CD Details

ERSATZ

4/3 DE TRIO
2004 , FRANCE - Out of print/Fuori stampa

Label: MUSEA

ALBUM REVIEW
Actually by the time of release of their second (and unfortunately last) album here called “Ersatz” (German word for substitute) the band had been left already as a trio and been dissolved since drummer Didier Pégeron being only 26 years old had been sadly died due to a car accident. So this one is in fact a tribute album to him and has been only released for this reason. And what an excellent tribute, there’s actually no way of comparison to their debut, it’s miles away in terms of style coherence and quality...Being almost all instrumental (apart from the song “La Blonde” with pleasant vocals by guest Elsa Klajnberg) this highly versatile record is anything than a boring or easy listen but rather a very interesting and enjoyable one for lots of spins. Its versatility in fact is that high that it really offers something for any preferred taste be it heavy, dark, symphonic, melancholic, highly complex or acoustic. Certainly the kind of style 4/3 de Trio is playing here might be called derivative and not really groundbreaking and just for this reason alone I wouldn’t call this one necessarily a masterpiece of progressive music. One can hear clear influences by Crimson, Anekdoten and Anglagard (mainly in the guitar work which is really outstanding) and at times their country fellow band Taal is coming to one’s mind...Finally the only thing left for me saying is that I’d highly recommend this album to any Prog fan looking for extraordinary music. (Dieter Fischer)