Timescape

KenZiner | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1998)
• Original Release Date: November 18, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Leviathan
• ASIN: B00000DDLR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #363,548 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Progressive Neo-Classical Heavy Metal Band!, December 24, 1999

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Nick Crowson (Stamford, Lincs Great Britain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Timescape (Audio CD)

A band / project centered around the prodigious talents of 24 year old Finnish guitarist Jarno Keskinen, who plays all guitars, bass & keyboard on this album. Although he wrote the music, the lyrics and melodies were written by the producer (and guitar god) David T. Chastain.

Unsurpingly the band does therefore retain a strong Chastian influence to their Symphony X style songs.

The vocalist Stephen Fredrick sounds reminiscent of Graham Bonnet, and combined with some 80's style riffs does make the music sound surprisingly dated at times.

As a guitarist, Jarno is a solid rhythm player with a surprisingly mature soloing style (competently structured solos rather than fretboard histrionics). However, I can't help thinking how impressive guys like Malmsteen, Becker & Gilbert were at a younger age!

A solid enough debut that many bands would be proud of and certainly a guitarist to watch out for in the future.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Suprise Suprise, July 31, 2000

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J. Goedsir "TCool" (Everwhere) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Timescape (Audio CD)

A good debut from this guitar dude Jarno. He can certainly play and is very structured in style-would have liked to here him let loose a little more.This guy certainly practiced all his scales.

A very clasically inspired release - Hard to catergorise, sounds a little like stratovarius but with a stronger influence towards a more dominent classical sound and structures

I would have given this 5 stars but I don't like the last 2 songs. Mr Chastain who wrote the lyrics, seems to have been beat up emotionally over the years as you can here in some of the songs-Dreamer is a good example of this, but in saying that it's a damm good song. I'd have to say that the first 8 songs are good.

If you want to here a good guitarist, some very good songs, a very good vocal performance(this guy apparently lost his voice after recording this album),then get this CD.

3.0 out of 5 stars Very good at what it does but beware of what your getting, March 18, 2009

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Paul Lawrence "'EJL'" (Australia) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Timescape (Audio CD)

David Chastains' fingerprints are all over this 90's release from Finnish guitar dude Jarno Keskinen. The music contained on this disc is very much driven by the high speed guitar constructs of this fellow and he really does know his way around a fretboard. The solos are often tasty and at times even the riffs sound like runs up and down the neck of his axe.

As has been noted by other reviewers, vocalist Stephen Fredrick does have a touch of Graham Bonnet about him with a certain raspy nature to his contribution. Lyrically the album is quite generalist which is actually a good thing however there is a leaning towards gothic twinges throughout.

Problems with this release come in the way it feels like a project, not an organic thing. Also too many of the songs are driven by dainty high speed keyboards which were also played by Keskinen so that they sound like guitar anyway. Now, Yngwie and Jens Johansson trading licks I loved but here it just doesn't work, the arrangements really need to have an injection of beef. Though admittedly the opening track Future Signs is pretty cool and there is some heft to track seven, Walking In The Rain.

I enjoyed this album enough to buy his other disc that I knew about at the time and I've gotten some use out of a number of the tunes. But the point of my review is to warn you that you are getting decidedly second tier Scandinavian guitar god high pitched - little bottom end - speed metal with inevitable goth twinges. If this sounds like you, then scoop up both this and The Prophecies cheaply and you'll get a couple of serviceable albums.