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Aether, Solis, Nexus, Ankh
Rio Art Rock Festival, 10 December 1999
Teatro da Galeria, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
By Lanzarini
The 1st day f Rio Art Rock Festival happened on a rainy day
in Rio de Janeiro. A good audience appeared at Teatro da
Galeria even all the problems.
Aether opened with a great surprise: Glauco Fernandes
(violin) that will only play in two musics (Alterbourgh
Suite and Whales) participated on all the gig! A really
pleasent surprise! The show was based on the CD Visions,
released this year. New Bright Day, Alterbough Suite and
Whales was the highest moments of Aether. Camel was the
strongest influence (mainly the electric guitar of Vinicius
Brazil). Even some problems with the sound equipment on the
beggining of the shows injured the band. Great opening!
1st time on stage, Solis, the most recent release of Rock
Symphony, showed a lot of energy, mainly the guitarrist
(both electric and acoustic) Marcos Pinho (a virtuoso). All
the gig was based on the first cd called Gemini (to be
reviewed soon here at RPB) and all explained on the
exclusive interview). The vocals (maybe for some servosity
of the debut) at some moments was quite different from the
sound of the band. Nice acoustic sets (L'Essence) e eminence
for Sete Luas de Andrion and for the suite Solis Invicts
Mitra. The bass player Jonatas Luiz come to stay forever!
The 1 st international band of RARF 99 was Nexus. Based on
the concept CD Detrás Del Umbral and on some unreleased
tracks, the argentine quintet has an exemplary control of
the intruments and played a hard neo symph prog that was on
our memories since now! Note for the nice vocal of Mariela
Gonzalez (Condenados, Signos en el Cielo and on the
unreleased track), that fits nicely on the band. All the
musicians are quite good and certainly will perform well on
Baja Prog 2000 (Mexico) and on Near Fest 2000 (USA). The
best gig of the night, but very brief. Besides Tempus Fugit,
representing very well the prog rock of South America at
this moment.
Closing the first day, the polish band Ankh mixed
progressive, metal and Porcupine Tree pompously. The
musicians are excelent also e did an energic and fited
sound. The quartet has a huge presence on the stage! At the
moment, I couldn't find words that could decribe the Ankh
show. All time the audience screamed: "Very good!",
"Marvelous!" They suported all the responsability of close
the first day and play after Nexus.
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