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Prelude To Apocalypse
13 Song CD
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3.WHEN HEAVEN OPENED
10.PRELUDE TO APOCALYPSE
12.ONE TRAIN
13.TRIALS
Welcome to sound bites from the Summer 2003 release of "PRELUDE TO APOCALYPSE". If you own or have listened to last summer's release, "THE ASCENDING MASQUERADE" you are aware of the fact that in the course of the disk the mood and the music moves in and out of Blues, Jazz, Country, and Singer-songwriter genres rather quickly and without warning. The accusation that I am trying to 'appeal to too broad an audience', or subject the listener to 'emotional yo-yoing' (see 'REVIEWS') may be true to a degree. Emotions are expressed by humans in an interesting variety of ways, and musical landscapes (in my humble opinion) offer the poignant attitudes of poetry a broad canvas for the color and shading the complexities of emotion requires.
For instance; what better way to convey the sadness of unrequited love than the slow Country Ballad? Or frustration, tearing at the frayed edges of Loud Intense Blues Rock. The underlying unity of this record if not in musical styling must then be in lyrical content expressed in a variety of ways. In the course of any given day, or for that matter perhaps in a split second the human mind is capable of either conjuring or experiencing a full range of emotions and all shades in between. So why not musically in a little less than one hour?