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Lukas Tower Band : After Long Years (D,rec.1998**,2001-2003**',pub.2004)**'
The style of the band has some “folkrock” flavoures in the content, but it is played like progressive rock, a style in which there are/were very few bands playing (I can think of only a few other bands like Legend, The Morrigan,..) and which might confuse some more strictly genre-chasing reviewers in folk or progressive areas. I must admit this combination is very pleasant to listen to. Like folkrock, the songs are often based upon English and Scottish traditions and literature. The music has a kind of enjoyable relaxed quality. More than once there are jazzy and just here and there a few bluesy touches in the improvisation arrangements (with flute and sax). The singing just here and there tends a bit to a kind of covering-rock-songs kind of singing, so has moments of being less emotionally affected. It is the bonus tracks (from 7 years earlier) that really reveal how the band was a live band that needed to make some compromises in styles, which also shows the reasons for these elements which are luckily nearly still there, and show where the band came from. In Germany, rock bands do not have many choices for its own processes of its growth. Also this band seems to have started with covering other bands, and then trying to build up their own repertoire with it, finding an acceptable way for the public, to work as a live band. Compared to the earlier tracks (which are still good), the band has traveled a whole way, and managed to reach a different level of inspiration.
