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Alphomega

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Arthur Ellis is an unusual name for a band; the group takes its name from the last official publicly employed executioner in the country of Canada. With that in mind, lets talk about the new CD, Alphomega. It is not death metal or any kind of heavy sounding music, and its not progressive rock. So what is it? In my opinion, the best way to describe this music is eighties new wave music with a splash of art rock. At times it reminds me of Devo and the B-52's. Maybe it's the lyrics, which are very entertaining and witty. Overall, the music is very well crafted and the production and recording are average. The band is made up of songwriters Peter Fisera, - keyboards,& Shannon Hallett, vocals,;with bass - Richard Fordham, guitar - Dave Shannon and on the drums - Brad Mitchell. The CD has eight tracks of what I describe as unconventional music. The group draws it's influences from a range of classic rock, to pop and art rock. The band has a lot of fun with their music and it comes out when you listen to the CD.

'Very well played songs, clever fun lyrics make this a wonderful find'
~Ron for ProgNaut.com [November 11th, 2001]

AE2K brings the 80's new wave stylings with a art rock touch, almost aggressive at times but quite danceable too!

Shannon reminds me of the female singer from Sonic Youth (sorry my mind went blank) and Toyah - very quirky and powerful.

The guitars and keyboards are the highlight for me as keyboardist Fish (Peter) uses in ths style a hammond M-3, which I don't recall any new wave or art rock band using and Dave has what I call the aggressive rock & prog sound that I'd like to see explored more.
- also from Prognaut

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