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Artist: Alias Eye
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Type: Audio CD [ View other products of this type ]
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Out of Print
Still available as a digital download from Mindawn.
It still exists, the good old Prog Rock. Okay, it never had been really gone, but the outstanding releases of the more recent past were few and far between. But just like Germany's CYDONIAN, their country-mates ALIAS EYE have just released their debut via Rising Sun! Their Prog Rock sounds fresh and is very song-oriented. The frill-factor also is on a reasonable label. The songs are to the point, even though they sometimes stray a little. But that is just what the Prog-community wants. The vocals of Philip Griffiths turn out to be very homogenous and listenable. There also are a few rather untypical instruments like saxophone or accordion, which adds to the variability.
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Audio samples:
 an end in itself
driven
field of names
hybrid
just another tragic song
mystery
premortal dance
river running
the readiness is all
wasteland
Album reviews:
Philip Griffiths and another band's mastermind, keyboard player Vytas Lemke, with the help of their colleagues, very talented musicians, have created an album unique in some ways. Call it Neo Prog-Metal or Classic Progressive Hard-Rock, "Field of Names" is an album of such high quality that, given a proper distribution, it will not only (yet obviously) make a lot of Prog-heads all over the world happy, but also, thanks to such specific nuances as a structural haziness of the album as a whole, bright and very tasteful themes, not too complex yet really ingenious arrangements, wonderful and diverse vocal parts should find a good response with a big audience. Sure, if "Field of Names" had been released in the middle of the 1980s, Alias Eye would've attained the same respected status as the bands like The Mission, Magnum, Pallas, and even Marillion had at the time, that were all great bands, based on major labels. In my view, Alias Eye is one of those several contemporary Prog bands that have a potential to become fresh and, the main thing, alive entities of already completely dead contemporary mainstream music.
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It still exists, the good old Prog Rock. Okay, it never had been really gone, but the outstanding releases of the more recent past were few and far between. But just like Germany's CYDONIAN, their country-mates ALIAS EYE have just released their debut via Rising Sun! Their Prog Rock sounds fresh and is very song-oriented. The frill-factor also is on a reasonable label. The songs are to the point, even though they sometimes stray a little. But that is just what the Prog-community wants. The vocals of Philip Griffiths turn out to be very homogenous and listenable. There also are a few rather untypical instruments like saxophone or accordion, which adds to the variability. The Prog-scene already had celebrated the demo of the Mannheim-band, for the typical Metal-freak this album is fairly uninteresting! A pity, because I think that this debut is more than remarkable and I really cross my fingers for ALIAS EYE. Great music!
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Alias Eye was founded in late 1998 when Philip Griffiths (vocals), Matthias Richter (guitar), Frank Fischer (bass) and Ludwig Benedek (drums) teamed up with keyboarder Vytas Lemke. After releasing a debut demo CD "Beyond the Mirror" in 1999, they signed with the Dutch label DVS Records. Graced by, probably, Mattias Noren's best artwork to date, this release comes across as very mature and well-developed. I must admit that art rock is normally not my preferred genre because I usually associate it with lightweight and long drawn pretentious songs. Luckily, Alias Eye's music is very vocal and chorus-oriented while the instrumental indulgences are limited. The songs have a definite catchiness with recognisable choruses without being cheesy. I had seen them live before hearing the CD and a lot of the parts like the chorus to "Driven" were still channelling through my subconscious. In general the songs have a laid-back atmosphere showing the different shades of rock, funk, and jazz to classical. The music is carried by the soulful voice of Philip Griffiths.
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"Field of names" has the quality to take all prog charts by storm. This german band has recorded an album that surely will become a classic: Great atmosphere, skilled songwriting, great technical skills always serving the song instead of the technical weirdos, wide melodies, defensive complexity, professional arrangements, entertaining joy of playing prog music and last but not least one of the best singers of the german prog scene. The sound of this release is as perfect as the artwork (Mattias Noren, who else). Soft melancholie, jazzin' fun, neoprogressive hymns, symphonic chords, soft complexity and groove ... ALIAS EYE love the music they play and so will you. ALIAS EYE have recorded a progressive opus, which easily can compete with the releases of the big progressive bands ... spectacular !
10 points
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