Magellan-Hour of Restoration & Impending Ascension re-release!

[Rufus]

Leonardo-The Absolute Man?

That's the one! Labrie's vocals on this are top drawer!

[JKL2000]

^^ That's pretty good as I recall.

[jgprogbear]

So sorry to hear about Wayne. Those Explorer's Club discs of Trent's were also pretty good. I believe Steve Howe and Steve Walsh were on one or both of them.

[Rand Kelly]

Currently,Trent is heavily involved with Chicago and Robert Lamm. Eventually I would not be surprised to see an expanded collaboration in the future.

[SteveSly]

I listened to "Impending Ascension" today. Still a great album, really. It's a shame Magellan never did anything as a live outfit; with a real live rhythm section propelling things along, most of these songs would have cooked.

I don't remember the exact circumstances, but at one point they were trying to put something live together as there were some very limited talks with ProgDay. Nothing ever came of it though.

[No Pride]

Impending Ascension is probably their best despite the drum machine. There's a lot of great melodies and chord progressions in "Estadium Nacional" and "Waterfront Weirdos." I've never been crazy about Trent's vocals, but they're not intolerable and some of his writing is really good. I like some of the tracks on "Test of Wills" too (and a real drummer certainly helped that one), but I got off the bus after "One Hundred Year Flood;" didn't really like any of it. Magellan was sort of a guilty pleasure of mine for a while; something I wouldn't want to play for any of my friends but enjoyed (at least in parts) in the privacy of headphones.

[Trane]

DT's Images & Words, Threshold's Wounded Land, and Magellan's Impending Ascension were the 3 albums that put me on the path to discover new prog music circa 1993.

Magna Carta are also re-releasing the debut and subsequent follow-up album of Shadow Gallery in august.The debut album features the epic Queen of the City of Ice! Good news indeed!

mmmhhh!!!... I was lucky enough to have already discovred AnglaDotenBerk by the time budduies told me about Magellan, Shadow Gallery, Cairo and dream Theatre, and luckily so, because if it had been the other way around, I'd probably have not cared to find out about the swedish prog revival, because I was totally unimpressed with those US bands.

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I bought Hour of Restoration at a record store on cassette!

I had it on cassette, too. Might be the last one I ever bought. I had Impending Ascension on CD, but I saw the HoR tape and went for it.

I also found one of these used on cassette for like a buck, but then found it on CD (used). I still have the cassette somewhere...

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was the last cassette I bought since I already had CDs at that point. It was all the store had.

Yeah I originally got the cassette of Hour of Restoration for like $3 from Ranjit.

Then you have vinyl nazis who claimed that the CD killed (or attempted to) the vinyl ... Actually the pre-recorded cassette killed vinyl, and Cd killed the cassette.

[chef0069]

I loved Magellan, so sad to hear about Waynes death.

[ThomasKDye]

I got off the bus after "One Hundred Year Flood;"

I felt the same way about that album; it did nothing for me. However, there's some good stuff on "Impossible Figures." I put it on every now and again. I actually love "A World Groove," though I can imagine others here might not. I heard a lot of negative things about "Symphony for a Misanthrope" so I just never picked it up. Maybe I should put it back on my radar.

[gingernut]

Thumbs up from me for HoR - brilliant from start to finish. And I don't mind the programmed drums, nor do I hear anything to dislike about Trent's vocals. Impending Acs has a couple of weaker tracks but the 3 epics are, well epic! Spin them both regularly.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Impending Ascension is probably their best despite the drum machine. There's a lot of great melodies and chord progressions in "Estadium Nacional" and "Waterfront Weirdos." I've never been crazy about Trent's vocals, but they're not intolerable and some of his writing is really good. I like some of the tracks on "Test of Wills" too (and a real drummer certainly helped that one), but I got off the bus after [...]. Magellan was sort of a guilty pleasure of mine for a while; something I wouldn't want to play for any of my friends but enjoyed

Impending and Test are reasonably OK, the rest of them not. Laughably pompous and campy mock-rock to begin with, but the only Magna Carta releases I ever cared for.