Time Traveler - The Man From Ravcon
Track List:
Past, Present and Future
Clockwork
Giant
Into the Vortex
Journey to the Edge of Time
Yesterday’s Dream
Seize the Day
Tomorrow’s Lament
Yesterday’s D”ream (Reprise)
A Happy Never Ending
Today I received an email with this album as a suggestion from my uncle.
Weird thing is I haven’t shared my daily music listening habits with him and haven’t seen him since this project started.
So I listened to the album. It’s a passion project from what I can tell and the guy behind the music seems quite dedicated, he has been releasing music for over a decade.
I find the tags for the album on Bandcamp interesting:
Progressive rock - Yes, I suppose this would be considered proggy, I’d probably say it’s more melodic ambient
Rock - Agreed
Instrumental - Yes
Prog - See above, I find the instrumentation not very prog, guitar, bass, drum kit, synths only.
Soundtrack - Okay?
Spaghetti western- Huh?
Surf - I didn’t get much of that
North Carolina - Okay?
I searched to see if I could find a bit more story behind this album but decided I would write a narrative for the song “Giant” which is my current favorite from this album.
The song starts with the giant awakening. I picture the interplay between the bass and the guitar as the movement of the hulking giant and the internal monologue while the synths help create a setting and the drums chug forward, emulating the passage of time. The song plays with a descending riff for the first half before a guitar solo and then a devolution of the synths into a NIN like rhythm. The song recovers from this divulgence and continues with a more pronounced guitar solo. And the song fades.
I am actually intrigued by this and there is another album that has Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son as the cover that I will probably listen to.
