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Canvas Solaris - The Atomized Dream
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Written by Deepak Raghu   
Sunday, 22 June 2008 18:26
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ImageCanvas Solaris have been putting out albums consistently for a few years now. Being a progressive fan, their brand of “prog” never really made any impact on me like how label mates Spiral Architect or Gordian Knot had managed to. But with Atomic Dreams, the band has successfully managed to keep me inspired and absolutely spellbound for a couple of weeks now. These guys are definitely one of the most promising “new” progressive bands to come out in the last decade or so. Musically, the band has come a long way since their debut 'Sublimation', which was released in 2004. The album starts off with 'The Binaural Beat' - a very psychedelic trance inducing number. It's after this that the album really kicks into full gear with songs like – “Reflections Carried To Mirror””, “Heat Distortion Manifest” and “Solar Droid”.

The sound of the band is kind of hard to describe but anyone who even remotely likes progressive music ought to check this out. There's plenty of dissonant Watchtower-esque sections on top of the very easily noticeable 70's progressive rock and early 80s synthesizer driven progressive sounds. They’ve also managed to use percussive instruments very effectively on this album. Really jelling in with the rest of the band. Especially on bass heavy songs like “Chromatic Dusk” and “Patterns Spiral Into Swarm”. The album art also needs special mention. It reminds me of old Cathedral album covers.


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Year – 2008
Label – Sensory Records

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Our valuable member Deepak Raghu has been with us since Friday, 20 July 2007.

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Re:Canvas Solaris - The Atomized Dream
Jun 23 2008 07:32:44
A decent album in which a more aggressively distorted sound would not have been amiss.
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Re:Canvas Solaris - The Atomized Dream
Jun 23 2008 11:12:22
Chacko, listen to it with your fancy headphones. Some of the songs are very trippy.
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Re:Canvas Solaris - The Atomized Dream
Jun 23 2008 13:06:35
Man I really liked their first two albums. Forgot to listen to the 2007 one but I think it's time I caught up with these maniacs. They're not doing any easy listening fusion-lite on this are they? Penumbra Diffuse had a bit of that going on already and that's not the kind of direction I'd like them to have taken since.
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