Eela Craig 1976 One Niter

Genre: Progressive Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:45:44
Size: 104,62 MB

Review by loserboy

"One Niter" is widely regarded as their best album and stands up IMHO as one tremendous pieces of symphonic progressive rock. This album was actually their second release and followed a 5 year delay after the release of their classic debut album. This album is essentially made up of two side-long conceptual tracks ("Circles" and "One Niter Medley").

The music of EELA CRAIG is very much keyboard centric featuring a wide host of keyboards with lots of mellotron. EELA CRAIG play serene yet majestic and hauntingly beautiful themes with lots of Mellotron, flute, symphonic string synths and killer guitar work. The vocals are also well done and float along with the music in a very similar vein to that of CAMEL. On "One Niter", EELA CRAIG also blend in some slight funk-like themes into the symphonic fog and gives the listener something quite original to listen to.


Tracklist:

01 - Circles - The Mighty 05:38

02 - Circles - The Nude 01:59

03 - Circles - The Curse 05:02

04 - Circles - The Blessed 01:22

05 - Loner's Rhyme 09:21

06 - One Niter Medley - Benedictus 01:53

07 - One Niter Medley - Fuge 00:47

08 - One Niter Medley - V.A.T. 03:15

09 - One Niter Medley - Morning 01:57

10 - One Niter Medley - One Niter 03:25

11 - Venezuela 03:34

12 - Way Down 07:31





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Eela Craig 1978 Missa Universalis

Genre: Progressive Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:42:24
Size: 96,98 MB

Review by Proghead

Now here's something you don't hear too much in the world of prog rock: a Christian prog rock album. But EELA CRAIG did such an album in 1978. "Missa Universalis", their fourth album takes a Roman Catholic Mass to a prog rock context. Luckily they didn't have to water down their prog rock sound to have a religious theme. At this point, they were playing a rather lush style of prog rock heavy on the string synths, not unlike what ELOY was doing at the same time, only more polished, and surprisingly (given EELA CRAIG were Austrians), no ridiculously accented vocals like you do Frank Bornemann. For this concept, the members of the band decided to sing in four languages, Latin, French, German, and English, quite a lot for the band to do, put they pulled it off.

Without a doubt, the opening cut, "Kyrie" is by far the highlight. The droning string synths and a voice that repeats "Kyrie Eleison" over and over really trips me out. "Credo (Part 1)" is a pretty nice ballad while "Credo (Part 2)" tends to be a bit more on the funky side. "Sanctus" borrowed from Anton Bruckner, and at the end goes for a funky jam reminescent of "One Niter". The closing song, "Amen" reminds me a little of VANGELIS circa "Heaven & Hell".



Tracklist:

01 - Kyrie 12:03

02 - Gloria 06:01

03 - Credo 08:05

04 - Sanctus 08:50

05 - Agnus Dei 05:23

06 - Amen 02:02





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Eela Craig 1971 Eela Craig

Genre: Progressive Rock
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:52:11
Size: 119,32 MB

Review by psarros

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Austria is a country known for a bunch of things, like the beautiful cities, the kings and queens,the amazing rivers,the unbelievable nature but surely not for its strong progressive rock scene.From the few bands I'm aware of,EELA CRAIG might the most well known of all.This austrian act showed the progressive world a double face as they started as a clear jazz/psych prog outfit but transformed to a space/symphonic rock band in the years to come...In both occasions the band can't be considered nothing less than talented...

EELA CRAIG made their debut in early 70's with their eponymous album and an evident jazz rock style influenced also by the blues and psychedelia. The opening track ''New born child'' spins off with some atmospheric organ and the dramatic cries of the vocalist and by the middle of the track the guitars take over until the end with some jazzy solos...''Selfmade trip'' (what a name for a track) shows clearly the blues influences of the band, as the track unfolds the flute dominates until the end where the guitars return and in the final minute the sound of the guitars and drums gets distorted...On ''A new way'' the band follows again the previous successful bluesy/flute space/bluesy combination with a style very close to BURNIN' RED IVANHOE...''Indra Elegy'' is the most experimenting and multi-formed track of the album with some influences by KING CRIMSON...It opens with a very atmospheric piano/flute combination, then the organ and heavy guitars take over until the break of blues/jazz strikes again...The track ends exactly how it started, with the beautiful piano/flute interplay...

The CD version contains also 4 bonus tracks which are a very good example how experimental this band was while transforming to a symphonic one during the 5-years period between the first and the second album...''Irminsul'' is a psychedelic instrumental piece of...hmmm...sounds I would say (and not music) which contains electronic effects and percussion exclusively...The experimental/electronic face of the band continues on ''Yggdrasil'' which also contains smooth guitar work and some bass and drum playing...In ''Stories'' the symphonic transformation of EELA CRAIG is completed. You won't believe your ears that this is the same band that played in the original album. Very romantic organ playing, mellow guitar work, smooth vocals, an excellent track in the vein of first period GENESIS. ''Cheese'' is another symphonic piece of music but this time the sound is more intense, very close to YES, with Jon Anderson style in singing and guitar play with Steve Howe influences!

EELA CRAIG were one of the most experimental and daring bands in prog rock. Although I prefer their more symphonic version, I really like their debut very much and I recommended to all fans of jazz/psychedelic/King Crimson-esque progressive rock...



Tracklist:

01 - New Born Child 07:45

02 - Selfmade Trip 10:31

03 - A New Way 07:05

04 - Indra Elegy 11:43

05 - Irminsul (Bonus Track) 02:10

06 - Yggdrasil (Bonus Track) 03:39

07 - Stories (Bonus Track) 04:39

08 - Cheese (Bonus Track) 04:39




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