Colin Masson is the leader of
the group of progressive folk The Morrigan, kind of a Steeleye Span modern .
This is their first disk in solitary, in which takes charge of practically all the
instruments, of the production and, even, of the drawing of the cover. The work is divided
in three themes:
The first court of the CD "Isle Of
Eight", hard but of 25 minutes. It is a ' suite', in the sense that this compound
for a concatenation of topics but or less complex in their games of reasons, in the style
of, without going but far, the "Tubular Bells". Although it doesn't lack
aggressive moments, it is a cut that balances but toward the side folk, with special
quality in the passages of medieval court. Those (few) voices that appear toward half of
the cut they are courtesy of Cathy Alexander, also vocalist of The Morrigan that
sounds like kind of a John Anderson feminine , but of bell something but it burdens.
"Total Eclipses", the second theme,
is more aggressive, but I release (27 minutes) and more progressive, in the sense that if
that can speak of ' a theme' with different structured reasons in a more complex way that
the previous court. It possesses more emotion that comes off of the constant game of
moments of darkness likewise / brightness that he suggests titles. Again there is a brief
vocal moment that precedes to the climax of the topic that surprisingly ends up in a '
fade'. This incomprehensible one finishes option it is the only ballast of that that, for
me, it is the best topic in this year. Mainly because, as much this as the previous one,
never arrive neither to bore neither to oppress.
Lastly, "Return to the Nothern
Wasteland", of 13 minutes of duration and that it begins with an atmospheric
passage that introduces a rhythmic section with a guitar something distorted for above.
Next, another longer atmospheric passage that ends in the previous rhythm, this time
accompanying, first to a mandolin, and then to an electric guitar. The intention is to go
going up the theme little by little until the climax, but in my opinion, as much the
tension as the own end are not achieved completely.
In definitive, my favorite disk of the year, and,
like they say many you criticize, the one that Oldfield had made if lately
something was not lost.