Gnosis Ratings

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Sjef Oellers 11-Mar-2001 Mainstream

Mainstream starts with a haunting, minimalistic piano theme, spacey electronics/keyboards (by Brian Eno) and distorted guitar soloing on top. Suddenly, the main theme sets in showing a strong Canterbury influence. After a few minutes the track departs to spacier realms with some slightly dissonant guitar soloing reminding more of Robert Fripp than Phil Manzanera (in Roxy Music). This track is very representative of the whole album: touches of Canterbury, jazz rock, free rock, and the weirder Roxy Music parts are well integrated. The result is fantastic, mostly instrumental music with a fair degree of complexity and some slightly dissonant guitar riffing now and then, with enough nice keyboard melodies and good guitar riffs that appear right on time. Although there is quite a lot of good guitar soloing, there is little self-indulgent, endless jamming. A strange, maybe even detached, but ever-engaging album. A classic!

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Sjef Oellers	11-Mar-2001	Mainstream
Mainstream starts with a haunting, minimalistic piano theme, spacey electronics/keyboards (by Brian Eno) and distorted guitar soloing on top. Suddenly, the main theme sets in showing a strong Canterbury influence. After a few minutes the track departs to spacier realms with some slightly dissonant guitar soloing reminding more of Robert Fripp than Phil Manzanera (in Roxy Music). This track is very representative of the whole album: touches of Canterbury, jazz rock, free rock, and the weirder Roxy Music parts are well integrated. The result is fantastic, mostly instrumental music with a fair degree of complexity and some slightly dissonant guitar riffing now and then, with enough nice keyboard melodies and good guitar riffs that appear right on time. Although there is quite a lot of good guitar soloing, there is little self-indulgent, endless jamming. A strange, maybe even detached, but ever-engaging album. A classic!
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