At last, after a long wait, you can delight yourself with the first DVD of INDRA’s live concert. It contains two discs: the video recording of the concert from the Turda Salt Mine in 2007 and the audio version on a separate CD.
'Music is not music when, by the force of its highly complex vibrations, it does not awaken in listeners the dormant depths of their souls and hearts. Turbulent minds, chaotic bodies and the psychoses that emerge in some people, in response to destructive musical ...
Presented in Rodvig, Denmark on July 28th, 2008, THE PYRAMID CONCERT is a whole musical event during which Indra invited his fans in a surrealist decoration; a wooden pyramid floating on the Baltic Sea. A show high in color where the Romanian synthesist displays all his knowledge with an inspired and inspiring, where hybrid rhythms mix to suave musical poetry which oscillates between cosmic and angelic breaths.
It’s on a background sound of metallic mist where marginal gongs resound among singings of big surrealist locusts that starts The Ruler. Indra’s musicality deploys as him only knows how to settle it with jerky tablas percussions and cymbals to felted breaths which accompany a sequence to wriggling pulsations and skin-tight curves, inspiring a soft rhythmic wavy of a fine line of bass. A keyboard with nervous chords flies over this soft hypnotic trance of which tinkled percussions perfume of a starry tone, shaping this movement of continual jolts and striking stereo effects which ally frenetic rhythm to a more serene passage under the veils of a soft mellotron as mesmerizing as captivating.
Like the alarms of a liner announcing its departure, King Warrior advances heavily before falling into frenzy percussions under a sonorous sky multicolored of synthesized solos which roar under slow echotic pulsations. An astonishing mellotron lesson follows which spits its unbridled orchestrations beneath percussions which slam in a symmetric disorder. A fiery musical piece, which knows its serene passage, of which the stunning grows at each orchestral surge of a wild mellotron which shears its arrangements with dexterity that Indra succeeds to combine to catchy harmonies. By far the most accessible track on THE PYRAMID CONCERTand which ends into soft ethereal hazes, recalling the oceanic world of Jarre in Magnetic Fields.
A finale which throws into the somber reverberations of Reclusion opening, one of the darkest and most powerful title I heard in EM. A dark intro where apocalyptic bells resound in an abyssal heaviness filled of lugubrious voices, sinister and angelic which recite a mysterious ode in spiritual language. Behind this vocal pattern draw round a heavy hopping bass à la Pink Floyd on One of These Days and a synth which tears this misty opaqueness of long plaintive solos. A drum hammers this spasmodic rhythmic by inserting a bass pulsation which follows the heart palpitations of a mephistophelic choir under streak of a synth to caustic solos. As loud as stunning, it’s a magnificent mixture of dark and heavy on angelic discord. Listen to it in high volume to seize its entire dimension, but paint can easily be ripped out of your walls.
Synthesized hooting pierce the astral cloudiness of Tiamat Response, a shorter version of Tiamat which we find on BHUVANESHVARI album and which Indra preserves the frenzies approach of the sequenced pulsations which are shaping to melodious snippets on a synthesized background at once astral and biting.
Conceived beneath spontaneous inspiration, The Dreamer is in the purest poetic tradition of Indra. A soft wadding intro where a mellotron floats among heterogeneous tones, preparing the approach of a hatched rhythm where chords from a hesitating keyboards cross a soft pace eaten away by colorful tones and embellished by pleasant ethereal vocalizes.
And the story repeats; album after album, Indra doesn’t stop amazing and seducing with its music to rhythms stuffed of strange Indian aromas and with mesmerizing spiritual embraces. THE PYRAMID CONCERT does not really make an exception of what the Romanian synthesist offers us with its Trantic Edition series. It is a very beautiful album where Indra spirituality transcends the musical borders with an audacious approach where various melodies, so much trances than meditative, always eventually end where we expect it least.
Sylvain Lupari
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Presented in Rodvig, Denmark on July 28th, 2008, THE PYRAMID CONCERT is a whole musical event during which Indra invited his fans in a surrealist decoration; a wooden pyramid floating on the Baltic Sea. A show high in color where the Romanian synthesist displays all his knowledge with an inspired and inspiring, where hybrid rhythms mix to suave musical poetry which oscillates between cosmic and angelic breaths.
It’s on a background sound of metallic mist where marginal gongs resound among singings of big surrealist locusts that starts The Ruler. Indra’s musicality deploys as him only knows how to settle it with jerky tablas percussions and cymbals to felted breaths which accompany a sequence to wriggling pulsations and skin-tight curves, inspiring a soft rhythmic wavy of a fine line of bass. A keyboard with nervous chords flies over this soft hypnotic trance of which tinkled percussions perfume of a starry tone, shaping this movement of continual jolts and striking stereo effects which ally frenetic rhythm to a more serene passage under the veils of a soft mellotron as mesmerizing as captivating.
Like the alarms of a liner announcing its departure, King Warrior advances heavily before falling into frenzy percussions under a sonorous sky multicolored of synthesized solos which roar under slow echotic pulsations. An astonishing mellotron lesson follows which spits its unbridled orchestrations beneath percussions which slam in a symmetric disorder. A fiery musical piece, which knows its serene passage, of which the stunning grows at each orchestral surge of a wild mellotron which shears its arrangements with dexterity that Indra succeeds to combine to catchy harmonies. By far the most accessible track on THE PYRAMID CONCERT and which ends into soft ethereal hazes, recalling the oceanic world of Jarre in Magnetic Fields.
A finale which throws into the somber reverberations of Reclusion opening, one of the darkest and most powerful title I heard in EM.A dark intro where apocalyptic bells resound in an abyssal heaviness filled of lugubrious voices, sinister and angelic which recite a mysterious ode in spiritual language. Behind this vocal pattern draw round a heavy hopping bassà laPink Floyd on One of These Days and a synth which tears this misty opaqueness of long plaintive solos. A drum hammers this spasmodic rhythmic by inserting a bass pulsation which follows the heart palpitations of a mephistophelic choir under streak of a synth to caustic solos. As loud as stunning, it’s a magnificent mixture of dark and heavy on angelic discord. Listen to it in high volume to seize its entire dimension, but paint can easily be ripped out of your walls.
Synthesized hooting pierce the astral cloudiness of Tiamat Response, a shorter version of Tiamat which we find on BHUVANESHVARI album and which Indra preserves the frenzies approach of the sequenced pulsations which are shaping to melodious snippets on a synthesized background at once astral and biting.
Conceived beneath spontaneous inspiration, The Dreamer is in the purest poetic tradition of Indra. A soft wadding intro where a mellotron floats among heterogeneous tones, preparing the approach of a hatched rhythm where chords from a hesitating keyboards cross a soft pace eaten away by colorful tones and embellished by pleasant ethereal vocalizes.
And the story repeats; album after album, Indra doesn’t stop amazing and seducing with its music to rhythms stuffed of strange Indian aromas and with mesmerizing spiritual embraces.
THE PYRAMID CONCERT does not really make an exception of what the Romanian synthesist offers us with its Trantic Edition series. It is a very beautiful album where Indra spirituality transcends the musical borders with an audacious approach where various melodies, so much trances than meditative, always eventually end where we expect it least.
