LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

1 - Intro (1'28)2 - Reallusion (4'16)3 - Parade (2'21)4 - Lucifer's Child (5'45)5 - Network Broken (2'57)6 - Omnious Footsteps II (6'43)7 - Ran (3'48)8 - Asels (I. Part One) (2'08)9 - Asels (II. Part Two) (4'24)10 - Asels (III. Part Three) (0'58)11 - Asels (IV. Part Four) (4'54)12 - Asels (V. Part Five) (3'46)13 - Move Up (4'50)14 - Time And Space (2'25)15 - Fu-Ga (5'24)

SHOW-YEN is a Japanese band led by guitarist-composer Yasuhiro NISHIO, that has existed as a trio since 1998. Its other members are bassist Hiroaki FUJII and drummer Masanobu TONOMURA. Their eponymous concept album (2003) is actually built on a new idea: "Free-concept". The listener must invent his own story while listening to the music ! The fifteen tracks are quite dense and concise, and represent a very wide range of musical tendencies, that can evoke KING CRIMSON or RUSH in the Seventies among other influences (Oriental for example). Those first class musicians like both melodies and power: riffs and solos are predominant here ! But the rhythm section is also perfectly precise and the music quite adventurous, with surprising breaks and quiet acoustic moments. To be discovered !