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Carvin Guitars
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"Cinefusion" Review Featured In Progressor Progressive Rock, December, 2001
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Rare Blend
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Review of "Cinefusion"
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By: Vitaly Menshikov
ll of the compositions on this album are excellent, being cleverly composed, tastefully arranged, and masterfully performed. Four of them, though, are slightly more diverse and rich in progressive ingredients than the remaining three tracks. These are: The Odyssey, Black Rain, Isabella, and Fallout At 2114 (tracks 2, 3, 4, & 8 respectively). Each of these pieces contain many truly progressive ingredients, such as the frequent changes of basic themes and tempos, diverse and always interesting arrangements, tasteful solos and interplay between varied instruments, etc. In particular, The Odyssey begins with a wonderful trio of the fluid solos and interplay between electric and bass guitars, and keyboards, while the parts of each of these instruments are different. After the 'heavy' arrangements, that, with the strong guitar riffs and interplay between masterful solos of electric and bass guitars, go up-tempo in the middle of the piece, music suddenly 'falls' into a purely symphonic realm with slow yet a very impressive trio of passages of synthesizer and piano, and fluid solos of guitar. The radical changes of the musical palettes are also typical for the album's last track Fallout At 2114. Despite the fact that both Black Rain and Isabella are purely Art-Rock-y / Symphonic pieces, there are enough of essential progressive ingredients in their diverse arrangements.
There is quite a dramatic and very intriguing atmosphere on Black Rain, while Isabella contains a couple of parts coloured by hot Spanish rhythms. From the remaining three compositions, Breaking the Sound Barrier and Virtual Reality (tracks 1 & 5) represent a very tasteful blend of Neo Art-Rock and Prog-Metal, whereas The Old Man And the Sea is filled with purely symphonic structures. Rather accessible and yet very impressive and touching, this is the only track on the album in which passages of acoustic and semi-acoustic guitars play a really evident part. All in all, Rare Blend's "Cinefusion" is, in my view, the best instrumental album within the framework of Neo Progressive.
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Vitaly Menshikov / Progressor Progressive Rock
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