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Moria Falls - The Long Goodbye (1995)

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Moria Falls - The Long Goodbye (1995)

Moria Falls - The Long Goodbye (1995)
EAC Rip | FLAC (images & cue & log) | 387 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 133 MB | Artwork (JPEG 300 dpi) | 44 MB | 58:31
Genre: Progressive Rock / Art Rock | Country: UK | Label: Verulamium Recordings | VRCDMF003

Wow! Very good neo prog band from England! Moria Falls debuts with an excellent CD that is a pleasure to listen to from the first hearing. Very creative and with lots of good songs. As one should expect from a prog band, the musicanship is superb, with many guitar\keyboards solos, duels, interplays. Miffs vocals are really different from most neo prog outfits and it works very well through the record. Ok, one may say nothing here is very original. So what? You don't have to be original to be good and vice versa. And Moria Falls proves this point: their songs are very good and the arrangements make the whole CD flows without a hinch all the way through, from beginning to end.If you like neo prog, with strong Pink Floyd overtones, this one's for you. I'm looking forward to get their second CD. Highly recommended!
Review by Tarcisio Moura
Here we have an outstanding band from the UK. On first hearing, the direction they seem to be coming from is PENDRAGON/GENESIS influences. On subsequent plays a PINK FLOYD flavour could be detected and on the second album, "Embrace", a hint of the Beatles was evident. The flute on the album "The Long Goodbye", played by Martin Orford, adds a bit of variation and I found this album to be just a touch the better of the two. Long tracks with that typical dramatic vocal style, HACKETTesque guitars, and gopopular Prog bands of the moment, however they do have their own sound. Fans of symphonic progressive rock should find many a happy hour listening to both of these.
Moria Falls could be compared to several of the most popular Prog bands of the moment, however they do have their own sound. The Long Goodbye is a concept album it is all about the torment of nightmares, the dream state, reality and finding a way to deal with the demons that lurk in all our subconsciences. The power of the positive light perhaps… goodness to combat the evil darkness. I personally believe that this debut CD is a better realised effort than some of their more well know contemporaries. The album pulls no punches and from the opening track Waking Up Screaming (All 14 minutes of it) you know what you are going to get. That is not to say the album is predictable, but it is fair to say that MF´s cards are firmly laid on the table from the outset. The second track Traveller seems to me to be perhaps the most important track as it introduces us to the character who seems to be messing with our dream-state, is she an unrequited love returned to haunt us or something more sinister? That I will leave to your interpretation. The track features some excellent keyboards and Martin Orford excels with some delicate flute work.
Moria Falls - The Long Goodbye (1995)

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Tracklist:

1. Waking Up Screaming (14:20)
2. Traveller (7:09)
3. Out Of Darkness (7:57)
4. Still Raining (1:11)
5. Mists (3:16)
6. Frost (8:13)
7. Perfect World (7:07)
8. The Long Goodbye (8:45)

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 20. October 2009, 21:03

Moria Falls / The Long Goodbye

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Personnel

- Miff / vocals
-Glen Sanderman / guitars
- David White / keyboards
- Patrick Darlington / bass
- Richard Jordan / drums
- Martin Orford / flute
- Kelly Hudson, Clive Nolan / additional voices

All thanks to original releaser

Moria Falls - The Long Goodbye (1995)