![]() The result has been a debut which combines a questing spirit with a dystopian take on the here and now. Initially this led to a collaboration with Psicomagia’s Trevor Mast and Paul Marrone, although later Marrone (while he does play on Born) was replaced by Thomas DiBenedetto (of Sacri Monte, Joy and Monarch) as sparks began to fly in earnest. Conor Riley and Brian Ellis nonetheless found themselves seeking out new life and new civilisations. Nonetheless, this is a band which was thrown into life via the constrictions and temporal shifts of a global pandemic, as well as one which has largely set about chronicling a reality in which the surrounding world appears to be hurrying its own demise.īirth evolved from Astra, whose two previous albums - 2009’s The Weirding and 2012’s The Black Chord - had already reinvented classic sonic textures and mind-melds in lucid and intoxicating style. ![]() Yet far from the trappings of retro chic and fashion-aligned classicism, these five celestial serenades stake their claim in a different headspace to most other exponents of the form.Ĭertainly it’s true that many of the audial shapes manifesting themselves here - the exploratory jazz-rock diversions, Mellotron and Hammond-abetted textures and the rich melancholia of the song-writing - may recall moments from progressive rock’s past, and the listener may be forgiven for losing themselves in a gatefold-sleeved reverie. In Born, their third album, the listener is invited on a magic-eye journey through a Castenadean realm in which colours and sounds warp into kaleidoscopic dimensions. ![]() This is the current realm of Birth, San Diego’s most transcendental new band and purveyors of a form of vibrant and electrifying progressive rock that moves beyond time and space itself. A full 204 years later, the quest remains: How best to elucidate our daily lives with some form of inspiration that moves the spirit beyond its earthly shackles? T HE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.” So wrote Mary Shelley in Frankenstein, arguably the first science fiction tale. ![]()
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