Atlantropa Project - Atlantropa Project

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2017
Time: 78:54
Size: 182,9 MB
Label: Progressive Promotion
Styles: Progressive Rock/Crossover Prog
Art: Full

Tracks Listing:
 1. A Continent Of Joy - 2:42
 2. The Great Maker - 5:53
 3. New Sky - Part I - The Plan - 3:25
 4. New Sky - Part II - The Bridge - 0:58
 5. New Sky - Part III - Atlantropa - 2:52
 6. Now Is Always Past - 1:31
 7. Time To Bid Goodbye - Part I - A Key For Peace - 3:02
 8. Time To Bid Goodbye - Part II - Unknown Waters - 1:44
 9. Time To Bid Goodbye - Part III - Last Goodbye - 2:40
10. They Want To Steal The Ocean - 6:56
11. Thinking Further Than A Generation's Life - 1:20
12. Gotta Stem The Greedy Water - 4:51
13. At The Mercy Of Progress - 1:41
14. Walk Across The Sea - 6:17
15. Mare Nostrum Dream - 3:06
16. To Understand What Uunderstanding Means - 1:06
17. When We All Speak Atlantropan - 9:00
18. It`s Time For New Dreams - 1:33
19. Dream My Dream - 6:57
20. Star Atlantropa - Part I - Look To The West - 3:05
21. Star Atlantropa - Part II - We Still Have A Lot To Learn - 5:02
22. Star Atlantropa - Part III - Shining Star - 1:44
23. Reprise - 1:13

The ambitious concept album can be hit or miss and the misses can often sink without a trace. It’s a risk because what is your passion may not necessarily be someone else’s.
Atlantropa Project is the sophisticated, creative outcome of a group of ambitious and experienced musicians to musically explore and honour a great, almost forgotten idea of humanity. German engineer Hermann Sörgel’s plan was to build a huge dam, dry the Mediterranean, obtain new land, unite Africa and Europe and create peace.
To be fair, his plan is no more difficult than the idea of this concept piece but this brilliantly creative group of like minded artists have just about pulled it off. It is a richly rewarding and immersive concept album with a dynamism rarely found these days. The songs have a creativeness and virtuosity that just about overcomes the bloated length of this release.
You cannot listen to this in any other way than in one sitting where the whole story and soundtrack comes together like those great adventure films that graced the silver screen, King Solomon’s Mines and the like, but, ultimately, for this listener, the ambition just outstrips the reality.

Atlantropa Project