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AFTER CRYING
"Bootleg
Symphony"
(Periferic
Records, 2001)
Spectacular live disk with orchestra of the
remarkable Hungarian band, considered by many as the best in the world.
If you could already consider to After Crying music like
classic, this disk confirms it as such. The recording corresponds to the presentation of
October of 2000, 2 in the Liszt Ferenc Academy Of Music of Budapest, when the band
was presented next to an orchestra of thirty three musicians to interpret a selection of
its best themes.
These pieces were re-fixed by Peter Pejtsik and Bálazs Winkler, the
two leaders compossitives of the band, for their orchestral interpretation. And beyond
that the usual versions of the band for itself were already spectacular, this new form of
appreciating them elevates them to an epic and majestic tone that up to now it was only
suspected that they could reach.
Already from the first theme, " Viaduct ", you can
appreciate the orchestra's influence in the disk, for anything relegated to a second plane
or to give simple colors to After Crying music, but willing to become main
character of the arrangements, at the same time of the band. This is made even more
evident in the versions of "Struggle For Life I" and "Struggle For Life
II" that sound really majestic.
The beautiful "Cool Night", with Zoltán Lengyel's piano
creating wonderful passages, gives place to an unpublished topic, " Night-Red ".
Here the orchestra is presented in first plane, with an evidently compound theme for
orchestra and group, with the band entering to full and Ferenc Torma's electric guitar
like leader. A virtual sound band for a movie never made.
Later on we find to the third block of topics, with the fineness of
"Aqua", the dynamics of "Intermezzo", and the mocking and rhythmic
melody of "Burlesque", with rag passages to the Wakeman in "Merlín".
The fourth and last part offers to "Finale" and to "
Shinin ". The first one is a dark and ominous theme, with the orchestra accentuating
that climate that also had the original version, while the second and extensive piece (the
longest in the album with more than eleven minutes) it is a true symphonic creation, as
much in structure as in sound. A brilliant closing for a memorable disk.
After Crying is one of the biggest bands in symphonic rock of
the world. And now this album positions them like one of the best symphonic bands in the
planet.
An indispensable piece for any lover of the music.
Andrés Valle
andresvalle@interlink.com.ar
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