Sky Architect – Nomad (2017)
After ‘A Billion Years Of Solitude’ we decided that, for this album, we wanted to focus on less complicated, song-based material. But it was also very important for us to write the music together as much as possible, much like we did on our first album ‘Excavations of the mind’.
During ‘Excavations’ we were all students at the conservatory, we we had a very large studio available to us where we could rehearse, compose and record for hours, several days every week.
Now, a couple of years later, we found ourselves in a more difficult situation, where everybody has jobs, lives in different cities and so on.
01. Wasteland
02. Endless Roads (Part I)
03. Endless Roads (Part II)
04. Nomad
05. Dune
06. Sandwalker
07. Race to the Sun
08. Into Singularity (Part I)
09. Into Singularity (Part II)
In the best year of the prog for the decade - 2013, the Dutch eclectic grandmasters Sky Architect came out with their best album up to that date - A Billion Years of Solitude /later surpassed by Nomad/. This album suggests complete ideas of music developments and shaping of constant style of songwriting and musicianship in the eclectic field ...
"Nomad" from 2017 is a 4 star record like the debut in my world. I must admit being very surprised at the layers of sound and the complexity of the music. This is Prog my friends and a challenge at times. I also forgot how heavy they can get and while it all doesn't work I bow in admiration at what they have created here. While the vocals aren ...
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