Sometime in Febreny – Where Mountains Hide

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In this world of ours, everything is connected, and a pure randomness has been decisive for the Sometime in Febary.
In fact, the story starts from a job that does not concern music: we are in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Tristan Aven is a handyman behind the counter of a local bar; The place where he works is, however, of a certain Paul Waggoner, guitarist of the Beteween the Buried and me who, when he discovers that Tristan also plays the guitar and composes music, involves him on the tour of his group.
Just this spark then leads to the first creations of Tristan, then it is a succession of joints: from the first EP “Here Goes” in 2021 to the first LP “There Goes” in 2023, both with the addition of the drummer Scott Barber and the bassist Morgan Johnson, on the debut on tour far and wide in the States.
And once a randomness sets in motion a series of events, if there is constancy and passion you can reach a sequel: so here we come to the present day, with the signature of the contract with Inside Out Music and the new eleven tracks that make up “Where Mountains Hide”, an excellent condensed of progressive metal instrumental music.
The main component is the melodic approach, which permeates both all the solos and the atmospheres, which not only refer to the great progenitor of the genre, such as Dream Theater, The Flower Kings, Yes as well as Haken and Pain of Salvation, but range up to jazz and blues influences, as in the song “The Bad Fight” – where the aforementioned Paul Waggoner also participates In “What was Heard” and “What Was Said”, where another member of the Beteween the Buried and Me, Dan Briggs, brings its added value in inserting elements such as the mandolin and the Banjo.
If on the one hand a completely instrumental album can be sometimes repetitive or end in itself, in this “Where Mountains Hide” we let ourselves be carried away by the continuous changes of rhythm dictated by the rolling of Scott Barber, also good at brushing in the manner of other genres, from the lower vibrant of Morgan Johnson and from all the evolutions of Tristan Aven, who are acers, agreements or tapping.
Furthermore, all this, together with the choice of the sound designer Eric Guenther, keyboardist of The Contorersionist, leads to a progressive metal that leads to World Music, without however losing a guiding thread from song to song; These connections allow easy use and satisfying listening, given that we move from more ambient and post-rock moments such as in “funeral house” to other more rhythmic and rough, such as “outside in”.
For those who find moments of pleasure for their ears in the present day with Bernth, Polypia and Plini, even with the Sometime in Febargy it will pass fifty minutes in a bubble cloaked in melodies.

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