From: Mike De Lang <>
Aether - Visions: Another killer album. Reminds me a little of Camel.
From: Richard Stockwell <>
ALBUM OF THE MONTH - DECEMBER 99
AETHER - VISIONS
Aether are a four piece Brazilian symphonic/progressive with a sound that
is described as close to that of English band CAMEL. The track descriptions
on the bands first release are as follows: "Millennium" represents the
EARTH seen from the Cosmos and it's wakening to life. It is a fluidic
overture to the CD. "Autumn", like the name says, is a musical vision of
autumn. "Whales" was composed some years ago when Green Peace was at work
worldwide in the process to protect the whales from extinction. This piece
is a ode to the whales. "A New Bright Day", is the only sung track. "Trindade
Island" is a vision from the island. The track "Kings & Knights" is the
expression of a medieval story with their knights, kings, princess, gnomes,
magicians and everything more. "November" represents the arrive of winter.
The "Altenburg Suite" is a symphonic vision of one of the oldest castles in
Germany, the Altenburg castle. The suite represents 24 hours in the castle.
It begins with the arrival at the castle on a rainy afternoon. The night
claims the voices from the past, of all those people who left their
presence there. The voices vanish with the arrive of morning lights (The
Birth of a Morning). The day has it's symbol in the movement "The Sun at
the Tower". The bucolic end of the day is represented by the duet of a
acoustic guitar and violin in the movement "The Lake". The end of the suite
becomes the part, "Essence of Freedom", that crosses the time barrier,
beginning with a baroque view that morfs to progressive ballad and
resolving at a Jazz Rock. "The Woods", closes the trilogy formed with the
tracks "Autumn" and "November". The last track, "The Ocean", closes the
trilogy formed by the tracks "Whales" and "Trindade Island".