Night

No really, it’s beyond that. A blend of multiple styles and approaches to music mixed into one continuous platform transcending the listeners consciousness from one place to another. Towards the end of ‘Massive Illusion’ a flawless Persian piece is fitted in, which blew me away

A perfect album in almost every sense. The break in "Upside Down" is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard...just beautiful. It's the soundtrack of my life after a very painful, unexpected breakup.

This is very good prog rock and an excellent starter album for new prog rock explorers. Thanks KScope! Highly recommended.

Excellent

Excellent album

Satisfied with product quality and delivery

This band was new to me. I found them recently via other progressive bands websites and progressive music suppliers, namely The Burning Shed. They have Porcupine Tree and other Steven Wilson projects, Gazpacho, Marillion etc. I love the music and this album moves from one song to another smoothly. The flow is what this disc is all about. Great prog.

The Night should appeal to many lovers of highly structured beautiful rock music of the Radiohead / Porcupine Tree softer territory. If you have not listened to the music of Gazpacho yet - you might as well start here. I am sure not everyone will agree with me but it seems to me that Firebird (2005) was the first album of their developed Gazpacho style. Both earlier Bravo (2003) and When Earth Let's Go (2004) with previous drummer and bass player were their battlefield of chaos, trial, and error, ending in changes and in development of a very characteristic uniform energy. It seems that major changes took place within the heart of Gazpacho, their brilliant vocalist Jan Henrik Ohme. His vocal became powerful and unique and lyrics of Gazpacho became quite poetic and to me in Night they are the most beautiful and cohesive.To me the difference between Firebird and Night has something of a day and night in it. Night is dreamier, its beauty placed further away from the clear and embracing the subconscious levels. It is a much stronger album overall and perhaps their strongest to date (I have not listened to Missa Atropos yet). There are many differences between 2008's Night and following it 2009's Tick Tock. I feel like Tick Tock contains more hauntingly beautiful passages of dramatic vocal lines perhaps, but the overall atmosphere of Night is more cohesive and to me more enjoyable. It is a conceptual album in which the typical Gazpacho dream is perhaps better defined. This is their most even album as well, in my eyes. If you are looking for best songs here, that will not be an easy choice and most likely the list would look different for most of us. Personally I like Upside Down and Chequered Light Buildings more than the rest but they are simply all great with perhaps the beginning Dream Of Stone being for me personally the weakest one.You should keep in mind that this music because it consists of such complex layering will keep on growing on you with repetitive listening. It would be ideal to be locked in a room with this album on for a day and simply to listen to it until you start breathing it in and out. I have been obsessed by highly structured rock music for the last 35 years, looking for it within the thousands of albums and because of that experience I usually get to know such music fairly quickly. I have to say that when I listened to Upside Down for the first time and a couple more times after that, I liked it already but even I felt like Jan Henrik's extremely creative but in a way odd way of singing that song was so over the top that it took me about seven times before I truly started loving this song. It does not come to the height of Tick Tock part 3 in terms of beauty but it exceeds it in term of creativity. Upside Down is one of the most creative vocal lines I know and other songs of Night carry almost as much power in them. And all that power is within your reach.