Search - Triumvirat :: Old Loves Die Hard

Good piece of music

Tnahpellee | Australia | 12/04/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This album is progressive rock music. However, there is some mainstream catchiness to it nonetheless. The vocal numbers tend to either uptempo numbers, like The history of mystery, or plaintive piano ballads, like 'Cold old worried lady', which is suicidal.



The instrumental parts alternate between softer, piano driven parts to uptempo, energetic bits full of synthesiser imagery and sonic audio soundscapes. Despite this being a German Band, the lyrics are in English, as sung by Barry Palmer. The music is written by the band's keyboardist, Fritz. His piano playing has a classical orientation. The instrumental parts to 'History of mystery' has an almost disco beat to it, but the vocal parts, especially with the driven delivery, have a rock feeling to them. There is quite a bit of improvised soloing on the record. My favourite track is 'a day in the live', it begins as spaced-out synth driven psychedelia, then there's some classical piano that's very beautiful and then finale is a bit rocking. The song is actually divided into three part. The music is all very good and some of it is quite original, and you can understand most of the lyrics that are sung, so I'd rate it somewhere around 4/5."