BRIGHTEYE BRISON - BELIEVERS & DECEIVERS
Written by Tonny Larsen, www.progplanet.com

Finally, the new and third outing from brilliant Brighteye Brison, still using vintage, analogue instruments! And to good effect I might add !! Ive listened to this fabulous album, several times now and it grows on me at every spin! Not only do they use vintage instruments, they deliver extremely perfect vintage music by the mega-load!! With excellent multi layered vocals, well composed songs, blending and delivering music from inspirational sources such as: Gentle Giant, Hackett, Van Der Graaf G, Genesis and little hints to Gryphon, to name a few! The superlative “Hat-trick”comes to mind, as I find these incredible musicians, so excellent on this their third album!! I loved their former album (read review elsewhere) but this one really tops that experience, it might be one of the greatest progalbums of this year, so far!? First of all, this album will serve you better played loud!!! Ok, track run-down: “Pointless living” starting out with slap bass lines, growing into a somewhat (if you can imagine that) blend of Gryphon and high wired, hard edged Yes !? No ? Well just listen!! “After The Storm” vintage prog? You bet your bank account!! This track delivers breaks, time signatures and themes enough to cover a whole album, these guys are brilliant! And..I must mention the superb guitarsolo!! “The Harvest” 20:27 minutes of sheer symphonic prog bliss!! Church organ de luxe begins this excellent epic fare. This track holds everything you could imagine in progmusic!! The grand event on this fine album, are without doubt exactly that: “The Grand Event” clocking in at some wonderful 34:44 minutes, filled to the brim with superb symphonic/prog like “they used to make ém” a musical masterstroke from these great swedes: Linus Kåse:Keyboards, Saxophones, vocals & percussion/ Johan Öijen: Guitars/ Kristofer Eng: Bass, taurus pedals, theremin, mandolin & vocals/ Erik Hammerström: Drums/ Per Hallman: Keyboards, vocals, acoustic guitar. So thumbs up, hat´s off, full rating and WOW!! Go get it!! P.s Did I mention, this album also holds some amazing vocal/chorus arrangements. Another great release from the fine people of Progress Records!! 

Rating: 6/6

Tony Larsen - Prog Planet