Music For Keyboards reviewed reviewed in Planet Metal (Germany)

Review - CD services/Dead Earnest:

Danish musician whose worked for years in the world of classical, soundtrack and rock music circles - and it's the first two of that list which shine through here. With an album of 9 tracks between three and nine minutes long, what you hear is the sweeping, epic nature of expansive synths/strings-dominated music that is positively filmic in both design and effect. Choc full of melody, these are tune-laden compositions which rise up and fill your horizon, a bit like some soundtrack to a film on the Grand Canyon or similar sort of thin. In other words, it's music that evokes imagery relating to vast open spaces or huge structures - that sort of thing. Epic in scope and nature, if not in length, it's music with purpose. With the sound predominantly performed on what sounds awfully like Emerson's old '70's Moog synths combined with string synths and drums, there's a decided seventies feel about it all, while the tracks themselves don't readily conform to any particular time frame - as with most soundtrack styled music - being taken for what it is. So, if you like huge-sounding compositions of a decidedly soundtrack nature, performed on synths and drums, with occasional seventies ELP  styled organ, that are melodic, strong, rhythmically solid, a bit of a cross between synth and prog and accessible, then this album should suit you down to the ground.

Andy Garibaldi (CD Services/Dead Earnest)

Playlist - Brainwaves

Tina malia - Shimshai
Jaya bhagavan
Jaya bhagavan
Spirit Voyage
2005

Michele Ippolito
Cerebral
Mystic moods
Penrose Records
2005

Michele Ippolito
Mystic Mood
Mystic Moods
Penrose Records
2005

Drala
Home Again
Dharma Moon Presents At Ease
Dharma Moon
2006

Nicholas Gunn
Count Your Blessings
Beyond Grand Canyon
Gemini Sun Records
2006

Soul Food + Brent lewis
Chakra Rhythm
Yoga Groove

Soul Food
2006
Govi
Nettie Gem
Jewel Box
Higher Octave Music
2006

Lars Boutrup
The Perfect Stranger
Music for Keyboards
Ex'cess Records
2005

Lars Boutrup
Agent Orange
Music for Keyboards
Ex'cess Records
2005

Playlists - The Dividing Line

The Dividing Line : June 4, 2006

1. Rene Young - ProgRoots On The Air (2:55)
2. The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down (2:22)
3. Secret Saucer - Star Rise (1:29)
4. Secret Saucer - Sword of Conneaut (6:49)
5. Secret Saucer - Solar Winds (4:19)
6. Yes - Close To The Edge (The Solid Time Of Change; Total Mass Retain; I GetUp I Get Down; Seasons Of Man) (18:44)
7. War Of The Worlds - The Serpent Machine (0:38)
8. Tool - Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann) (3:46)
9. Tool - Rosetta Stoned (11:11)
10. Lars Boutrup - The Day After (5:34)
11. Eyestrings - DLBN promo - Ryan Parmenter (0:06)
12. Eyestrings - Valid For A Week (11:48)
13. Filter - The Best Things (4:25)
14. War Of The Worlds - The Harvester Machines (0:41)
15. Billy Joel - Allentown (3:52)
16. Tears For Fears - Raoul And The Kings Of Spain (5:15)
17. Tears For Fears - God's Mistake (3:47)
18. Carl Palmer - 2006 Tour Promo (0:13)
19. Carl Palmer - Tank (4:42)
20. Sieges Even - To The Ones Who Have Failed (7:26)
21. Muse - Stockholm Syndrome (4:58)
22. King Crimson - Indoor Games (5:37)
23. The Flower Kings - Check In (1:37)
24. The Flower Kings - Monsters & Men (21:21)
25. The Screen - Witness (3:35)
26. Cheap Trick - Goodnight (1:52)


