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About as "proggy" as progressive rock gets, Chronicles I is a keyboard satiated compilation from Germany's Eloy, and is a sparkling album from beginning to end. With barely any vocals at all, frontmen Frank Borneman on guitar and Michael Gerlach on synthesizer create atmosphere through sheer electronic mastery on each and every track. Pure keyboard work, at times uninterrupted for minutes, sets the precedent for some dazzling symphonic rock with a bite. The clarity and briskness of the notes emanating from the synthesizers takes the listener by storm, while each cut contains it's own image in itself. The main reason for releasing this album was to give Eloy fans a collection of tracks with an improved sound, since many of their studio albums prior to 1986 suffer from poor production and low dynamics. The music here sounds brilliant, with "Mysterious Monolith '93" and "Silhouette '93" catapulting the crispness of the keyboards to the epicenter of the tracks. Representing their late-'70s and early-'80s era, with tracks from Ocean, Planets, Colours, Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes, and Time To Turn, this "best-of" spotlights the band in the most glorious portion of their career. While much of their music does contain lyrics, isolated here is their instrumental work, overloaded with clean, explosive energy. ~ Mike DeGagne
1993 compilation of the German prog rock outfit's finest tracks re-recorded. 10 tracks. Eloy Chronicles I Songs | 1. | Poseidons Creation | |
| 2. | Apocalypse, The | |
| 3. | Silhouette | |
| 4. | Mysterious Monolith | |
| 5. | Sphinx | |
| 6. | Illuminations | |
| 7. | End of an Odyssey | $1.87 | |
| 8. | Time to Turn | $0.99 | |
| 9. | Spirit in Chains | |
| 10. | Say It Is Really True | |
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Chronicles I Music Review Average Rating: (3 out of 5 stars)  Great songs but missing something of the originals
This is not a compilation of previous releases, rather Eloy went back to the studio and re-recorded from scratch some of their finest material from their classic progressive rock period of the 70's and 80's, but using 1990s production/technology. The choice of songs is excellent, but I'm afraid when I want to hear them, I don't listen to this CD anymore; I listen to the originals. Why? Well, part of the charm of classic progressive rock was the time period itself, with all its production limitations. Hearing perfectly lock-step, digitized samplers programmed by seasoned men looking back on the past is not as satisfying as hearing old analog equipment played by aspiring youngsters making a musical adventure no one has heard before. The remakes have a self-conscious quality that is distracting. The originals have an innocent sense of exploration. The drumming is particularly distracting because it is given a heavy-metal production (loud, reverbed) that I never heard during the 70's/early 80s and betrays the spirit of the times. Besides Jurgen Rosenthal is much better on the originals than the new drummer. If you really want to survey this band at its best period, spend the money to buy "Dawn," "Ocean," "Silent Cries..." and "Planets", not these remakes. By the way, Chronicles 2 is later material where the production differences are not so much an issue.
Submitted by Pablo (Napa Valley, USA)
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