(Experimental Jazz, Progressive Rock, Post-Rock) And There Stand Empires - Ceremonial Syndrome (2018), FLAC, WEB (tracks), lossless

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foobar2000 2.0 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2024-11-21 16:55:16
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Analyzed: And There Stand Empires / Ceremonial Syndrome
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR9       -0.10 dB   -12.17 dB      5:01 01-Garden of the Fugitives
DR8       -0.10 dB    -9.42 dB      5:48 02-Landscape with an Axe
DR9        0.00 dB   -10.72 dB      8:29 03-Busy Signal
DR9       -0.10 dB   -10.43 dB      5:57 04-Project X Inc.
DR9       -0.10 dB   -11.82 dB      5:02 05-Anchored Articulation
DR9       -0.10 dB   -10.83 dB      4:50 06-Two Planets at Once
DR10      -0.10 dB   -11.84 dB      8:06 07-Albatross by Lamplight
DR10      -0.10 dB   -13.46 dB      1:25 08-Clerical Errors Resulting in a Scheme
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Number of tracks:  8
Official DR value: DR9
Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           848 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Tulsa-based And There Stand Empires really showcases a widely-diversified musical palate, with beautifully dense and lushly descriptive instrumentals that run the gamut of progressive introspective emotion. It’s pretty and melancholic at the same time, with resounding guitar work and pounding drums that contradict the cold finality in the keyboards, along with crescendos and diminuendos that strategically battle in mock, call-response warfare. This band is very good at this sort of thing, a song being a brilliant story rather than just a minor sketch that fits within a bigger storyline. And in it’s ambiguous emotion, it is at times somewhat cathartic. What could be the soundtrack to one’s rainy day tragedy may be the memoirs of another person’s joyous lifetime. When you can pull that off, that’s magic. Recommended if you like: Russian Circles, Steve Reich, His Hero Is Gone and other ambitious post prog material

Julia Hangs – piano
James Plumlee – bass, vibraphone, piano, keyboards, guitar, percussion
Daniel Sutliff – bass, piano, keyboards, guitar, vibraphone
Hank Hanewinkel III – drums
Engineered by James Plumlee at Plum-E Studios in Tulsa, OK.