The Dividing Line : June 11, 2006, Show #202

1. Rene Young - ProgRoots On The Air (2:55)
2. Captain Beyond - Raging River Of Fear (3:47)
3. Iona - Menu Background Music (1:00)
4. Iona - Woven Chord (10:27)
5. Iona - Wave After Wave (6:39)
6. Dave Bainbridge - Over the Waters (7:29)
7. Tool - Vicarious (7:06)
8. OSI - Free (3:22)
9. Pink Floyd - Us And Them (4:23)
10. Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (11:23)
11. Pink Floyd - Mademoiselle Nobs (2:04)
12. Pink Floyd - Brain Damage (6:57)
13. Lars Boutrup - Emersong (6:57)
14. Lars Boutrup - Northern Lights (4:44)
15. Carl Palmer - ID-ProgRoots (0:04)
16. Emerson Lake & Palmer - 06 - From The Beginning (4:12)
17. Emerson Lake & Palmer (Live 1997) - Take A Pebble (6:26)
18. Trigon - Explicit Lyrics (9:48)
19. Ars Nova - Kali (Demolition And Massacre) (9:21)
20. Triumvirat - The March to the Eternal City (8:46)
21. Triumvirat - Spartacus (7:39)
22. Jack Foster III - Nirvana In The Notes (14:07)
23. Evergrey - Intro (1:38)
24. Evergrey - Blinded (4:45)
25. Evergrey - End of Your Days (4:38)
26. David Gilmour - Wish You Were Here (5:47)
27. David Gilmour with David Crosby & Graham Nash - Find the Cost of Freedom (2:04)
28. David Gilmour - Comfortably Numb (8:45)
29. Cheap Trick - Goodnight (1:52)


The Dividing Line: July 16, 2006, Show #207

1. Rene Young - ProgRoots On The Air (2:55)
2. Deep Purple - Hard Lovin' Man (7:11)
3. Pink Floyd - See Emily Play (2:55)
4. Barrett, Syd - Syd Barrett- Effervescing Elephant (1:54)
5. Pink Floyd - Careful with That Axe, Eugene (5:44)
6. Pink Floyd - Point Me At The Sky (3:35)
7. Syd Barrett - Two of a Kind (2:34)
8. Systems Theory - Silent Service (11:36) (Background music)
9. Wobbler - Rubato Industry (12:45)
10. Frost* - The Other Me (4:51)
11. Frost* - Black Light Machine (10:07)
12. Mirror System - Mirror Beach (8:18) (Background music)
13. Cream - Spoonful (Live At The Filmore) (16:46)
14. Derek Sherinian - The Monsoon (6:05)
15. Jam Camp - Wormhole (4:21) (Background music)
16. Project Creation - The Floating World (7:12)
17. Project Creation - Living Under A Blue Sky (4:20)
18. Iron Butterfly - Iron Butterfly Theme (4:34)
19. id-kim mitchell (0:03)
20. Max Webster - Here Among The Cats (3:04)
21. Max Webster - Coming Off The Moon (3:43)
22. Kim Mitchell - O Mercy Louise (3:59)
23. Deep Forest - Deep Forest (Dream City Mix) (6:31) (Background music)
24. Black Sabbath - Don't Start (Too Late) (0:49)
25. Black Sabbath - Symptom Of The Universe (6:29)
26. Noise Therapy - Fast Like A Rabbit (0:10)
27. Noise Therapy - Losermagnet (3:08)
28. Noise Therapy - Down (3:58)
29. Stackridge - Fish In a Glass (7:20)
30. Just Offshore - 24-7 (5:57) (Background music)
31. Tool - H (6:06)
32. Liquid Village - Moth (4:00)
33. Syzygy - The Allegory of Light - Distant Light (5:37)
34. Cannata - Life (4:19)
35. Cannata - French (3:05)
36. Van & Borner - Golden Spirits (7:28) (Background music)
37. Typhoid Mary - The Bridge (3:59)
38. Ambrosia - Somewhere I've Never Travelled (4:12)
39. Lars Boutrup - Northern Lights (4:44)
40. Robbert Berry - Roundabout (6:54)
41. Cheap Trick - Goodnight (1:52)


The Dividing Line: Behind The Lines, August 1, 2006
Guest host ReneYoung

1. Retroheads - Earthsong (10:45)
2. Shawn Bishop - BTL Intro (Rene Young) (1:40)
3. Clearlight - Movement I (Background music)
4. Retroheads - Judgement Day (9:16)
5. Xinema - Blind is the Light (6:54)
6. Ayreon - Another Time, Another Space (5:20)
7. Clearlightt - Movement II (Background music)
8. Freak Kitchen - Heroin Breakfast (4:06)
9. Spock's Beard - Second Overture (3:46)
10. Spock's Beard - 4th Of July (3:10)
11. Spock's Beard - I'm The Guy (4:48)
12. Clearlightt - Movement IV (Background music)
13. Frost* - The Other Me (4:51

