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Review:
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If you want to know what the introitus is, then ask
your gynaecologist, he can look up it, sorry, I mean look
it up. This album has been a labour of love for Mats and
Anna Bender and their friends for ten years. We open up
with the Camel Moonmadness like instrumental ‘Genesis’,
full of mellow flute, tasty guitar, fiddling fiddles, and
dramatic keys. The accordion laced ‘Child’ sounds like it
came off Numbers by Cat Stevens (one of my all time favourite
albums), with a delicious Moog solo, while the spooky ‘Ghost’
starts out with a laid back Karnataka vibe, but has added
oomph as it builds.***
We then come onto the 26 minute, 5 passage centrepiece
and title track ‘Fantasy’, with Rick Wakeman, Alan Parsons,
Jeff Wayne, Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, ELP and goodness
knows what else thrown into the Bender’s blender, including
gorgeous sax and guitar solos, plaintive cello, Greg Lake’ish
guitar arpeggios, a bagpipe jig à la Ommadawn, tubular bells
à la you know what, and a lighter waving sing-along, even
a person with attention deficiency can’t get bored, absolutely
wonderful stuff.***
Next up is the Horslips meets Vangelis instrumental
‘Crossroads’ that ends up getting all funky, then the lovely
Celtic ballad ‘Here and Now’ with fiddle and pipes, and
finally the rocked up Seekers like tune ‘Magical Moment’
which also turns rather groovy.***
10 years of music ram jammed into over 70 minutes of
grooves, it’s not fashionable, not trendy, not flash, not
fancy, just damn good melodic prog for all you fans of Mostly
Autumn, Karnataka, Pink Floyd, Camel, Alan Parsons, etc
etc. Tunnel your way to their Myspace site
http://www.myspace.com/introitus
and find womb room for this in your collection.
9 out of 10.***
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