Moon Safari

Salut! Sunt un ascultator impatimit de prog rock si ma bucur ca exista acest forum pentru cei ca si mine sau si mai si. Ascult multe trupe si multi solisti si prog si de alte genuri, dar printre primii 10 se numarau pana de curand Zappa, Camel, Steve Hackett, Genesis, Yes, Mike Oldfield, Rush, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Rennaisance ...
Dar a aparut o trupa care mi-a acaparat cu cel de-al doilea album orizonturile muzicale si care s-a strecurat foarte repede printre cei de mai sus, unde sade foarte confortabil. V-o recomand si voua si sper sa va placa cat mai mult.
Este vorba despre trupa Moon Safari din Suedia, formata destul de curand, in 2003 mai precis, care a inregistrat pana acum doua albume, primul A Doorway To Summer, apreciat ca un Beatles prog (nu stiu de ce, mi se pare o exagerare, e un album bunicel si atat, un debut care putea fi urmat de o liniste foarte lunga), iar al doilea Blomljud apreciat cam cu patru stele pe progarchives, dar dupa mine de cinci stele si ceva!!!
Acest al doilea album, de fapt un dublu cd este absolut fenomenal, o bijuterie cum putine trupe au reusit sa faca, cam 100 de minute de muzica adevarata, sincera, melodiasa si cu exercitii de maiestrie nu la indemana oricui. Versuri remarcabile, voci foarte bune incepand de la prima piesa cantata a capela, de catre toti cei 5 membri ai formatiei, melodii inspirate in jurul a cateva teme muzicale simple dar originale, orchestratii iscusite si niste solouri de chitara foarte interesante si foarte armonioase mai ales, toate acestea va vor incanta pur si simplu la prima auditie si la urmatoarele. Pe wikipedia este remarcata folosirea unui ritm destul de complex intr-o masura nu la indemana oricaror trupe (Genesis a mai folosit-o undeva) "At the end of "Child Inside the Man", there is another instrumental section in the very unusual 11/8 that may lead to comparisons to Apocalypse In 9/8 by Genesis."
Sper sa va placa acest album pe care il gasiti chiar aici:
http://www.filestube.com/70ed251ea9a1fd4503ea/go.html
CD1: Ka-on I
1. Constant Bloom (1:26)
2. Methuselah's Children (15:42)
3. In the Countryside (5:42)
4. Moonwalk (8:48)
5. Bluebells (10:11)
6. The Ghost of Flowers Past (9:47)

Total Time 51:36

CD2: Ka-on II
1. Yasgur's farm (8:05)
2. Lady of the Woodlands (3:36)
3. A Tale of three and Tree (3:28)
4. Other Half of the Sky (31:42)
5. To Sail Beyond the Sunset (5:18)

Total Time: 50:09
Preferata mea este instrumentala Moonwalk, absolut magnifica si inaltatoare, urmata de Other half of the sky, lunga dar nu degeaba (mai ales sfarsitul "apoteotic"), Bluebells si Lady of woodland (aduce un picut a Machine messiah!!!).
Dar tot albumul este excelent, nu este nimic in plus, nimic in minus, totul se leaga perfect pentru impartasirea unor viziuni artistice de inalta valoare. Un album sincer, tandru, prietenos si care iti deschide perspective noi.

Bluebells - by Moon Safari

Dancing on the feet of a miracle, while winter’s growing cold
Life seems almost cynical in the gardens of green and gold
While the apples of Eden are calling me, I sometimes just can't believe
That man was made a replica of someone else's dream

Away to where the rainbow's just a stony throw away
Where kings and queens assemble just to greet the world and say:
Bear witness to the princess as she lights her precious dome, and bluebells call you home
Home, home, bluebells calling home
Home, home, bluebells calling home

Home to all the broken melodies is a home for all the sunny skies
To rhyme without a reason endlessly, just look at how the butter flies
When the evensong sings through the mezzanine and the birds interrupt the trees
They were talking in the forest hatching up a scheme
When winter comes, they'll up and leave

To find the swirling oceans made of conscience and of clay
The weight of all this nonsense we must carry down the way
Towards the great reunion of the apple and the crow
Come on, it's time to go
Home, home, bluebells calling home (X4)

Tell the trees of sunlight, tell the day of rain
Listen to the flutter rising up again
Better off without a suitcase is the mind
Clutching at a moonbeam, counting out the time
I was only eight when magic touched my ear
Now it seems the only thing I hear
Is the everlasting chorus of an everlasting dream
Locked inside my fantasy

So listen up campers, along with the rain
The promise of sunshine again
With all that is pretty and all that is blue
The bluebell shines for you
Somebody sold my blank endeavor to creatures that walk on the moon, well
In time you'll see the world at the speed of light, as we all set stones in bloom

Home, home, bluebells calling home
Home, home, bluebells calling home

Dancing on the feet of a miracle, while winter's growing cold
Life seems to be almost cynical in the gardens of green and gold (X2)

The light has come to free this song of anything that goes
The featherless magician shakes his head and tells us slow:
The poet down on Main Street can't believe his sunken eyesa
A calling from the skies...

