{"id":10025,"date":"2024-05-12T16:39:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T14:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kessel-tamerus.nl\/Esthers_Blog\/?p=10025"},"modified":"2024-05-12T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T14:39:16","slug":"lucassen-soeterboeks-plan-nine-the-long-lost-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kessel-tamerus.nl\/Esthers_Blog\/mini-recensie\/lucassen-soeterboeks-plan-nine-the-long-lost-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucassen & Soeterboek’s Plan Nine – The Long Lost Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The basis of ‘The Long Lost Songs’ are tapes of bluesy demos from some 30 years ago, played in by Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon) and Robert Soeterboek (The Cotton Soeterboek Band). Robert’s voice has a pleasantly mild rough rasp. The quality of the backing vocals are good, but occasionally a bit sweet in sound. The predictable timing of these takes away too much attention from the lead vocals at times. You notice that vocals and music during a live concert create a good atmosphere. Laidback tracks are interspersed with catchy tracks. Among other things, there’s a good amount of (“screaming”) guitar playing and a pleasant amount of Hammond. If sampling is added, it is always in service of the whole. CD2 contains mainly demos. During the instrumental demos, you discover that singing along to the music is not easy. However, the tracks are more accessible than Ayreon’s. The crossovers from prog metal to blues\/hard rock are fine. Finally a good album where these two styles go hand in hand. ‘The Long Lost Songs’ will be released 17 May, you can still pre-order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(8\/10) (Music Theories Recordings \/ Mascot Label Group)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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