Artist : Deafening Opera

Album : Driftwood

Release Date : 17-08-2021

Added : 27-09-2021

'Deafining Opera' is a German progressive rock band that has released 3 albums of which the last 'Blueprint' from 2013 and 'Let Silence Fall' from 2018 are available on spotify and 2021 sees the release of a new album, quite short, that puts forward an acoustic progressive that we didn't know from them, three tracks, '25.000 Miles', 'As Night And Day Collide' and 'Man And Machine' being taken from their last two releases. So we embark on a relaxing progressive journey that mixes different influences ranging from pop, jazz through folk with beautiful vocal harmonies.
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After the short instrumental introduction 'Murghab Morning', it is without transition that '25,000 Miles' takes over and after the departure of 'Gerald Marie', it is the guitarist 'Moritz Kunkel' who takes over the piano with jazzy sounds much more marked than in the initial version. With 'Snowman's Meadow', this jazzy side is still present in a swaying rhythm in which the voice of 'Arian Daleore' is particularly expressive and 'Outlaw Feline' brings this time folk influences with a catchy melody and beautiful rhythmic breaks which makes it a varied composition. The beautiful ballad break 'As Night And Day Collide' offers a nice piano/voice duet joined by a muffled bass/drum rhythm section then, 'Farewell Kiss' is a beautiful acoustic ballad in which the vocal duet 'Alexandra Stovall'/'Adrian Daleore' charms us in an atmosphere full of sensibility, sensibility that we find again at the beginning of the following track, 'Man And Machine' and which takes off halfway through for a more energetic and catchy finale. And it is with a new ballad, 'Little Stone' that the album ends in this soft and relaxing acoustic atmosphere.

In summary, the Germans of 'Deafining Opera' offers us a beautiful acoustic incursion showing a face full of sweetness that should please an audience adept of a relaxing progressive that can be enjoyed quietly headphones on the ears...

Line Up / Musicians

Moritz Kunkel (Guitar, Piano, Choirs), Thomas Moser (Guitar), Christian Eckstein (Bass, Choirs), Adrian Daleore (Vocal), Konrad Gonschorek (Drums) + Guests : Alexandra Stovall (Vocal), Tilman Eispert (Keybords)