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CLIFFHANGER |
| Cliffhanger
is : Rinie Huigen on Guitar and Vocals Dick Heijnoer on Keyboards and Piano Gijs Koopman on Bass and Bass Pedals and Keyboard Hans Boonk on Drums The Tracks are : 1. Rainforest (7:16) 2. The Final Frontier (4:57) 3. Mirror Site I (11:35) 4. Mirror Site II (9:51) 5. Mirror Site III (5:23) 6. Sunday Afternoon (4:27) 7. Truce (4:43) 8. The Undiscovered Country (8:51) The opening track is 'Rainforest', which starts with a softly played keyboard section sounding like a Gaelic theme and then the track changes direction with Rinie coming in with some excellent guitar. The music is quite complex at times, with some nice changes in direction, mood and tempo. Rinie's vocals on this track are soft and warming. A nice track!! The next track is 'The Final Frontier', a great track with Rinie's vocals having a soft, warm tone. Dick and Rinie both play some quite intricate guitar and keyboards. There are some nice changes in direction, mood and tempo with some great bass and nice piano. Reminds me a bit of Marillion. Track three is 'Mirror Site 1', which starts with some nice, but fairly soft keyboards followed by the whole band coming in. There's a good solid drum sound, great bass and the vocals remind me a little of Fish and Peter Gabriel giving the track a Genesis/Marillion feel about it. The guitar and keyboards are complex and intricate. This is followed by some spacey sounding keyboards and guitar and some great bass before the whole band returns with more complex guitar and keyboards. Followed by some nice acoustic guitar and vocals and ending with some more spacey sounds. There are some nice changes in direction, mood and tempo within the track. Next is 'Mirror Site II', starts with some spacey keyboard sounds and then goes into some excellent acoustic guitar with a lovely melody. The whole thing then changes direction, more acoustic guitar,but a lot more intricate, Great drums and Rinie's vocals are great. Another change now to electric guitar with lots of intricate sections, complex and constantly changing direction. Finishing with some keyboards. 'Mirror Site III', starts with some great keyboards and guitar. Great bass and drums. The guitar work again is quite intricate. Track six, 'Sunday Afternoon', is a great track, has some superb guitar and superb keyboards with some nice changes in direction, mood and tempo. Just full of emotion!! The next track is 'Truce', which has a superb rhythm running throughout. The vocals are superb. There's a nice melody with some excellent guitar, Great bass and drums. The final track is 'The Undiscovered Country' which is an excellent instrumental starts with some nice keyboards, with some stunning guitar work with lots of emotion. Cliffhanger are a great band and Mirror Site is a great CD!! and even though there's some early Genesis and Marillion influences there, what the hell, Cliffhanger still have enough of there own music style there too. When a band makes a CD as good as this it doesn't matter what influences are there!! Highly Recommended!!! Released by Musea, 68 La Tinchotte, 57645 Retonfey, France Fax : +33 (0) 387366473 Website :http://www.id-net.fr/musea Cliffhanger Website : http://www.tip.nl/users/rinie.huigen
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