Seemed like a good idea at the time. Now I'm wondering whether I should perhaps have redone ZooCity instead. This was the first song where I felt the vocals were good enough on the original tape to not require rerecording. There were a few timing glitches but I managed to fix those by adding offsets to the synchronizer and re-transferring them.
I'm glad I avoided that annoying click in the original when I duck the other instruments around 2:52. Overall I don't think it turned out too badly. I think this is the song that used the most material from its original multitrack tape.
lyrics
Crystaltopia
(Original recording appears on 'The Mythical Creatures Exhibition', 2007)
Things cannot be the way they seem
It's like I fell into a dream
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"There is lambswool under my naked feet..." - those words always come to my mind while listening to the first bars of "Wide Of The Mark". There's undoubtedly quite some "Genesis" heritage to be found in the music on this album. However, the band that is most closely related to "The ID" is certainly "IQ", which is among the favorite bands and artists named by both Peter Albrektsen (gtr, kbd) and Tim Pepper (v, kbd). So the similarity of the names "ID" vs. "IQ" is obviously not purely coincidental. Being a long-time admirer of the creative output of "IQ", this album inevitably reaches my heart. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
The hard-hitting, genre-agnostic songs on the latest from Dan Webb were inspired by conversations he had with a wide range of musicians. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 18, 2023
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With its debut album, this young band from Vienna follows the footsteps of honorable Austrian prog masters like "Matter Of Taste". The music on this concept album is not of the kind I'd call particularly innovative - it travels pretty much on well known roads paved by many others long ago. However, these youngsters do it in a highly pleasant way, skillfully avoiding the pitfalls of pseudo-progressive phrase rehashing most of the time - certainly more successfully so than several of their experienced grand paragons of prog. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)