Artist : Rubber Tea

Album : Infusion

Release Date : 05-06-2020

Added : 10-08-2020

'Rubber Tea' is a new progressive rock project initiated three years ago by young and talented German musicians and singers and who are influenced by different currents with first of all the formations of the beginning of the progressive like 'King Crimson' ( you can listen to a cover of 'Moonchild' on you tube recorded during the confinement) but also they flesh out their compositions of jazzy ambient with the addition of brass instruments.

The album opens with the longest composition of the album, 'On Misty Mountains / Downstream' divided into two parts, a first sung in which we discover the soft and delicate vocals of 'Vanessa Gross' in a psychedelic atmosphere which can recall the beginnings of 'Barclay James Harvest' then a second instrumental part which is close to the 'Pink-Floyd' of the 'Meddle' and 'Atom Heart Mother' years. It is with 'In Weeping Wates' that the jazzy intonations brought by the vibraphone meet a progressive unrolling a quiet and peacefull melody, then 'The Traitor' continues in this serene atmosphere that one could qualify as progressive jazz and which reminds me in some places the Englishs of 'Renaissance'. The album continues with 'Plastic Dream' always in the sweetness with beautiful instrumental parts of keyboards, then, with 'Storm Glass', we are again full foot in the psychedelic with electronic effects in the vocals and 'The Droubt' returns to influences from the sixties with always the same references, the album ending with the instrumental 'American Dream' which one last time takes us in a 'Floydian' mood.

In summary, the Germans of 'Rubber Tea' show for a first album and very young members an impressive maturity and 'Infusion' is to advise to an audience loving a soft and quiet progressive which refers to the beginning of this style in the 60s/70s..

Line Up / Musicians

Vanessa Gross (Vocal, Saxophone, Flute, Percussions), Lennart Hinz (Keybords, Vocal), Jonas Roustai (Guitar), David Erzmann (Bass), Henri Pink (Drums), Maik Scheling (Guitar) + Guests : Christopher Olesch (Vibraphone), Alex Petratos (Congas, Güiro), Jakob Rubin (Saxophone), Kotenfreak Lasse (Trumpet)