Heavystoned Albums · 30.11.2024

My friend Tomas, tour manager and Swiss Army knife of "Villagers of Ioannina City" sent me a Spotify link of his brother's band. He told me to take a listen. Then I go to Spotify and listen to this three-person symphony orchestra and am speechless at the countless layers of synthesizers and harmonies. The band name is the effect of how this effect is used to get a broad and dense sound with just a few instruments. The whole album seems like a concept album to me from the titles, as if you were...

Daily Peaks · 11.08.2024

Mr Bison from Cecina are my declared successors to Yes. I don't know how this band manages to not only copy the complex sound of the prog forefathers, but to expand it even further and incorporate elements such as harmony singing and polyphonic guitars. It's all a grown, organic and natural unity that really captivates me as a musician and brain acrobat, even though I was and am never a fan of progressive rock. Add to that the artistically very appealing and sophisticated video, which is...

Daily Peaks · 26.12.2023

Mr. Bison managed a balancing act between a medieval guitar riff which sounds like an Americana band in the first minute. After that first minute there are two Jon Andersons singing in a twin harmonic vocal line along a syncopic drumming. Then they put a couple of guitar layers over the two vocal lines. 3 minutes gone, mouth and eyes wide open, what a masterpiece of a song.