![]() Guitar and keys gladly take a step back to offer him the well deserved attention. The songs leave a lot of space for the wonderful flute solos by Jacek Zasada. This one is almost radio-friendly and leaves you with a positive and fulfilled feeling after listening to the full album. Quite a welcome diversion after the emotional tracks that precede it. This song is an instant classic.Įven though the last song deals with the harshness of music critics, the song itself is a wonderfully up-tempo and light-hearted tune. But let's not forget the wonderful piano work by Zbyszek in the first half of the song and how Bartek recites part of the lyrics as a poem. The same goes for the long end section of We Are Together Alone, which has the same early Porcupine Tree-style as the instrumentals on that album, including tasteful percussion and psychedelic guitar and synths. The instrumental middle sections brings back memories of the Time Beneath the Sky album. ![]() Time to let out some frustration and anger in the relatively heavy One Day We Find, which deals with the theme of discrimination and racism. Before long the song changes to a typical Quidam song with a prominent melody role for the flute, while the song ends in a battle between guitar and a nice dissonant sax solo. ![]() After the more powerful two tracks the emotional intro to We Lost is a welcome change. It also contains a jam-like breakdown with nice percussion and shuffles by drummer Maciek. Of Illusions continues the rock mode of the album. The track itself is one of the more 'rocky' and up-tempo songs on the album, including a jazzy piano interlude. They Are There To Remind Us has the secondary title 'Queen Of Moulin Rouge', laying a lyrical bridge to SurRevival. Of Emotions, which starts very tranquil but builds towards a middle section with great 'power chords' (as some would call them) and no less than two different guitar solos before quieting down again. Take for instance the album's longest song, Depicting Colours Other great ingredients are wah-wah guitar and a zither played by Emila's husband.Īs on the previous album, songs rarely linger in the same style, rhythm or intensity for long. First time I heard this duet section between her and Bartek I looked out of the window and a rainbow had appeared in the sky after a short shower (honest!), as if to provide the video that should come with the music. Talking about Emila, she makes a wonderful appearance as backing vocalist in Kinds Of Solitude At Night. You're blown away, and we're just three minutes into the album ! Take for instance the short album opener Different: over the course of just three minutes we are treated to a lovely piano-vocal ballad, an enormously beautiful xaphoon (sort of a bamboo flute) solo by Piotr Rogoz (the husband of former lead singer Emila) and a heart wrenching guitar solo. Every minute on this album is pure quality. Gone are the songs that sometimes appeared on the earlier albums and seemed strangely out of place. The album sounds even more consistent than SuRevival, which seems to indicate that the band is gluing better than ever. This is what music is supposed to be about. This is music that grabs you and brings up emotions hidden deep inside. These feelings are captured with a diversity of musical styles, with influences of jazz (check out some of the bass lines and drum patterns!) and blues rock and also the early Porcupine Tree style that sneaked into the music two albums ago. Again we get an album that is at times highly emotional while at other times it oozes frustration and anger. ![]() There is however even more emphasis on the things that made that album such a treat. There's good news for those who liked SuRevival: this new album continues in the same direction. With Alone Together our Polish friends have another winner an album that will definitely end up in my personal Top 3 of 2007. The rhythm section of the band had also changed, but the presence of the band's melodic core of guitar, keyboards and flutes guaranteed that the characteristic Quidam sound remained, although it started to lean towards a more moody approach something that had already been present on the Time Beneath The Sky album. Quite a task, but Bartek's wonderfully warm delivery and his superior skills with the English language resulted in the more than positive outcome. This was also the debut of Bartek, the new singer who had replaced the lovely voice of Emila. Two years ago Quidam proved that they had survived and revived with their wonderful album SurRevival. But Strong Together (4:25) Ed Sander's Review A.C.T.Tracklist: Different (3:16), Kinds Of Solitude At Night (6:00), Depicting Colours Of Emotions (10:18), They Are There To Remind Us (7:49), Of Illusions (8:04), We Lost (8:26), One Day We Find (6:46), We Are Alone Together (8:20), P.S.
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