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Title: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Jarle on December 25, 2014, 06:48:36 AM
I guess this is a little proggy.

Battles
W/M - Jarle
Guitars, keyboard(Garageband piano and organ), voices, bass and drums - Jarle

The voices in my head
will not let me rest.
They're hunting me down.

The images I've seen
never know when they come.
I'm holding my breath.

Travel through night and day
holding the thoughts away.
It's searching for me.

Fighting the battles inside
caused by the battle outside.
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Farrell Jackson on December 25, 2014, 07:07:49 AM
A very cool bit of prog rock for this Christmas morning listen Jarle! I like the change at 1:50, nice! I also hear a little  psychedelia in there as well.

Farrell
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Bluesberry on December 25, 2014, 08:18:17 AM
I love your Prog excursions Jarle.  This is pure, sweet, heavenly music, the very best kind of Prog, epic and I love the movement in those bridge sections, utterly, yes, totally, yes even, howlingly good.  Its old-school prog like we haven't heard in some time (well, since your last perhaps), and I love it.  Well done, I will listen to this a lot over the holiday season.......back in for another listen right now.........I can't wait to get this one blasting out of the good speakers........after breakfast maybe.........
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Redler on December 25, 2014, 08:35:25 AM
This is top class prog rock, Jarle! Some excellent tempo changes and brilliant job on the guitars, as well! Is there anything you can't do :) . I take my hat off!
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Gnasty on December 25, 2014, 03:28:25 PM


Wow! Like BB says it`s just epic. An epic journey! I love it Mr. Prog master!
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: cuthbert on December 25, 2014, 04:24:52 PM
Yup, I'm hearing bits of psychedelia in here as well as the prog (and man, those time signatures are just amazing). Super full and clean production and performance - epic is the right word!
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: fenderbender on December 25, 2014, 05:13:31 PM
This is feckin' great Jarle
love the changes in tempo and -that drumming -Wow!!!
Great bass playing as well  8) 8) 8)
A brilliant recording


Tommy
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Groundy on December 25, 2014, 11:30:40 PM
Nice one Jarle, great all round playing......Alex
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Hook on December 26, 2014, 05:01:19 AM
That was a stunner my brother! What a spectacular track, those tight guitar licks and the fecking drumming is so tight and precise. It's amazingly impressive and just super cool!
Rock on!
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Mike_S on December 26, 2014, 12:43:06 PM
Prog is good!

Very interesting, keeps your attention in the best prog traditions. Never sure what is going to happen next, but it still works as a very listenable piece. Enjoyed a lot.
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: T.C. Elliott on December 27, 2014, 10:30:46 AM
Just the way I like my prog. In bite sized chunks. I enjoyed listening to the instruments in the right field. They way the support the melody in the guitar/melody in the left field. It is a well arranged song. The great thing is this could lead into all sorts of other pieces or it can stand quite firmly on its own and sound good.
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: SwanSong on December 27, 2014, 03:44:01 PM
HI JARLE  well done great rock score and I agree with Farrell
totally different sound but a enjoyable one for sure . bump
and cheers NEIL .!
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: SE on January 01, 2015, 08:13:35 AM
Wow stand back in admiration,  so many parts and so well played proggytastic  stuff!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Geir on January 02, 2015, 05:07:22 AM
Excellent work brother !!

Love the complexity in both the melodic riffs and the rhythm and how its all glued together with a constant beat !

Progalicious !

Reminds me a bit of Yes in places !
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Oldrottenhead on January 02, 2015, 06:00:48 AM
glad your brother bumped this. excellent stuff jarle. like a lost sixties prog classic. mad as a box of frogs i love it.
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: bruno on January 02, 2015, 06:01:46 AM
Progtastic - definite shades of Yes here, and Steve Howe's guitar lines. Super track.
B
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Ella on January 02, 2015, 01:09:18 PM
I really like this! This rhythm and those drums! And that psychedelic feeling. When I was young I listened this kind of music a lot.( Like Sparks). Great playing and singing!
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: ODH on January 20, 2015, 08:45:14 AM
I've only just heard this.  On the Okay to Cover jukebox.

