SYMPOZION - Kundabuffer (2005)
Crimson Light? Why not? Or rather why yes? Cola Light is a tame rubbish, and music of Sympozion isn’t
tame for sure.
Bands, which inspire themselves with “colorful” King Crimson, are not my favourite kind of prog-rock.
They are often focused on a form, and forget, that it’s only a device and they produce sounds
pretending to be music.
Sympozion is mixing and combining. We have here lots of “Crimson” sounds, but it seems, that Gentle
Giant was an equally important inspiration. Add to it some jazz influence, Canterbury scene and we
have a set.
I really like the way this album was recorded and produced. Music is very light and gentle. Like lace. Or
delicately weaved cobweb of sounds, on such early morning, with drops of dew highlighted by a
sunshine, crossing through the fog. Oh how poetic comparisons I used. It really must an extraordinary
album, if I drove myself into comparisons, which I avoid. However it’s an exact impression that this
album made on me. It begins really like King Crimson from the first half of 80’s. Then music goes in
other ways, and our connections follow her – King Crimson, then King Crimson and Gentle Giant, Gentle
Giant, King Crimson and a bit of a delicate jazz, later jazz and something from Canterbury. But it can’t
be taken so literally, these are skeleton-key-words, direction-words. To place it on a musical map in
some way. And it’s beginning to show, that “Kundabuffer” isn’t a definite stylistically album, but
extraordinary and interesting one. Additionally it’s a debut. So ripe record. These young mans promise
themselves for the future.
Album is mostly instrumental and these few vocal parts, which you can find here are...
