The centre of the album is very mellow and the last part is more for the heavy songs. On Space Time it is back to the rock music with a bluesy twist, this is continued on Lucky which has a bluesy style like Robben Ford. I thought the only song with additional musicians would be the technical heavy song but this is not the case. Sunrise is another mellow song which makes the middle the mellow heart of the album. 1512 is more laid back and the start of Geoid is even more relaxing but after a minute or so the rock kicks in. Stardust is a more guitar hero song, again nice melodies but also has heavy parts. Halfway it changes to a more eastern sounding influences and reminds me of Jimmy Page. Opener Tribute is a rock song starting with a pounding rhythm and a guitar melody. The main point of this album is playing good music and each song has another angle of approach but still keeping it coherent as an album. Dan Jones does all this without showing off in technical trickery. Dan Jones style is a mixture of Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, David Gilmour and Robben Ford. Zero Four Nine is an instrumental album with a variety of (guitar) styles varying between blues, rock and prog. On the song Sunshine Dan is accompanied by Dave Odart (drums) and Clive Rainbow (bass). Zero Four Nine is a solo release by Dan on which he does almost all the instruments and programming. The Dreaming Tree was formed just after the millennium and released four albums of which the last, Silverfade, was released in 2015. I just listened to some samples and found it likeable enough for me to review.ĭan Jones is a guitarist from the UK and guitar player for the band The Dreaming Tree. When starting with this review Dan Jones was unknown to me. Oh and it's a name-your-price on Bandcamp. Remember when LP sleeves had the instruction to 'Play Loud' on them? With Closet Disco Queen & The Flying Raclettes it should read 'Play EXTRA Loud'. It displays a band fully focussed on rocking riffs who just can't be bothered to waste time on a ballad. I adore the live feel and clear mix of Omellete du Fromage. Imagine Adrien Belew meeting David Torn with help from Marcus Rueter and Jimmy Page, deconstructing Mars Volta covers in an eclectic and electrifying way. This is how you do guitar pyrotechnics without going down the shredding route. The scratchy guitar evokes cosmic static but then it explodes into heaviness in a brilliant way.Ĭloset Disco Queen & The Flying Raclettes' album is the big cheese as far as heavy prog instrumentals go. The longest track, Gigadodane, is introduced with a drum pattern that is joined by loose, funky bass. When the drums drop out, the music pauses into squally guitars and spacey disturbances until the drums crash back in for the head-banging finale. Melolo-Aromatomat gets up to speed immediately with the full band on fire. The ghostly presence of 1970s hard-rocking blues haunts the metallic clashes and clever arrangement of Goussepaille.Īll the short works are terrific, but the best ingredient in the making of the Omellete du Fromage are the two lengthier tracks that open and close the album. On the other shorter pieces there is an earworm melody enveloped in grinding riffs on Flugensaft. However, it gives up and crashes into feedback and banging riffs as, out of the right hand channel, comes a guitar solo of atmospheric, controlled and tuneful guitar noise. It has a driving, goth-like bass that the picked electric guitar chases after with the melody. The first of the shorter tracks, is the splendidly named Glutentag. The album is bookended by two longer tracks, with five shorter but densely packed numbers in the middle that rock like a Victorian child with an unwed mother. If the band name is making you pause, be assured there is no Disco here, and the Closet has been demolished by the seven, ruthless, fast-paced, fat-free, heavy prog, rocking instrumentals on Omellete du Fromage. They have joined forces with Kevin Galland (guitars) who also plays in Coilguns and Chadi Messmer (a graduate bass player from the Luzern Jazz School) who style themselves as The Flying Raclettes. So when he awakes it is all he can say, and with it he becomes a worldwide celebrity.Ĭloset Disco Queen are an instrumental duo made of Luc Hess (drums) and Jona Nido (guitars) from Coilguns, The Ocean, Louis Jucker, etc. In it, Dexter's new invention allows him to learn French as he sleeps but the record gets stuck on the repeating phrase 'Omellete du Fromage'. The title comes from an episode called The Big Cheese from the 1990s Cartoon Network series 'Dexter's Laboratory'. The temptation in reviewing the Closet Disco Queen & The Flying Raclettes' album Omellete du Fromage is to go all out for food-related jokes, but I'll do my best to resist.
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