Falling Skies
Sergey Boykov
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December 4, 2014
A very tonic sonic design demanding and complex, stylistically quite similar to his main band VITAL SCIENCE enhanced with lot of surprising improvements borrowed to other genres, the Estonian keyboard virtuoso Sergey Boykov unleash an impressive slab of high tech instrumentals, a manifesto of furious skills, eight cuts of a crossover of genres with mastery, helped in his task by many usual suspects of the Underground Prog Metal worldwide scene such as Marco Minnemann (THE ARISTOCRATS/NECROPHAGIST), Alberto Rigoni (TWINSPIRITS) or Ray Riendeau (exHALFORD) with axe soloists like Shrapnel's recording artist Fabrizio Leo, Hedras Ramos or Joop Wolters .
The Jazzy and mellow influenced ambiances are challenging the lava flood of shredding parts and the algebraic polynomial patterns or the bombastic moments are counterbalanced by the more sensitive segments... A masterpiece when it comes to cerebral Metal or esoteric Progressive Jazz Rock... A rollercoaster of emotions, an alambique of structures, a theorem of perplexing riffs, each theme is in succession with ethereal soundscapes, obviously rewarding and exultant for the initiated listeners, and clearly recommended for the connoisseurs of non easy listening music... Think SPASTIC INK meets TRIBAL TECH doing RETURN TO FOREVER songs at a PLANET X show!
Warning Metalheads : If you need 3 minutes hit-single with massive commercial hooks then avoid this stupendous album and stay away from this piece of abstract modern art . Of course, on the flip side this ambitious solo album is recommended to rigorous lovers of vertiginous music with many challenging parts and to the admirers of difficult instrumentation interplays with an ultra hi-level of playing!
Once again the wise guys from PowerProg Records are giving a run for their money for those who think that intellectual music belongs to the past, and Sergey Boykov is reaching the highest part of the first league of Metal Keyboadist along with Vitalij Kuprij/Kevin Moore/Richard Andersson/Derek Sherinian and the ultimate maestro Jens Johansson.
9 / 10
Almost Perfect
"Falling Skies" Track-listing:
1. Spider Dance
2. Sea Of Tranquility
3. Falling Skies
4. Island Of Dreams
5. Never Turn Back
6. Solitary
7. Everything Can Change
8. New Birth Of Freedom
Sergey Boykov Lineup:
Various Artists
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