I do have some mixed emotions about albums like “Story” because at first I get really surprised and amazed. This kind of guitar playing still gets my attention, if you know what I’m saying. I do pay attention to everything the shredder has to say and show. On the other side of the coin, by the fourth or fifth track depending on how the music is conducted I get bored and my eractions are to pull it out from the player. But somehow I do resist and insist track by track because I get so envolved with the shredding that even being bored I do have to pay close attention to the music. Well, I think many fans think as I do. In this album Terry Syrek knits track by track making them one own with his playing and shredding. The textures Terry Syrek made are too beautiful to be left behind and ignored. A track as “The End?” makes it impossible not to pay attention and think about all the amazing features there are in it. That’s the intrinsic beauty of instrumental albums. The artists have to tell a story with no singing words. Only the instrumentals. A very hard think to do especially when the album is a concept album that must have all the tracks linked somehow. “Story” does it with flying colors.
Syrek “Story” was independently released on December 21st, 2021.
Track Listing:
- Magic Lantern (Into The Woods)
- I Think It’s a Monster
- Balloon Ride over a Jigsaw Map
- I Got a Lightning Bug
- What the Owl Said
- Starcrowned
- The Perilous Flight From Castle Abathria
- Stange Machine
- Dandelion Sword
- Gnomus Maleficus (Tea with the Angry Gnome)
- Promenade Into the End
- The End?
- Home (Out of the Woods)
Watch “Balloon Ride over a Jigsaw Map” official video here:
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