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yond the frontiers of our solar system andthe Milky Way.How does Thanasis Lightbridge, the mastermindof Dol Ammad, achieve thisthough? Thanasis is a fan of music in thevein of Vangelis. To refresh your memory:Vangelis wrote the soundtrack to 1492with Gérard Depardieu, a movie aboutChristopher Columbus' journey to the newworld and its discovery. Whoever remembersthe main theme song, the choir andepic scale of it will find it easier to get anidea of what Dol Ammad is about althoughthe choir is pretty much the onlycommon ground shared by these two.Thanasis doesn't use too many classicalmusic elements to create his trademarkspacial atmosphere. Actually almost nonelet apart the choir and the horns. Try topicture it like this (metaphorically). Themembers of the choir are standing as thebrightest stars in the nightsky and fill theinstrumental explosion (big bang...) withlife and soul and brings vitality into thesupposedly empty infinitiy of the universe.That is to give you a picture of the musicalconsistency we are dealing here with.Amazingly dense keyboards get theirpunch through distorted guitars, the choiris lifted to a divine level by doubling theirlines with horns and synthesizal frenzy.Whoever expects an orgy in terms of epicmusic is guaranteed to get it. However,Thanasis doesn't always go full scale.Rhapsody's Alex Holzwarth isn't alwaysthere to doublebassdrum the songs to newhighs of grandeur. Thanasis understandswhen it is time for a little break to primarlylet the listener recover but secondlyand most importantly to get more diversityinto the course of the album.The probably biggest strength of this albumis its sheer amazing amount of qualitycomposition and how long it takes toreally learn this album by heart. I listenedto it so many times now and trust me: ittakes forever to really grasp this album.Not really because of its compository complexitybut when you listen to the albumyou are so absorbed by the atmosphere itcreates that in first instance you will listento this over and over again because it'slike a free ticket to your own interstellarparadise, and for me personally, it is aplace I really like to be at as much as possible.And then, someday maybe, you willwant to work your way through this cosmicstorm of musical elements you didn'treally care about before because all thatmattered was the effect. The keyboards,the drums, the guitar, how the choir andthe synths throw the main parts back andforth to each other and how it all explodesin a big acoustic orgasm that gives itslistener an amount of enjoyment thathardly fits into the unpresent frontiers ofour universe...Star Tales comes in a beautiful digipackthat perfectly underlines how colorful anddiverse and way ahead of our time thismusic is. I recommend that you go towww.electronicartmetal.com right nowand order your copy right away... and alsoget Ocean Dynamics while you are at it!That should give you enough ElectronicMetal to chew on for a couple of months.Space on!DavidDOL THEETAGoddessRelease: 2008, AugustLabel: Electronic Art Metal RecordsAvantgenre: Electronic Art MetalDuration: 17:17Origin: GreeceOfficial site: http://www.thanasislightbridge.com.............................................................................................................................................