Concert DVD: ISILDURS BANE Mind Vol. 5

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Progger58

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Isildurs Bane are a Swedish band with quite a prolific career, started in the early 80’s. Their music is pretty hard to describe, but let’s say that it’s mostly instrumental/experimental progressive rock with some hints of King Crimson, Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa (just to name some few influences), and with a classical flavour to it, thanks to the use of violins, cello and other chamber music instrumentation. At their website, the band describes their own sound in these words: "Over the years we've gathered a lot of impressions from all around, though mainly from fusion, jazz, classical and theater music. Our musical development has also to do with new members coming from different backgrounds, such as pure rock, funk, classical and jazz." From their many albums released to date, my personal favorites are The Voyage: A Trip to Elsewhere, Mind Vol. 1, Mind Vol. 2 and Mind Vol. 4.

This concert DVD was recorded last year, in Sweden, featuring songs from their latest release, Mind Vol. 4, together with some few others from their highly acclaimed The Voyage: A Trip to Elsewhere. The tracklist is as follows:

1. Under the wind
2. Heal (intro)
3. Good
4. Open
5. Dark II
6. Ends
7. Cage
8. Eyes
9. Idea
10. Heal
11. People are afraid
12. The Voyage: The adventure of the whirling delirium
13. The Voyage: A telescope and a hot air balloon
14. Loss
15. Rage
16. The Voyage: Wild as a toad
17. The voyage: Magnificent giant battles
18. Without grace

The DVD also features, in the extras, these three awesome bonus video tracks from their show at 2004’s Gouveia Art Rock Festival in Portugal:

- The Asylum
- Idea
- Celestial Vessel

Also included in the extras these four audio tracks, two of them recorded exclusively for the DVD:

- Without Grace
- People Are Afraid
- Under the Wind
- Thoughts Stand Still

The first thing you will notice is the high audio & video quality of this DVD. It’s Linear PCM stereo only, but it’s far better than many 5.1 encoded DVD’s I know.

And as for the music… ah, the music!!! That’s the awesome part of the show. Both the main act and the extra video tracks from the show in Portugal are absolutely stunning. These guys can play, and they can play awesomely. The show is just brilliant from start to end, but I have to say I was totally amazed when they played "The Voyage" entirely (Parts I, II, III & IV), these are undoubtedly the highlights on this wonderful concert DVD.

The audio part of this DVD is code-free (region 0), but the video part is PAL european format, so you will need a PAL compatible TV set otherwise you will see the show in black-and-white.

Demetrio.
 
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