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The Dream Captain
by Adrian Stone (Tony Kendrick)
Private publication, 1999
Contact via snail mail c/o Tony Kendrick; 55 Verlin St; Wakeman, OH 44889.
“Adrian Stone” is the pseudonym of Tony Kendrick, with help from his
brother Dylan Kendrick and friend Mel Holida on bass. The Dream
Captain hearkens back to the palmy days of the '70s, when big-sound
bands like King Crimson, Yes, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, as well as the
early Tangerine Dream, were hammering together electronic music and rock.
The combination of rock instrumentation of guitar, drums, bass, and
keyboards, combined with synthesizer and special effects, has persisted ever
since.
The Dream Captain captures that 70s prog-rock feeling with moody
guitar or keyboard melodies over synthesized thunder and ocean waves, or
ominous, hard-edged synth lines in parallel fifths. Some of it sounds like
the soundtrack for a video game; in fact, one track is titled “Myst,” after
the well-known pioneering virtual reality game. Most of the album is more
mood than rhythm, though in track 8, “Spell,” Kendrick manages to kick up
some neo-medieval, Goth-styled dance music. With track 9, “A Wizard’s
Trance,” he reaches back to the ‘60s era to give us a bit of Grateful
Dead-inspired psychedelia. The last track shows off Kendrick’s metal side,
with some wailing electric guitar solos over a more “traditional” rock band
accompaniment.
This album’s got a variety of styles on it, from sweet dreamy ambient to
fairly hard rock. For those of us who remember the days when rock broke out
of its simple formulas and began to explore longer forms, non-vocal
instrumentals, and electronic sound, this album will bring a note of
pleasant nostalgia.
Hannah M.G. Shapero
11/16/02
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