I've never seen a brighter sun than the one the crow incorporated
Into his painted rivers three, as the apple reunites the broken melody
Blue is my direction home, to a world where every ghostly figure
Flutter 'round the cosmic turn as we're dancing on the feet of miracles everywhere

Where do flowers go when all is said and done?
They hope and pray to find a second sun
With golden shores and amber-painted skies
Where poets run and bluebells call home

I've never seen a better day than the one that drove the clouds away
Forever from this holy earth, and the bluebell's simple words just resting in the dirt
And finally it seems to me
This has got to be the place indeed
I'm just sitting in the gardens green, watch the blue above and simply dream my dreamy dream

Where do flowers go when all is said and done?
They hope and pray to find a second sun
With golden shores and amber-painted skies
Where poets run and bluebells call home.

The Other Half of the Sky - by Moon Safari

Part I - Written in the Stars

Hope's as high as the sun today
Once 'round the world, now coming your way
The river runs down the beggars' beach
Claimed the waning moon, now out of reach

The street corner prince with the pockets of gold
Had a story to sell, but it remained untold
One hand on the fence that grows ever so high
There the grass is the same, still I want to the other side

Time will tell if I'm the fool that made the climb and left the pool
People can barely stay afloat, gonna need a bigger boat

Three's the line to change a man, to make the sun light up this land
It is not a single fantasy, from solitude you lead me...
...to a brand new day, and a different game to play...

I've been a bleeding heart on feet, spent my nights racing the streets
The endless rain might take a pause, when there's a reason and a course
On open waters, I set sail, to learn where others failed...


Part II - The Meaning of Success

Did you fill them pages with a meaning to it all, did summer turn to fall?
And your TV dinner got burned by shocking news, it left you with the blues
When the evening comes, you're alone, then it haunts you once again
She's not a lover just a friend
There's a fork in the road, late to work, now you'll never get a raise
Is that a smile upon your face?
Who are you really gonna be?
Do you know that the apple never falls far from the tree?
Hear the whispers in the wind
A change gonna come and it might crown you the king

How come people claim they want to live forever
When at work they can't wait for the day to end?
On Friday night you reset, you are drinking to forget
The worries of the week
Dead men on their feet, they have pulse but they have no heartbeat
Just a shadow on the street
John Doe of the show, don't you know that there's no place left to go
You will always be alone

Will you find your own place in the wheel
Will you do what they want you to, or do just what you feel?
And your wallet holds no thoughts
There goes your freedom you've been bought...

I turn the TV on again, the TV is my only friend
Another Hugh Grant remedy, a happy end to set me free
I turn my back on wonderland, I know that kingdom's made of sand
So here I am a foreign man, without a helping hand

Ghostly figures casting doubt on all I thought I was about
The laughing stops when I appear, the crowd is all in tears
The forecast tells that summer's gone, will I live to see another one?
Or is it just a stupid test, to find the meaning of success?

I'm the rumour of your coffeebreak, I'm your first and last mistake
I'm a poet in a dying world, no one will hear my dying words
I'm the movie that you never rent, I'm the ghost in the machine
I am God when it goes to hell, when it turns out good, I'm not to blame
I'm a drink that's far too strong, perhaps you'd like another one?
A small part of this life, and the meaning that I've found
Life goes up, life goes down


Part III - Child Inside the Man

In the shadow of the bitter artist, the voice of reason speaks
Aversion therapy wouldn't help me to confront the child inside a man
There ain't enough digits for how many times a heart can be broken and fixed

"Hope's as high as the sun today"

Heard a rumour down at the nightclub, couldn't help to spread the word
Like fire through a corridor of paper, in print for the morning meal
Suddenly, the world's a little smaller, and all else is larger than life

"Don't leave me hanging upon the ageless door,
up north the trial goes on forevermore" (2X)

I take the flowers away from my grave and I walk the primrose path
Beyond this aftermath
We were ships that passed in the night, and the lighthouse guided us home
We won't end up all alone
I was tilting at windmills and what you're losing on the swings
You gain on the roundabouts
I discovered that just round the bend lies the meaning of success
Now this heart can finally rest


Part IV - After All

Talking to myself, I no longer speak the truth
I'm not fooling anyone, I never left the pool
I never once did say the words, I never understood the words
Now they're flowing naturally, I see them perfectly
I am first to join the fools' parade
Towards the sunset, lovers' lane,
I'm blind but I am unafraid
I'm colors in the shade
The wind that blows away the weight, broken backs now walking straight
Headlong into future dreams, carry me downstream

The pair whose eyes shall never meet
They're passing strangers in the street
The ties that bind - they're meant to be
It's hope that moves their feet
The pawn in black is standing still, survived the turmoil power of will
The queen that held the heart of men to be revived again
I turned into a butterfly, spread my wings and learned to fly
The puppet master's fading face, eleven sins to erase
I know who I am gonna be, I fit into a different wheel
Thanks to you, I'll be all right
You're the other half of the sky

Hope's as high as the sun today
Once 'round the world, now coming your way

Every day I'm loving you
In every way, I'm loving you
How it grows, the way it shines
Keeping me alive
As infinity forms a line, into the love that I define

Every day I'm loving you
In every way, I'm loving you
How it shines beyond beliefs, brighter than the sun
I am tired of the past, but it feels like this will last...

MOON SAFARI-Lover's End (2010) al 3 lea album
sample piesa "A Kid Called Panic"
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=307458505140
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Cool, abia astept.

Uhm, stiu ca suntem un forumel mititel, totusi nu cred ca avem voie sa postam versuri intregi.