World Through My Eyes

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World Through My Eyes
Studio album from RPWL

Publication
(s)

January 24, 2005

Label (s) Tempus Fugit

InsideOut Music

Format (s)

CD, SACD

Title (number)

10

running time

70:22

occupation
  • Yogi Lang
  • Karlheinz Wallner
  • Stephan Ebner
  • Manfred Mueller

production

Yogi Lang

Studio (s)

Farmlands
Mark Anderton Composing Company
6T4K
Sound Stream Studios

chronology
Stock
(2003) 		World Through My Eyes The RPWL Experience
(2008)

World Through My Eyes is the fourth studio album by the German art rock band RPWL . It was released in 2005 by Tempus Fugit and InsideOut Music .

Creation and publication

After a two-year break and line-up (Andreas Wernthaler and Phil Paul Rissettio left the band, Manfred Müller became a new member) RPWL recorded a new album in Germany, Austria, England and India. A number of guest musicians, including Ray Wilson and an Indian choir, took part. World Through My Eyes was also released in a surround version and with a bonus track on SACD .

Title list and style

  1. Sleep - 7:42
  2. Start the Fire - 4:43
  3. Everything Was Not Enough - 8:43
  4. Roses - 6:36
  5. 3 Lights - 8:18
  6. Sea-Nature - 8:12
  7. Day on My Pillow - 4:18
  8. World Through My Eyes - 10:10
  9. Wasted Land - 4:44
  10. Bound to Reach the End - 6:56
Bonus title
  2. New Stars Are Born - 7:00 am

RPWL play influenced art rock with catchy melodies on the album by Pink Floyd , Genesis and The Beatles . Some oriental sounds and electronic effects are used.

reception

The press reacted mostly positively to the album. On the baby blue pages , some lengths are criticized, otherwise Thomas Kohlruß finds "hardly any points of criticism", and Christian Rode considers World Through My Eyes to be "an excellent introduction to the band's now quite diverse sound cosmos". On metal.de is praised also: "Soft, warm sound envelops the beautiful, vast soundscapes. Varied synth and guitar effects combine to create a gently driving work of art for connoisseurs that hovers space and timeless between sky and galaxy. "For Captain Chaos of Vampster , the album is" great cinema, maybe not perfect, but all the more down-to-earth and intense. " . The eclipsed magazine included World Through My Eyes in its list of the 150 most important prog albums.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Baby Blue Prog Reviews: RPWL: World Through My Eyes , Baby Blue Pages , accessed on November 24, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Captain Chaos: RPWL: World Through My Eyes , Vampster , accessed November 24, 2012.
  3. ^ RPWL - World Through My Eyes , metal.de , accessed on November 24, 2012.
  4. ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 30.