(Neo Progressive) Negua - A Way Out (2006), FLAC (image+.cue+artwork), lossless

- NEGUA is the name of a young Spanish band, led by UNOMA's guitar player Fidel Vazquez. In the year 2002, he recruited David SAEZ (drums and percussions) and David Conillera (keyboards and vocals), in order to form the heavy-metal band ONIREA. Twelve months later, the musicians decided to start a new project, now focused on Progressive rock. That's why they invited bass player Jordi Planas, who previously recorded "A Fine Stormy Weather" with his band DRACMA. In the same year Negua makes their stage debut, a year later followed by a demo tape. First Xavier Patricio helps the band on vocals on two tracks but he cannot participate 100% in Negua so in 2004 he is replaced by Xiscu López, the current singer. Then the band starts to work on their debut CD entitled "A way out", in 2006 it is released by Luna Negra and Musea (distribution). The record has the collaboration of guest musicians Pito Costa (drums, bass, keyboards) and Juanjo Verdú (guitar) from Pi-2 along Marta Aguilera (backing vocals).
- To me Negua their music sounds as a varied and dynamic blend of melodic rock (frequent echoes from modern Rush, especially the guitar), neo-prog (like IQ and some MARILLION) and symphonic prog (with echoes from GENESIS). The compositions sound fresh, adventurous and contain lots of interesting musical ideas. The Musea website mentions about Negua : "The band's main influences are really wide, from classic Progressive rock (GENESIS, YES, KING CRIMSON or PINK FLOYD) to neo Progressive (MARILLION, IQ...), without mentioning recent bands such as PORCUPINE TREE or DREAM THEATER. One could also hear bits of pop-rock, not unlike Peter GABRIEL's or THE POLICE's."

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

EAC extraction logfile from 18. July 2009, 0:23

Negua / A Way Out

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Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : Yes
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\flac.exe
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2 | 7:54.21 | 5:33.07 | 35571 | 60552
3 | 13:27.28 | 4:07.61 | 60553 | 79138
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5 | 25:16.68 | 11:29.18 | 113768 | 165460
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7 | 44:40.50 | 7:04.71 | 201050 | 232920
8 | 51:45.46 | 7:46.42 | 232921 | 267912

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Filename M:\EAC\sole-survivor\Negua\Negua - A Way Out.wav

Peak level 100.0 %
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC CF21C3B9
Copy CRC CF21C3B9
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

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None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database

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