The Eye Of Time
Acoustic
Denovali (2014)
Marc Euvrie is certainly a unique specimen when it comes to musicianship. When the previous, self-titled, album of The Eye of Time came out, it was just an unbelievable record to handle. The sheer weight of the album, its experimental scope and its extreme outbreaks, definitely left their mark. But today, Euvrie returns with quite different concept in mind, and instead of a head on assault of epic proportions, he strips down into the most basic concepts that are at his disposal. Essentially he creates a classical album, and that is what Acoustic is.But what is the quintessential aspect of The Eye of Time is that, even though the instrumentation is stripped down to the very basics (just piano and cello), you can still see the connection between Acoustic and the self-titled album. Euvrie has not lost his identity as a songwriter and a performer. Sure, the ambiance is less dystopian and Acoustic does allow a few glimpses of hope to come in, but it is still so clear that the songs of Acoustic could have been the foundations for the tracks in the self-titled album.In addition to that, even the concept of the album is unbelievable. Euvrie goes through … Read more
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