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Artist: Magic Pie
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Type: Audio CD [ View other products of this type ]
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The characteristic and unique Magic Pie sound is founded on strong melodious songs, blended by powerful vocal arrangements, sparkling guitar riffs, 70’s organ and synths, and solid bass and drum work. The music embraces a wide spectre of styles, changing from the softest emotional piece to the more heavy metal riffs.
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Audio samples:
 1. Change
2. Motions of Desire
3. Full Circle Poetry
4. Without Knowing Why
5. Illusion & Reality - Part 1
6. Illusion & Reality - Part 3
7. Illusion & Reality - Part 4
8. Dream Vision
Album reviews:
...It is true that Change is a masterful piece of prog music, yet along with that song, there is still yet more great music that comes in the following tracks. First let me say that Magic Pie are all excellent musicians, and as a unit, their music is sincere, original and truely enjoyable to sit and listen to. If any modern band comes close to what Magic Pie is doing, it would be Sweden's Flower Kings, in that they are truely paying homage to the greats of yesteryear, while adding some modern day nuances and swerve and swagger to their all-original musical exploits.
If the comparison to the Flower Kings gives you and indication whether you would like them or not, you seriously owe it to yourself to go to the bands website and hear the mp3's yourself. They are not cloning anyone, but have some similarities, but in many ways, they may have an even more original, less derivative feel than that of the Flower Kings, and without question a better guitarist in - Kim Stenberg, who plays some of the most inventive guitar I have heard in a true progressive rock band in a good long time. His style and talent level are a big reason that Magic Pie can pull of such an array of musical challenges. They also list two lead vocalists, and a great keyboardist in Gilbert Marshall, who also does lead vocals, yet as many vocalists as they have, the music represents the bands' strongest assets...
Read full story at http://www.proggnosis.com/PGRelease.asp?RID=15637
...Magic Pie are from Norway but they might as well be from Pennsylvania (isn't everyone?), for they sound decidedly American. In fact, let me peel off a few bands right now that I hear: Echolyn, Spock's Beard and Project814 (though I'll grant that the last is probably just me, but that's what I hear in the peppy rocker "Without Knowing Why"). And yet, peel back the crust and there's also a handful of imported flavors - The Flower Kings, Marillion, Pendragon and Big Country (yes, the latter may just be me, too, but at times vocalist Eirick Hansen sounds like the late Stuart Adamson, most especially in the title track "Motions Of Desire") I should also say that MP sound like Kansas ... a bit... in "Without..." especially in the instrumental section. Where TFK come in is in the prominence of guitar and keyboards, especially in the opening slice "Change," which does change, from strident, classically epic FK styled-prog, to smooth harmonized vocals that will stick in your brain for some time (and has in mine actually), to about halfway through, it changes into jazz territory, lead by the guitar playing of and the organ work of... which soon ignites into a fiery fusion workout full of guitar and piano.
I mentioned Echolyn, but the comparison is mostly about a certain American sensibility (as in senses, sound, style, not that Americans are, in any way, sensible people... Okay, some are, but not all). It's not quite the Americana of Cowboy Poems Free... actually, you'd have to look a bit earlier and later in the Echolyn oeuvre. It comes in some of the vocal style, which I guess hark back also to Gentle Giant, but with a modern-times bravado (again cf. SB). The warm and fuzzy harmonized choruses tap into... well... coincidentally, some of the same wells as Umphrey's McGee*. And before you think I'm going to utter the "dreaded" n-word (the three letter one that is usually followed by prog), no, I wouldn't say that MP are ahem..."neo"... even if I did mention Marillion and Pendragon... actually, it's just that I hear briefly these two bands mainly in the guitar, which is stylistically like Rothery/Barrett, but not tonally, and perhaps a little brighter and lighter in tone, especially in the parpy keyboards...
Read full story at http://www.progressiveworld.net/html/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=1267
...The opening 20-minute epic "Change" covers every spectrum of progressive rock, from some catchy acoustic moments, to searing prog-metal, to flat out symphonic rock littered with Hammond and guitar interplay. It's really hard to say just who is the star of the show here, as the whole band just shines on every song. Guitarist Kim Stenberg is a monster player, both on electric & acoustic, and the man can shred when he wants to, or lay down a gorgeous melodic passage, plus he can churn out some mean rhythms and riffs as well. Keyboard ace Gilbert Marshall plays a mean Hammond organ as well as various synths, and the rhythm tandem of bassist Lars Petter Holstad and drummer Jan T. Johannessen lock into some incredibly tight and intricate grooves. Vocally, Magic Pie are quite strong as well, and in fact they have three singers, Eirik Hanssen, Allan Olsen, as well as Marshall. Style wise, and it's not noted in the booklet who sings what, one of them sounds like Trent Gardner from Magellan, and you also hear some Roine Stolt and Nick D'Virgilio influences at times as well. There's plenty of harmonies, which gives the vocals a real strong quality as to not get drowned out by the intense musical fireworks going on around them...
Read full story at http://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=2703
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