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This fine Italian band is rooted in 1994, most members
are from the Marillion (Fish-era) cover band Wildfire. Marygold
started to play covers from Marillion and Genesis but gradually
composed more own material, this resulted in the debut CD
entitled The Guns Of Marygold. The vocals are in English
and the running time is like that from the 'good old LP's',
at about forty minutes, nostalgia time!***
1. Hara-kiri Show (7.25) : The intro contains a spacey
sound, it evokes Hackett his ominous sounding song Land
Of A Thousand Autumns. Then a compelling rhythm with lots
of breaks and shifting moods, it sounds very dynamic featuring
dramatic vocals, fiery guitar and fluent synthesizer flights.***
2. Crows On The Tree (6.32) : A mellow track with melancholic
vocals and fragile guitar work, followed by beautiful guitar
play with the evolume pedal and sensitive piano. The final
part delivers a mid-tempo with howling electric guitar,
very moving!***
3. Marygold (7.21) : First twanging guitars in the
vein of early Gensis in a dreamy climate with warm vocals
and a slow synthesizer solo. Halfway a break, then a mid-tempo
and we can enjoy delicate work on organ, inspired vocals
and slightly distored guitar.***
4. Sunflowers (5.21) : This composition contains lots
of variation and flowing changing climates, from dreamy
with sparkling piano to a fluent rhythm with flashy synthesizer
work, fiery guitar and passionated vocals.***
5. Tania Stands... (2.56) : A short song with wonderful
interplay between the acoustic guitar (twanging and frequent
flageolets), halfway there is some delicate flute, simply
beautiful!***
6. The Wizard (9.46) : After strong drum beats and
fiery guitar the atmosphere turns into dreamy with a slow
rhtyhm delivering soaring keyboards, sensitive electric
guitar with volume pedal play and warm vocals. Gradually
the tempo become faster and the sound more lush and bombastic,
culminating in exciting interplay between guitar and keyboards
along passionated vocals, this is Marygold at their best!
Suddenly the music stops and a bell rings (my Bordercollie
Lola looked confused at me or she had to bark ..!), then
the music returns with a mellow climate featuring wonderful
symphonic prog with lush keyboards and howling electric
guitar, I am on cloud #9!***
Marygold sounds very warm and beautiful and is recommended
to fans of pleasant and melodic prog like Genesis, Marillion,
Pendragon, Camel and IQ but a bit more subdued, I would
say that Marygold is (to quote Fish) "..for the romantics
in the audience..".***
Erik
Neuteboom
Progwalhalla.nl
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