Description
After Crying — Almost Pure Instrumental, Periferic Records (CD)
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Product Details:
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: Periferic Records
- Artist: After Crying
- Catalogue No.: BGCD 027
- Release: Compilation including four new tracks
- UPC: 5998272702034
- Genre: Progressive Rock / Chamber Rock / Avant-Prog
Product Features
- Format: CD
- Tracks: 14 (four newly recorded)
- Largely instrumental
- Condition: Brand new, factory sealed
Overview
Almost Pure Instrumental is a strong way into After Crying, the Hungarian chamber-rock band who fuse progressive rock with classical and avant-garde writing — cello, brass, and keyboards as central as guitar and drums. This compilation draws from their first decade and adds four new recordings, all of it leaning toward the instrumental side of their work.
The range is wide: short, cinematic pieces ("Overture," "Sleepin' Chaplin") sit beside long, developing epics like the near-twelve-minute "The Insulted and Injured" and the closing "Shining." It's dense, dramatic music, played with a chamber group's precision and a rock band's force.
For followers of European progressive and avant-prog, After Crying are a serious proposition, and this set shows why.
Interesting Facts
- After Crying, formed in Budapest in the 1980s, are among Hungary's most ambitious progressive and chamber-rock ensembles.
- Their instrumentation features cello and brass alongside a rock rhythm section, blurring the line between rock band and chamber group.
- This compilation gathers material from albums including Megalázottak és megszomorítottak (The Insulted and Injured), Föld és Ég (Earth and Sky), and De Profundis, plus four new tracks.
- "The Insulted and Injured" takes its name from the Dostoevsky novel, reflecting the band's literary leanings.
- The band's discography on the sleeve runs from 1990 through their 1997 release.
Track Listing
- Overture — 2:29
- Aqua (new) — 1:58
- Big Evil Fun Fair Final — 5:32
- Windblown Waltz (new) — 3:09
- Pilgrims' March (new) — 5:11
- Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (new) — 3:35
- Sleepin' Chaplin — 2:38
- Suburban Night — 3:32
- The Insulted and Injured — 11:40
- Rondo — 3:43
- Save Our Souls — 2:35
- Struggle for Life — 9:12
- In the End — 2:29
- Shining — 11:48
Publishers
Released by Periferic Records (catalogue BGCD 027).
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