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Line-up:
Tommy Rehn - Guitar, Bass, Keyboard
Martin - Vocals
Henrik Flyman - Guitar, Bass, Keyboard
Tracklist:
1. Tales Of Xet Sof
2. They Where Never Even Meant To Be
3. King Kong Song
4. The Melter Of Ice
5. Radio’s To Blame
6. Don’t Try This At Home!
7. The Past
8. Bring Us Back
9. I Lost It All
10. Angtoria
11. Why
Website:
www.moahnimoahna.in.se
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Lets go back in 1997 when an unknown group with a really strange name, releases an album with the simple title “Why”. This group had released only one more CD (“Temple Of Life”) but almost nobody paid the appropriate attention to the group. Their “Why” album had almost the same luck, because few people did understand the meaning of this CD.
Anyone of you, who is reading this review and has listened to this album, knows that I am in a very difficult situation because this record cannot be described at all! The group is influenced from the power metal scene, classical music, pop rhythms,
rock ‘n’ roll (because of the piano rhythms) and even musicals in the way the vocalist sings and the other instruments follow! All tracks give to the listener a feeling of joy and you will catch yourself smiling after some songs without knowing… “Why”. The lyrics are very clever and have a great sense of humor. Read some titles to understand what am I talking about: “Radio’s To Blame” and “Don’t Try This At Home”! (an incredible instrumental song). The group is extremely open minded and if you are not convinced, let me tell you that in this album they have made a cover of the famous track “King Kong Song”
(Abba)… Do you know many groups who would dare to do something like that? And if I haven’t persuaded you yet, I must tell you that these guys were planning to release, with their next album a Frank’s Sinatra cover for the song “Love And Marriage”! (Yes the soundtrack of the legendary TV serial starring Al Bundy the great!).
Lets get back to the present where this special group does not exist, since no one has heard anything from the band for many years. I don’t think that we will ever hear something new from the group since I think that they came from another star system just to offer us this
perfect and weird album… “Why” did you have to go so early?
by
George Kouvelis
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