(Symphonic Prog) Mangrove - Massive Hollowness - 2001, FLAC (image+.cue) lossless

This Dutch progrock band is rooted in ’95 when the two schoolboy friends Roland van der Horst (guitar and vocals) and Joost Hagemeijer (drums and keyboards) teamed up and started to write their own compositions. In ’98 they released the album "Cold World" as a project titled Brainstorm. Two years later singer Eric Holdtman joined Roland and Joost but unfortunately end 2001 he left, due to personal circumstances. Meanwhile the new band MANGROVE had released their first demo-CD entitled "Massive Hollowness" (2001) with bass guitarplayer Pieter Drost (he had completed the band earlier that year), the keyboard parts were played by Joost Hagemeijer and Hans van der Linden. Soon after the recording sessions Chris Jonker joined MANGROVE as the new keyboardist. In this line-up MANGROVE released the album "Touch Wood" as an own production in 2004.
The CD "Touch Wood" is a fine example of 24-carat symphonic rock. The nine warm and melodic compositions sound laidback but also contain sumptuous eruptions and fiery accellarations. The music is mid-GENESIS and IQ inspired with soaring keyboards, twanging guitars and decent vocals (often a bit similar to Peter GABRIEL). The rhythm section is solid and the keyboards sound pleasant with some beautiful Mellotron samples. The final song "City of Darkness" (splendid choir-Mellotron and howling guitar) comes mighty close to the best GENESIS, it could have been ‘lost material’ from "Seconds Out"! A nice try by ‘symphomaniacs’ who want to make symphonic rock themselves.

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 24. October 2010, 0:47

Mangrove / Massive Hollowness

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2 | 3:56.67 | 4:49.62 | 17767 | 39503
3 | 8:46.54 | 3:09.14 | 39504 | 53692
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