IQ : Tales From a Dark Christmas
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Yllärituotos vuodelta 2017. Levyä jaettiin ilmaiseksi! kaikille ( the 20th London Christmas Bash )
bändin joulukonserttiin osallistuneille.
Kovia hintoja discogsissa kyseisestä tuotteesta.
1. Christmas Intro / For Christ's Sake (8:25)
2. I Believe In Father Christmas (5:51)
3. Merry Xmas Everybody (5:37)
4. O Tannenbaum (4:16)
5. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (5:08)
6. The Dark Christmas Suite (20:25)
Total time 49:42
The center stage of this record is taken by the twenty minute epic 'The Dark Christmas Suite'. IQ combines re-arranged - sometimes barely recognizable - Christmas classics with dark brooding symphonic interludes. Especially the opening section is pretty bleak, almost frightening. I love Peter Nicholls' fearful singing on the 'Winter Wonder Land' section. It is followed by short sections that would have fit in IQ's most recent masterpiece 'The Great Spirit Way', but are in fact (at least lyrically) covers of 'We Can Build A Snow Man', 'We Three Kings' and 'Star of Wonder' and 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town'. The gothic section is beautiful (it reminds me a bit of Arena's ending section of 'A Crack in the Ice'), as the band continues with 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentle Man' and finishes with 'The First Noel'. All in good taste and classic IQ prowess.
bändin joulukonserttiin osallistuneille.
Kovia hintoja discogsissa kyseisestä tuotteesta.
1. Christmas Intro / For Christ's Sake (8:25)
2. I Believe In Father Christmas (5:51)
3. Merry Xmas Everybody (5:37)
4. O Tannenbaum (4:16)
5. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (5:08)
6. The Dark Christmas Suite (20:25)
Total time 49:42
The center stage of this record is taken by the twenty minute epic 'The Dark Christmas Suite'. IQ combines re-arranged - sometimes barely recognizable - Christmas classics with dark brooding symphonic interludes. Especially the opening section is pretty bleak, almost frightening. I love Peter Nicholls' fearful singing on the 'Winter Wonder Land' section. It is followed by short sections that would have fit in IQ's most recent masterpiece 'The Great Spirit Way', but are in fact (at least lyrically) covers of 'We Can Build A Snow Man', 'We Three Kings' and 'Star of Wonder' and 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town'. The gothic section is beautiful (it reminds me a bit of Arena's ending section of 'A Crack in the Ice'), as the band continues with 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentle Man' and finishes with 'The First Noel'. All in good taste and classic IQ prowess.
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Hieno joululevy!
Levystä tuli kerta heitolla tämän joulun soundtrack.
Joo, hyvä joululevy tosiaan. Enpä tuolle "dark"-jutulle anna paljonkaan painoo.
Ehkä äijjät eivät tahtoneet hempeillä liikoja ;)