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The history of this Polish band started mid 1995 when
four musicians (Roman Kusy on bass, Marek Misiak on guitar,
Jerzy Misiak on drums and Cezary Szczerbak on keyboards)
founded a band with vocalists they occasionally met. Early
1996 12-string guitarist Tomasz Rychlicki and the first
true vocalist Dominika Owsik joined Anamor, a few years
later the band gave its first concert. And late 1996 Anamor
made their first recordings, resulting in a demo with five
tracks. Gradually Anamor got a small cult-following and
the music was played on local radio stations. In 1999 Anamor
recorded a second demo that contained 7 songs and in the
same year Anamor shared the stage with Abraxas, Quidam and
Camel bass player Colin Bass. Soon after keyboardplayer
Cezary Szczerbak was replaced by Marcin Ozimek. In the new
line-up the band started to work on their debut album late
2001, two years later it was released as an own production
entitled Imaginacje (October 2003).
- Listening to Anamor their pleasant and melodic music
is stepping into the realm of the neo-prog. The nine tracks
(between 2 and 10 minutes, total time around an hour) alternate
between mellow with soaring keyboards, slow rhythms with
dreamy vocals and mid-tempo’s with piano and synthesizer
flights, all topped with excellent work on guitar (from
sensitive to heavy) and warm and powerful female Polish
vocals. My favourites are the longer and varied compositions
Pejzaż (strong musical ideas and wonderful work on
acoustic- and electric guitars and bombastic keyboards)
and W Próżni: lots of shifting moods, a powerful flute
solo (by Quidam member Jacek Zasada) and a compelling final
part delivering a howling guitar solo, supported by sumptuous
keyboard layers, this is Neo Prog Heaven! -
If you like neo-prog in the vein of Pendragon or other
Polish progrock bands like Quidam and Collage, check out
this album!
www.progwalhalla.com
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