The Genesis Houah:
14. Duke - Turn It On Again (3:51)
15. Duke - Behind the lines (5:31)
16. Lars Boutrup - Agent Orange (6:04)
17. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (4:49)
18. Genesis - Fly On a Windshield (4:23)
19. Genesis - Broadway Melody of 1974 (0:33)
20. Peter Gabriel - Red Rain (6:20)
21. Steve Hackett - Watcher Of The Skies (8:40)
22. Shaun Guerin - A Queen's Tale (5:51)
23. Deep Forest - Sunrise at Alcatraz Part 2
24. Genesis - ... In That Quiet Earth (4:49)
25. IZZ - Cage Medley (16:22)

Back to the regular show:
26. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machines (Background music)
27. DLBN Promo - Devin Townsend (0:12)
28. Devin Townsend - Olives (3:21)
29. Devin Townsend - Mountain (6:32)
30. Devin Townsend - Deep Peace (7:34)
31. Frost* - Snowman (3:55)
32. Collective Soul - Heavy (2:56)
33. Lars Boutrup - While The City Sleeps(5:42)
34. Kings X - I Can't Help It (3:52) * Request
35. Jesus Jones - The Next Big Thing (4:01)
36. Jesus Jones - Motion (4:54)
37. House Of Not - Force Of Nature (4:05)
38. Jadis - I Never Noticed (5:26)
39. Jadis - Fanatic (4:06)
40. Jadis - Yourself Alone (5:58)
41. Anthony Phillips - Lostwithiel (4:36)


The Dividing Line: August 6, 2006, Show #210

1. Rene Young - ProgRoots On The Air (2:55)
2. Clip: Do you know anything about computers? (0:03)
3. Billy Thorpe - 1991 (6:46)
4. Bruce BecVar - Jacarandigo (Background Music)
5. Spaced Out - Event Horizon (2:13)
6. Spaced Out - Art Attack Pt 2 (5:51)
7. Clip: Your system sucks (0:04)
8. Silent Agreement - Burning the Revolution (6:09)
9. Van & Borner - Shadow Dancing (Background Music)
10. Retroheads - Rainy Day (5:28)
11. Retroheads - Living In A Bubble (8:31)
12. Retroheads - Black Hole Eyes (6:50)
13. Billy Sheehan - The Trees (4:33)
14. Lars Boutrup - Rockall (8:54)

THE YES HOUR:
15. Clip: Yes, yes (0:03)
16. Yes - Firebird Suite (1:23)
17. Yes - Going for the One (5:37)
18. Peter Banks - Astral Traveler (7:00)
19. Yes - And You And I (Cord Of Life; Eclipse; The Preacher The Teacher; Apocalypse) (10:11)
20. XYZ - Track 10 (4:53)
21. Mike Keneally - Faithful Axe (1:25)
22. Yes - In the Presence Of (10:23)
23. Yes - Lift Me Up (6:30)
24. Chris Squire - Silently Falling (11:27)

Back to the regular show (briefly):
25. Clip: Just one moment (0:01)
26. Brett Garsed - Undoing (Background Music)
27. Klaatu - Around The Universe In Eighty Days (4:58) REQUEST
28. Klaatu - Older (3:16) REQUEST

ADVENTURES IN VINYL:
29. Gibson Les Paul Recording promotional sound sheet
30. Brian Protheroe - You / I (5:42)
31. Edgar Winter Group - Some Kinda Animal (3:05)
32. Edgar Winter Group - Easy Street (4:13)
33. Edgar Winter Group - Sundown (3:25)
34. Tonio K - H.A.T.R.E.D. (4:21)

Back to the regular show (again):
35. Trance Lucid - The Birds of Years Past (Background Music)
36. Karfagen - A Winter Tale - Part 1 (4:27)
37. Karfagen - A Winter Tale - Part 2 (5:34)
38. Nil - Quarante Jours Sur Le Sinai (0:12)
39. Nil - Savoir, Vouloir, Osr, Se Taire / Introduction (1:50)
40. Nil - Prologue: Atlantis (4:01)
41. Nil - Chapitre Premier: Exil (1:56)
42. Nil - Chapitre Premier: Exil (1:27)
43. Nil - Chapitre Deuxieme: Osiris (0:37)
44. Nil - Chapitre Troisieme: Isis (1:23)
45. Nil - Chapitre Troisieme: Isis (2:20)
46. Jam Camp - Wormhole (Background Music)
47. Hamadryad - Alien Spheres (5:59)
48. Cheap Trick - Goodnight (1:52)


