Title: “Storms over still water”
Format: Album track
Written by: Bryan Josh
Performed by: Mostly Autumn
Genre: Progressive Rock
Taken from: Storms Over Still Water
Year: 2005
Acclaim: n/a
You'll be seeing a lot of Mostly Autumn in my new prog rock journal, as they're one of my favourite recent prog bands, fusing prog rock and folk effortlessly, and they have never yet disappointed me with an album. This is from their sixth, one of my favourites from them.
Opening on a gentle guitar strummed, it meanders along nicely for about a minute before vocal comes in alongside soft cello, the vocal initially a duet before Heather Findlay takes over, falling back to a duet with Bryan Josh, stately piano taking up the tune to the third minute, the whole thing then stopping for half a second before thumping, rolling percussion ushers in Bryan's solo vocal and the tempo picks up. Great guitar solo as we hit the fourth minute, taking us almost to the end with Floydesque backing vocals and finally a slow, softly strummed guitar ending. Excellent.
Things I like about this :
1. Heather's vocal
2. The soft intro
3. Bryan's stronger vocal
4. Cello
5. Guitar solo
6. Instrumental passage
7. Guitar ending
Things I don't like about this:
Nothing.
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