantage. It's ║ │
│║ easy to tire the audience with such fast tempo ║ │
│║ with no common key and melodic changes at the ║ │
│║ same time. I admit that Chilean guitarist ia a ║ │
│║ representative of the most difficult kind of ║ │
│║ shredding metal in reception. It happens in such ║ │
│║ a way for two basic reasons. Firstly, the ║ │
│║ guitarist often breaks harmony principles (it ║ │
│║ means that listener has an impression of sonic ║ │
│║ chaos), and secondly - most tracks were composed ║ │
│║ on the basis of hardly-diverse repetitions. ║ │
│║ Surely, the alternation slow parts with fast ║ │
│║ ones is an advantage of the release. The album, ║ │
│║ as a whole, is very complex as regards ║ │
│║ instrumental: there is a typical Middle East ║ │
│║ instrument called sitar in "Oriental Fantasy"; ║ │
│║ we can hear baroque-inspired motifs in "Dreams ║ │
│║ Of Wisdom And Prophecy"; Felipe Porflitt's ║ │
│║ keyboard solos introduce necessary diversities; ║ │
│║ Vitalij Kuprij smuggles a progression here and ║ │
│║ there; Juan Francisco Rojas charmingly plays the ║ │
│║ recorder; and Pilar Aguilera along with Bernardo ║ │
│║ Rosselot(in "Nel Mezzo Del Cammir") beautifully ║ │
│║ perform their parts, being based on "Inferno" ║ │
│║ from "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri. ║ │
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│║ As we all know, we can like shredding metal or ║ │
│║ not, but can't disagree that its pefect command ║ │
│║ is a domain of not big, but elitist group of ║ │
│║ instrumentalists. It distinguished shredding ║ │
│║ metal over simple music subgenres. True enough, ║ │
│║ the listeners should possess the basics of the ║ │
│║ expertise to fully understand such album like ║ │
│║ "Journey Into The Fourth Dimension". Obviously, ║ │
│║ I am not thinking of our personal tastes, ║ │
│║ because that's another matter. If someone likes ║ │
│║ fast tempo, baroque reminiscences and majestic ║ │
│║ atmosphere, aforementioned album should meet all ║ │
│║ the requirements. ║ │
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│║ Release Tracklist ║ │
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│ 01 - introduction [01:04] │
│ 02 - phantom shadows [04:40] │
│ 03 - battlefields of glory [06:48] │
│ 04 - oriental fantasy [04:04] │
│ 05 - through the darkness [03:05] │
│ 06 - dreams of wisdom & prophecy [03:16] │
│ 07 - epic dramatic [09:21] │
│ 08 - psychophony [04:08] │
│ 09 - journey into the fourth dimension [12:11] │
│ 10 - nel mezzo del cammir [02:51] │
│ 11 - beyond the pillars of hercules [06:24] │
│ 12 - flight of the bumblebee (bonus track) [00:53] │
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│ Total Length : [58:45 minn │
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│ ║ Greetings To: ║ │
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│ Too all people who contributes to make this │
│ archive of good music in a exceptional conditions │
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