Dosvidanya, Comrade Anteater!
Artiste: The Gourishankar
Nationality: Russian
Album: 2nd Hands
Year: 2007
Label: Unicorn Digital
Genre: Progressive Rock. Well, sort of. Hard to tie down really.
Tracks
Moon7
Endless drama
Queer forest
Taste a cake
The inexpressible chagrin
Syx
... End
Marvellous choice
Chronological position: Second album
Familiarity: The tiniest bit, thanks to Anteater
Interesting Factoid: “Gourishankar” means “the mountain as high as Everest”. Now you know.
Impression: Interesting, but a little too much going on all at once.
Best track(s): Endless drama, Taste a cake, The inexpressible chagrin, ...End
Worst track(s):Moon7, Marvellous choice (overlong at 18 minutes and wanders too much)
Intention: Listen to more, if more can be found!
Comments: The music is excellent, however the start/stop nature of the singing --- not to mention the often indiscernible vocals --- make it often seem as if I'm listening to a corrupt file; music sort of jumps up like a dolphin leaping out of the water before just as quickly darting back under the surface and swimming away, and singing hits then runs before you have a chance to even realise it's there. There are, as Anteater mentioned in his review, a huge variety of styles and genres used by the Gourishankar, but in some ways I think it's a case of trying to force too much into one box: eventually it'll split. When they get it right though, --- and in fairness, a lot of the time they do --- it's really quite special, and I'll be trying to hunt down the rest of their catalogue, though this one was hard enough to track down. Ant? Any help, mate?
