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Original first press

Edenbridge debut album was hailed by both critics and fans and it featured some timeless, beautiful music! The follow-up ‘Arcana’ takes up where the debut had left. And that is good. As there are only very few highlights in the Prog-genre at the moment, it was about time that mainman Lanvall and his crew showed everybody how to do it! Edenrbridge is a formation that appeals to hardcore-proggies like Zero Hour as well as velvet-rockers (like Ten) and friends of Nightwish. Their music is neither too soft nor too technical, but always with dreamy melody-lines. Something that is further pursued on ‘Arcana’. More praise to front-lady and feast for the eyes Sabine Edelsbacher, who has further improved. Her art sounds even more variable, even more seducing in the calm passages and more powerful than ever in the heavier sections. Her soprano also has gained more charisma. There sure will be some comparisons to Nightwish, because faster tracks like ‘Starlight Reverie’ or ‘Color My Skin’ are really going into the Finns’ direction, but still you can easily keep the two bands apart. The most dramatic and in my opinion best song in a series of brilliant compositions is the mini-drama ‘Arcana’, which closes off this grandiose album with its almost ten minutes. This opus builds up like a dream! And again Sabine in top form, a grandiose performance! You just have to get this one!

Track listing:
1. Ascending
2. Starlight Reverie
3. The Palace
4. A Moment Of Time
5. Fly On A Rainbow Dream
6. Color My Sky
7. The Whisper Of The Ages
8. Into The Light
9. Suspiria
10. Winter Winds
11. Arcana