Title: Solaris - Progressive Rock From Hungary
Product review: Solaris are a progressive rock band from Hungary that started out back in the early 80's. I picked up this album about 10 years ago when the re-united band were appearing at the North East Art Rock Festival in Pennsylvania. I have not listened to this disc in a long time, but I was pleasently surprised by reacquainting myself with it. This is a very very good band and a fine album. The disc is a double containing re-worked early tracks and tracks that were new at the time. The bands music falls in the symphonic progressive rock camp, but there is very little that is cliché about them. They incorporate many different elements into their music with plenty of twists and turns to keep things interesting. Everything is instrumental save for one track sung in Hungarian. In some ways they remind me of fellow countrymen After Crying or Sweden's Isldurs Bane. If you like either of those bands you will probably dig this.
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