Artist : tRKproject (The Ryszard Kramarski Project )

Album : Mr Scrooge

Release Date : 17-04-2019

Added : 19-06-2019

The Polish 'Ryszard Kramarski' is not a stranger to progressive rock fans because he is the founder of 'Millenium' whose last 2 releases date from 2017 with the album '44 Minutes ' (see my review here) and 2018 for the EP 'MMXVIII' (see here) but also has a solo project 'The Ryszard Kramarski Project' and it's in this context that 'Mr Scrooge' comes out, 2 other albums have already been released in 2017 'Music Inspired By The Little Prince' (see my review here) and 2018 'Sounds from the Past' (see here). In this project also appears 'Grzegorz Fieber', the drummer of 'Loonypark' (see their latest album released recently here). This last opus is inspired by the Christmas tale 'A Christmas Carol' by 'Charles Dickens' and the different compositions go through the story of Ebenezer Scrooge'. On the musical level, we find the style that we knew on the other albums, namely, a melancholic and melodic progressive rock with references of groups like of course 'Millenium' or 'Loonypark' but also 'Mostly Autumn' (see here) or 'Karnataka' (see here) or 'Fleesh' that I recently discovered (see here). 'Karolina Leszko' continues to enchant us with her soft and subtle voice that goes perfectly with the harmonious compositions as for example in 'My Old Friend' where her vocals on the last part are a real pleasure (if you like her voice, she just released a piano voice album in Polish here) and the guitar solos of 'Marcin Kruczek' are still masterful in a very 'Gilmourian' style, 'Ryszard Kramarski' allowing it to express himself in instrumental parts worthy of the name as in the first part of 'First Spirit'. I could quote all titles but it would be a long review because there is no title below another, then, enough talk, the best is to press the play button and get carried away by these beautiful melodies. In short, this last album filled with emotion, melancholy and refinement of the solo project of 'Ryszard Kramarski' is still a total success and 'Mr Scrooge' is to be recommended to all those who privilege in progressive rock the side soft and melodic...

Line Up / Musicians

Ryszard Kramarski (Keybords, Guitar), Marcin Kruczek (Guitar), Grzegorz Fieber (BAtteire, Percussions), Karolina Leszko (Vocal), Krzysztof Wyrwa (Bass)