Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes (1979)Space Rock, Prog Rock
This album really took me by surprise. I wasn't expecting much from an album in 1979, a really bad time for prog rock, but ELOY seemed to have forgotten about the changes in trends in the music scene, and proceeded to give us another great album. "Astral Entrance" sounds so much like a missing part of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" that you might think it was a "Wish You Were Here" outtake, but that's all out the window the minute you hear "Master of Sensation", and Frank Bornemann's accented vocals. "The Apocalypse" is definately the album's high point, which is a suite, it's largely an instrumental piece loaded with great Moog and string synths. "De Labore Solis" is another one of those ridiculously string synth heavy pieces that's not unlike Ocean's "Incarnation of Logos".
I could hardly believe anyone made prog rock this great in 1979. It's too bad this was ELOY's final album with Jürgen Rosenthal and Detlev Schmidtchen, because I thought ELOY made their best and most interesting albums with them.Review by Proghead
Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Astral Entrance (0:00)
2. Master of Sensation (3:06)
3. The Apocalypse (9:07) :
- a) Silent Cries Divide the Night
- b) The Vision Burning
- c) Force Majeure
4. Pilot to Paradise (24:02)
5. De Labore Solis (31:06)
6. Mighty Echoes (36:15)
Total Time 43:26
Bonus tracks on 2005 EMI remaster:
7. Child Migration (43:30)
8. Let the Sun Rise in My Brain (47:35)
Line-up / Musicians
- Frank Bornemann / acoustic, effect & electric guitars, lead & backing vocals, co-producer
- Detlev Schmidtchen / grand pianos, Fender Rhodes, Hammond M3, Minimoog & ARP synths, Solina & Hohner String ensembles, RMI keyboard computer, backing vocals
- Klaus-Peter Matziol / Alembic bass, Moog Taurus pedals, backing vocals
- Jürgen Rosenthal / drums & percussion, flute
With:
- Brigitte Witt / vocals (3b)
- Wolfgang Maus / vocal arrangements (3b)
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