The Dividing Line: August 27, 2006, Show #213

1. Rene Young - ProgRoots On The Air (2:55)
AM Radio Hits, Summer of 1968:
2. Mason Williams - Classical Gas (3:07)
3. Lars Boutrup - Northern Lights (Background Music)
4. Fever Tree - San Francisco Girls (3:34)
5. Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild (3:32)
6. Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon (4:52)
7. Nazz - Open My Eyes (2:45)
8. The Nazz - Hello It's Me (3:57)
9. Doors - Hello I Love You (2:13)
10. The Beatles - Revolution (3:24)
11. Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash (3:45)
12. Eric Burdon & The Animals - Sky Pilot, Part 1 (Single Version) (4:24)
13. Cream - White Room (5:03)
14. Deep Purple - Hush (4:25)
15. The Millennium - Prelude (1:17)
16. The Millennium - To Claudia On Thursday (3:25)

17. Yes Yes Yes! (0:03)
18. Yes - And You And I (11:23)
19. Stanley Snail - Siberian Khatru (8:08)
20. Yes - Arriving UFO (6:03)
21. Yes - Tempus Fugit (5:16)
22. Yes - Mood For A Day (3:02)
23. Yes - City of Love (4:51)
24. Yes - Big Generator (4:34)
25. Yes - Beyond and Before (4:58)
26. Yes - Starship Trooper (9:34)
27. Chick Corea - Bessie's Blues (Background Music)

Adventures In Vinyl (0:12)
28. Heart - Heartless
29. Hudson-Ford - Silent Star (8:27)
30. James Gang - Live In Concert - Stop
31. James Gang - Live In Concert - You're Gonna Need Me
32. James Gang - Live In Concert - Take A Look Around
33. James Gang - Live In Concert - Tend My Garden
34. James Gang - Live In Concert - Ashes, The Rain & I
35. Systems Theory - Silent Service (Background Music)

36. Frost* - Snowman (3:55)
37. Coheed and Cambria - Keeping the Blade (2:09)
38. Coheed and Cambria - Always and Never (2:23)
39. Jesus Jones - Welcome Back Victoria (3:37)
40. Mirror System - Lazy (Background Music)
41. Jesus Jones - Idiot Stare (5:10)
42. Cheap Trick - Goodnight (1:52)

The Dividing Line: September 3, 2006, Show #214

1. Rene Young - ProgRoots On The Air (2:55)
2. Jeff Beck - Beck's Bolero (2:53)
3. Just Offshore - Ocean Storm (Background Music)
4. Frost* - Hyperventilate (7:31)
5. Frost* - No Me, No You (6:06)
6. Frost* - Snowman (3:55)
7. ProgRoots ID - Steven Wilson (0:05)
8. Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere (But Not Here) (12:02)
9. Porcupine Tree - Futile (6:04)
10. Lars Boutrup - The Day After (5:33)
11. Alannah Myles - Still Got This Thing (4:37)
12. Alannah Myles - Love Is (3:40)
13. ELP - Hoedown (3:47)

14. Yes Yes Yes!
15. Yes - Close To The Edge (18:14)
16. Yes - Heart Of The Sunrise (11:23)
17. Howe Steve - Labyrinth (Background Music)
18. Yes - White Car (1:21)
19. Yes - Machine Messiah (10:25)
20. Yes - Sound Chaser (9:30)
21. Systems Theory - Zero Sum Equation (Background Music)

Adventures In Vinyl:
22. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Demolition Man (Somewhere In Afrika, 1983) (3:40)
23. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Runner (Somewhere In Afrika, 1983) (4:40)
24. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Rebel (Somewhere In Afrika, 1983) (3:52)
25. Scorpions - I'm Going Mad (Lonesome Crow, 1972) (4:53)
26. Scorpions - It All Depends (Lonesome Crow, 1972) (3:26)
27. Scorpions - In Search Of The Peace Of Mind (Lonesome Crow, 1972) (4:59)

23. Carl Palmer - ID-ProgRoots (0:04)
24. Carl Palmer - Toccata (8:00)
25. Mirror System - Mirror Beach (Background Music)
26. Xinema - Ghost of a Memory Part I - Nothing to Fear (4:00)
27. Xinema - Ghost of a Memory Part II - Grapes of Wrath (0:43)
28. Xinema - Ghost of a Memory Part III - the Passage (1:18)
29. Xinema - Ghost of a Memory Part IV - Black Pigeon (4:54)
30. Xinema - Ghost of a Memory Part V - Deus Ex Machina (1:25)
31. Soundtrack - 2001: A Space Odyssey - Gayne Ballet Suite (Background Music)
32. Spiraling - Lightning Twice (4:26)
33. Cheap Trick - Goodnight (1:52)

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