{"id":12068,"date":"2016-10-16T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T10:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powerofmetal.dk\/?p=12068"},"modified":"2016-10-16T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T10:02:10","slug":"riverside-eye-of-the-soundscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/reviews\/riverside-eye-of-the-soundscape","title":{"rendered":"Riverside \u2013 Eye of the Soundscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEye of the Soundscape\u201d is a homage to the late Piotr Grudzi\u0144ski, who passed away February 21<sup>st<\/sup> 2016 and threw <strong>Riverside<\/strong> into bewilderment and despair\u2026 would the be band continue after the tragic loss of their guitarist, would they be able to soldier on or would this be the end?<\/p>\n<p>The trio of Mariusz Duda, Piotr Kozieradzki, Micha\u0142 \u0141apaj has thankfully decided to carry on, as a trio, and the first sign of life after Piotr\u2019s passing is an album that has very little to do with their past albums at first glance.<\/p>\n<p>On surface this has more in common with Mariusz\u2019 solo project Lunatic Soul with its introvert, ambient and electronic soundscapes. But looking deeper into the album you\u2019ll discover that it only features four new compositions \u2013 \u201cWhere the River Flows\u201d, \u201cShine\u201d, Sleepwalkers\u201d and \u201cEye of the Soundscape\u201d \u2013 two new remixes of \u201cRapid Eye Movement\u201d and \u201cRainbow Trip\u201d, as well as the Night Sessions from \u201cShrine of New Generation Slaves\u201d and the Day Session tracks from \u201cLove, Fear and the Time Machine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The ambient side of <strong>Riverside<\/strong> has always been a part of their sound, mostly hidden away on bonus discs, as the little extra for the devoted fans, who have to have it all, even if it means buying the limited editions. Now they\u2019ve compiled all of the songs on this tribute to Grudzi\u0144ski and it really puts the songs into perspective and feels like a whole.<\/p>\n<p>They are closing a chapter with this release, and have released a haunting and melancholic instrumental album that surely isn\u2019t what everyone would have expected from <strong>Riverside<\/strong> at this point of their career. It\u2019ll be really interesting to hear where they are going next, now that this is out of the system.<\/p>\n<p>I like this album, mostly because of its significance, but also because it features Piotr Grudzi\u0144ski\u2019s masterful and soulful guitar playing one last time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RIVERSIDE -  Where The River Flows (Album Track)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tBTZJLXOptM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Tracklist:<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Disc 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Where the River Flows (10:53)<\/li>\n<li>Shine (4:09)<\/li>\n<li>Rapid Eye Movement (2016 Mix) (12:40)<\/li>\n<li>Night Sessions \u2013 Part One (10:40)<\/li>\n<li>Night Sessions \u2013 Part Two (11:35)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Disc 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sleepwalkers (7:19)<\/li>\n<li>Rainbow Trip (2016 Mix) (6:19)<\/li>\n<li>Heavenland (4:59)<\/li>\n<li>Return (6:50)<\/li>\n<li>Aether (8:43)<\/li>\n<li>Machines (3:53)<\/li>\n<li>Promise (2:44)<\/li>\n<li>Eye of the Soundscape (11:30)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Playing Time: <\/strong>49:58 + 52:17<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release date:<\/strong> October 21, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Label:<\/strong> InsideOut Music<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riversideband.pl\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.riversideband.pl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\u201cEye of the Soundscape\u201d is a homage to the late Piotr Grudzi\u0144ski, who passed away February 21st 2016 and threw Riverside into bewilderment and despair\u2026 would the be band continue after the tragic loss of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/reviews\/riverside-eye-of-the-soundscape\" title=\"Riverside \u2013 Eye of the Soundscape\">[Read \u00bb]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":12069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oct_exclude_from_cache":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[134,170,60,429,1620],"class_list":{"0":"post-12068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews","8":"tag-ambient","9":"tag-electronic","10":"tag-instrumental","11":"tag-riverside","12":"tag-riverside-eye-of-the-soundscape"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12074,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068\/revisions\/12074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}