Overground Music [Import]

After Crying | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 12, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Studio Kft
• ASIN: B00000JASW
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #441,889 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #99 in Music > World Music > Europe > Eastern Europe > Hungary

Track Listings

1. European Things (Hommage à Frank Zappa)

2. Don't Betray Me

3. Confess Your Beauty

4. Madrigal Love Part One

5. ...To Black...

6. Madrigal Love PartTwo (Over Every Sea)

7. Madrigal Love PartFree

8. Shining (...To the Powers of Fairyland)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a debut!, December 6, 1999

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S. Peter - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Overground Music (Audio CD)

This is the first album of After Crying. (Well, the first, which is available... There were some previous demo releases). The songs on this album is in English. This is one of the best albums of the band. A++ The band is 13 years old, but European Things - Hommage a Frank Zappa is still performed on every concert. Zoltan Lengyel, a member of the band said: "Everyone loves Zappa" The most outstanding songs (public opinion) are European thing and Shining. The singer of Shining is Peter Pejtsik's wife, who has a beautiful voice. My personal favourite is To black. Confess your beauty is an excellent song too with a beautiful cello and piano solo in it. This is a superb album, I can recommend it to everyone, who likes chamber music and the classic style of A.C. If you like this album, you may also consider to buy Elso Evtized (First decade) and Megalazottak es Megszomoritottak (The Insulted and Injured)

4.0 out of 5 stars Original Modern Progressive, July 12, 2010

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Rik K (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Overground Music (Audio CD)

Hungary's After Crying is one of the very best and most essential of the "Modern Progressive" bands - and one of the very few which meet/exceed the high standards of the Prog greats of 35 years ago. Building on the foundation of their own distinctive modern rock style, AC blend influences like Zappa & Crimson, ELP-ish keyboards, sophisticated classical string/horn arrangements, and bits of Eastern European folk accents. This, their 1990 debut album, is primarily very solemn acoustic chamber music. Oddly though, a number of the songs also achieve cool, infectious grooves - without any use of rock drumming - but rather through the dynamic interplay of piano, bass and orchestral instruments. Recommended.

3.0 out of 5 stars Before blushing, March 8, 2010

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IRate - See all my reviews

This review is from: Overground Music (Audio CD)

3 1/2


Curiously compelling classically-inflected progressive rock will turn off fans of raw, lesser arranged methods, but if you get past hearing the intellectual need to impress (and awkward vocals) you will be treated to adventuresome arrangements with sound payoff.