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Sergey Dudin - 2001 - "Eternal Call"
(58 min, 'SD')
 
Track List:
Prologue.
Many thanks to Sergey for sending us two same CDs. It feels like he knew that there are only two of us - myself and the site's webmaster, designer, etc Gene Revin - who
work on ProgressoR permanently since its birth on October 1, 1998 (though our not
established member Marat Rakhmatulin helps us all his best with the only 'sad' reservation - when he can). This is a joint effort of the Doudin family & their friends from the Russian-language diaspora in the USA, though there is no one English word in the album's booklet or on its back sleeve, as well as on the CD itself - all in Russian. But bearing in mind that all lyrics in the album is also in Russian, it becomes more or less clear: this work was created just for the music lovers in the
Russian-language diaspora in the USA and, maybe, in Canada (see also a few notes in this respect in the end of the Summary). Thinking now of this album, it seems that I
just devised how to label the musical styles (of any, probably genres) more precisely. And although in this respect I'm going to use concepts classifying 'strongness' of cigarettes, I find these quite acceptable concerning our genre too. You'll see the first example of the new method of labeling the styles more precisely already in the Summary of this review. Now, asking all my brothers in pen to consider the new approach to labeling bands' styles as my own discovery, I have prepared a phrase which all of you surely know: "All Rights Reserved" (just kidding).
The album.
Are you a die-hard fan of Pink Floyd, and also of all things that sound like them? Would you love a new Pink Floyd album which has totally the firm band's sound and structures (so familiar and recognizable immediately!), but raised to the power of extreme accessibility (add also that all the vocal parts there were sung in Russian)? Also, do you like music completely free of all originality, after all? If so, then you're gonna love this band to death! Because listening to "Eternal Call" I hear a unique simplistic copy of Pink Floyd (so by no means a true clone - in this case I would highly recommend you to read the Key Review called Clones, Clowns, Strangetudes). Well, now I see no need to add anything more to this description.
Summary.
It's not easy to find that "Eternal Call" is in some ways an album of the Progressive genre. Listen to it a couple times and you'll agree with me. First of all, each song on the album contains instrumental parts and some of them are quite interesting despite the fact that they're so similar to some simple arrangements of Pink Floyd. A completely Gilmoresque guitar lines (in general) were played at least more tastefully than that on the album of Obscured By Clouds. The latter are just a PF cover-band, who however advertised (just boomed!) their self-released CD-R "Bleed" throughout all possible virtual and paper media so extensively that some (sorry, I just have no other word except the next one) foolish edition (don't really know, if it's a magazine or a webzine) even included it in its Top-100 of the best progressive albums of 1999! So secondly, "Eternal Call" consists of songs written by the band's leader himself, but not by Pink Floyd. Thirdly, this album should have been released or at least properly distributed in the CIS (ex-USSR) - then the guys of Eternal Call would 'have felt on
their own skin' what great popularity really is. And finally, how to name the style of Eternal Call and many other bands that perform a kind of highly accessible yet progressive music? This is Light Neo Progressive, and there is a lot of the same Light, and also Mild and Strong types growing on the Lands of Music.
VM. April 10, 2001
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