This is brilliant, right up my alleyway

Blimey.
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: andy casson on January 20, 2015, 01:15:07 PM
Crikey Jarle- brilliant song... I would have no idea where to start with writing/recording so many parts/tempos - fantastic listen.Bravo fella
Andy
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Speed Demon on January 20, 2015, 05:23:27 PM
Excellent!

Reminds me of Yes and of John McGlaughlin and The Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Jarle, you rock!
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Vanncad on January 20, 2015, 06:30:36 PM
Awesome!
A three-ring circus of mad timing here Jarle!

You are a talented dude for sure!
Sounds great!
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Jarle on January 21, 2015, 09:18:02 AM
Thank you for taking time to listen and comment, it's really apreciated.
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Ferryman_1957 on January 21, 2015, 12:24:47 PM
I guess this is very proggy indeed, and I guess I like it a lot. Love the opening guitar riff with the counterpoint keyboard, very clever and draws you right in immediately. Love what you do with the drums here, they really drive music like this, a problem I always have when I try to do proggy stuff because I have to program drums. Lots of great changes and it all hangs together really well, a great arrangement. A very nice belated Christmas present.

One thing you might want to consider - I am getting a lot of high end frequencies which make it hard for me to pick out the vox in particular and make it sound a bit harsh with the volume up. But that's because I have these very good hearing aids and am listening through monitors, so it could be just me that's picking that up. Doesn't detract from a great song and fantastic musicianship though, loved this one.
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Glenn Mitchell on January 22, 2015, 10:26:05 AM
A really nice hook on this. Love Prog.
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: kenny mac on January 22, 2015, 06:12:35 PM
Great prog tune jarle,the bass and drums remind me of Rush  .
Cool tune my friend.
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Tangled Wires on January 23, 2015, 05:05:38 PM
I saw that Nick had posted up a tribute cover of this so wanted to indulge myself in this before nipping over to check out his version

There seems an awful long crammed into a three minute song, the way you have pieced all of this together is remarkable, and I love the organised chaos of the arrangement with every section managing to flow beautifully into the next.

I hear songs in my head all the time like this, but once those thoughts reach my hands it all goes to pot...would love a little piece of your talent in this respect!

Big, big song!
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Flash Harry on January 28, 2015, 01:52:43 PM
Nick brought me to this.

Fantastic  Jarle, it's a great great track. I'm sorry I missed it first time round, glad I picked it up now.
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: The Gobi Desert Canoe Club on February 02, 2015, 07:58:05 AM
A little proggy? Sorry I'm late on this gem but glad I got there in the end. Excellent.  Willie
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: Groundy on December 24, 2015, 11:21:59 PM
OTD Bump..... back for more.....
Nice one Jarle, And a Merry Christmas to you and yours....

Alex
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: bruno on December 25, 2015, 05:37:04 AM
Great bump. Progtastic Jarle.
B
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: leighelse on December 25, 2015, 05:24:33 PM
I worshipped the full pantheon of Prog in the seventies: Genesis, Yes, King Crimson in particular. This is a well-executed track; the instrumentation takes me back to my Prog roots. I like the timing changes especially, and the fills - the fills are amazing, perfectly in keeping with the genre.

I was a little disappointed when it ended, but only because I'd have liked it to keep rolling for a complete album side a la Supper's Ready or Close to the Edge. Sigh.

Time to listen to it again.

::Leigh
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: ODH on October 18, 2017, 01:06:25 PM
This shuffled onto my stereo in the car on the way home from work this evening. It's just a brilliant piece.
Title: Re: Battles - a Jarle original
Post by: guitarron on October 18, 2017, 03:38:35 PM
wow=love how all the parts fit
well done