Progressive Rock

13 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Progressive Rock, ROCK: Modern Rock



Details:
This is the second album from the of San Francisco band, Burgess Shale. It features 13 songs that really don't reflect any specific genre. The hope was to provide something for everybody like The White Album. All songs, however, feature cool melodies, complex harmonies, excessive guitar tracks and observant literate lyrics.

In addition, the songs may not reflect the typical structure of a customary pop song. The music is not boring or repetitive. It's definitely not retro rock. If you want to listen to Franz Ferdinand or The Killers, we encourage you not to buy this album. There are plenty of hooks, verses and choruses, but they don't hit you over the head ad nauseum. We hope that each time you listen to a song, you will hear a little more of the music and the lyrics.

The album was recorded and produced by James Boblak at his ArtSpoke Studio in Albany, California. James spent many years in Los Angeles as house engineer for Studio 56 and has worked with various pretty well known artists. This second album also enlisted the talents of some pretty good studio drummers, most notably Mick Berry, who has published "The Drummer's Bible," and Charles Waltmire. We were also lucky to have Gia Brazil add some gorgeous soprano harmonies to the songs.

Finally, for those of you who are new to the band, the band's name comes from a 500 million year old fossil site in the Canadian Rockies. Many of the animals found in the fossil site never evolved into anything and disappeared permanently. There is some perfect poetic irony here. There are a number of people who appear in the media that will invariably suffer the same fate. So Burgess Shale means that there is always hope.