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T - "Voices"

Home Page- Galileo
Reviewed by: Jerry Lucky
Genre: Prog Rock
Country: Germany
Language: English
Length: 73:00
Release Date: 3/8/2006
Label:
Galileo Records
Band Members: All Voices and Instruments Performed by T  
   
Track Listing: 1.)- Voices - 6:04 8.)-After - 4:53
  2.)- August in Me - 4:50 9.)- Curtain Call - 8:12
  3.)- Party Piece - 5:34 10.)-Forget Me Now - 9:02
  4.)-Still - 7:23 11.)-Ghosts - 8:28
  5.)- Septic - 6:25  
  6.)-Faith - 6:08  
  7.)-Second Thoughts - 6:21
     
The Review

You have to wonder what it is that motivates an artist to create within the progressive rock genre. It certainly wouldn’t be because of financial reward or finding the quick and easy path to fame. And yet we are graced with individuals who make that decision. Individuals like former Scythe guitar player Thomas Thielen who now goes by the name of “T”. His new release is entitled Voices and as a loose concept each of the CD’s eleven tracks deals with the voices we hear in our heads in different situations throughout our lifetime. ***

It’s been four years since his first solo effort and over that time T has matured both as an individual and an artist. Voices is very much a one-man-show with T retaining total control of his compositions, writing, performing and singing everything. But the music created sounds very much like a band performing. He is very adept at a wide range of instruments and his skill shows. The compositions are mostly in the six-minute range with the longest being just under ten-minutes. ***

The music created on Voices is moody, dramatic, and full of emotion. There is an over-riding sense of darkness that pervades these pieces. Many of the compositions tend to start soft and build in intensity. Along the way you encounter moments of soft acoustic guitar or piano only to have the sound morph into full lush orchestrated passages. The overall sense I got while listening is that this isn’t a CD full of a lot of soloing on any particular instrument. There is some of that of course, but over all the music tends to present itself as more of a rich panorama of sound. T tends to work at developing musical-atmospheres to help convey the sense of the lyrics and in that regard there are many moments where the music is very dense and orchestrated. Running through the compositions is also a sense of anxiety or angst. ***

As a reference the music and vocal style of Voices reminds me a lot of Marillion’s Brave which was one of their best recent efforts. And certainly if you enjoyed that you’ll enjoy what T has created on Voices. This is a CD that takes a few spins to warm up to but it really grows on you and like most music of this nature the more times you listen the more you come to appreciate both the lyrical and musical depth that’s present. This is an admirable follow-up to Naïve and in this case the T obviously stands for ‘talent.’ Let’s hope it doesn’t take another four years for the next release. ***

 

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