Artist:
Mechanical Poet
Album: Woodland
Prattlers
Year: 2004
Line-Up: Maxim
Samosvat – Vocals
Lex
Plotnikoff – Guitars, bass, keyboards
Tom
Tokmakoff – Drums, bass, keyboards
Label: Aural
Music
After
the glorious years of famous Russian contemporary composers, the
Russian music industry hasn’t been that global counting out few
exceptions. Huge neighbor of Finland, the mighty mother Russia
consists of over hundred million people, but how many Russian metal
bands –for example- can you name? Well if you couldn’t name any,
at least you can name now.
Mechanical
Poet comes from Russia and brings some rather interesting influences
to symphonic progressive metal. I couldn’t describe their music on
this debut album in just one sentence; the variety of the soundscape
is huge: after rumbling riffs and speedy drumming mister Samosvat
offers us his tremendous warm voice with full of emotion singing
mystical ballads. The album kicks off and finishes in Disney-like,
almost classical intro (Main Titles) and outro (Ending Credits) and
all in between is like a magical fairytale through fire and water,
through strong and mellow, and through comedy and tragedy. The
highpoint of the album is a track in the middle called “Natural
Quaternion: Sylphs/Gnomes/Undines/Salamanders” running over ten
minutes, summarizing everything that I mentioned above and displays
the amazing abilities and diversity of the vocalist Max Samosvat.
Founded
on the ruins of Russian avant-garde act Glazemaker in 2002, the tale
of Mechanical Poet unfortunately is likely to remain a short-story:
After Woodland Prattlers, some line-up changes and few concept albums
the band played their last gig in 2009.”Woodland Prattlers” was
released together with Mechanical Poet’s EP called “Handmade
Essence” by Aural Music, an Italian independent metal label
concentrating on metal and rock, avant-garde, black metal, death
metal, progressive, industrial, ambient, dark. It was founded in
1998.
This
album a very enjoyable ride, all fans of metal might appreciate it.
Here is Mechanical Poet - Natural Quaternion:
Sylphs/Gnomes/Undines/Salamanders
Written
by: Oz
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