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Tale - Elysium fields  
(Baronhouse TMGCD2)  
    

When listening to the first two tracks you get a false image of the complete album. The entrance is rather bombastic, the rest is more in the vein of Floyd meets Supertramp. It's a very good and balanced concept album made by Rob Granville and Michael Stodart. The album 'Elysium fields is not the sequel of the Riverman cycle, but can be taken on itself. The new companionship of above mentioned performers resulted in this new material and sounds different from the first Tale album, though this one is full of choirs, orchestras and more Waters-like stuff. The songs and intermezzos are displayed in a large range of moods and styles, but the redline is the story of Joe Boliero who is in his dying days. After the outrageous opening theme the first real song 'Rape of the catacomb (part 2)' shows off an excellent Tale song ending up in a Gilmourian guitar-extacy. The album is full of extra sounds that makes this work stand as one. Throughout the story that this Tale Music Group tells us there are some nice highlights. The groovy 'Spirit train' and the orchestral parts in the middle and at the end and the very Supertramp-like ballad 'The card game'. Listen first, but if you like it you've got a fine album to enjoy. 

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