Newtopia

Pale Acute Moon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 1, 2003)
• Original Release Date: January 1, 1985
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Musea
• ASIN: B0000CDVNO
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,343,066 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Collage

2. Chapter One - Newtopia

3. Chapter Two - The End Of The Party (I. Part One)

4. Chapter Three - Time Trip

5. Refrain - The End Of The Party (II. Part Two)

6. Chapter Four - After Moon

7. Chapter Five - Impression

8. Chapter Six - Daybreak

9. Coda

10. In A Forest With A View

11. Beelzebub

12. Silent-Room For Yourself

13. Baby

14. Room

15. Decembre

16. Silver Films

17. Ten Years Ago

Editorial Reviews

If the sophisticated music's Eighties have been dominated by the neo Progressive era, they also saw the full expansion of the Japanese symphonic Progressive rock movement, with local bands such as GERARD, OUTER LIMITS, DEJA VU or PAGEANT. PALE ACUTE MOON was one of them, and probably amongst the best. Keyboards player Motoi SEMBA's band recorded an unique album in 1985 called "Newtopia". This masterpiece of refinement and formal perfection is now reissued by Musea with as a bonus, various tracks taken from the solo career of the leader, who was then TERU’S SYMPHONIA’s keyboards player. Not to be missed !

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars In the vein of"The Enid": 3 star and 1/2 is righter, February 11, 2003

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Lethe "lor68" (Milan, Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Newtopia (Audio CD)

This work is eponymous for the best key's job in the ensemble of "Teru's symphonia"; by means of this album Motoi Semba introduces her romantic keyboard style, often in the vein of "The ENID".That is a long suite of lush orchestral rock compositions,driven from Romantic-era classical music oriented ("Renaissance" mid-period)rightly to the style of "The ENID";nevertheless is quite well enriched also with a lot of keyboards monophonic solos and a melodic piano as well ...in the opposite the guitar work is increasing its mood, during its progressive excursion, as long as the guitarist pitches his melodic fills completely. Of course this album doesn't reach the grandeur of for example Mugen's "Sinfonia della luna" or Teru's symphonia's "Fable of the seven Pillows...",expecially from the point of view of its production and execution as well, but some music parts more "Silvyan" oriented are not bad !!
RECOMMENDED EVEN THOUGH NOT COMPLETELY ESSENTIAL, BEFORE THIS ONE BUY TERU'S SYMPHONIA"Fable of the seven pillows"and "MUGEN'S "Sinfonia della luna"