Proghma-C – Bar-do Travel

Releasedate: 15-02-2010; Label: Mystic
By: Sabine van Gameren

This Polish formation started back in 2002. Their music is not the most easy to describe, but Tool is included in their influences and that might bring you a bit on track of what these guys do. “Bar-do Travel” is their debut album.

The band has a bit post rock influences, with their way of building up tensions, waiting for quite some time before any vocals come in, but they tend to stay on the doom atmospheres, giving space for clear sounds organized chaos. The band knows when to throw in some extremes on well timed moments. Aggressive vocals on the right times, bringing peace back with clean vocals. Those two make a good contrast. Guitars are not dominating in their sound. They are there, but all in good harmony with bass and drums. All instruments get their well deserved place and this makes the band interesting to listen to. Teamwork well done. If there should be a point to mention that could have been different is maybe the fact that sometimes it stays quite on the simple side. A bit of complex, attention whoring riffs might have spiced it all up and give the fans of more aggressive metal something to hold on too, when they get to hear. Jazz elements in the music do quite well but could have been switched of more into the other extreme.
The band is standing good on the road right now with “Bar-do Travel”. It is a very interesting album. If these guys explore the borders of their sounds and make it wider it will be something that even more people will find their soul in.

Line Up:
Piotr ’BOB’ Gibner – Vocals
Pawel ’SMAGA’ Smakulski – Guitar, Synth
Lukasz ’KUMAN’ Kumanski – Drums
Michal ’WASKI’ Gooretzky – Bass

Tracklist: 01. Kana 02. FO 03. Spiralling To Another 04. Spitted Out 05. Spitted Out [Out] 06. So Be-live 07. I can’t illuminate with You 08. Naan 09. Army Of Me [Björk cover]

Links:
Proghma-C MySpace