TEAM RNS PRESENTS

TITLE: Impossible Figures

RIPPER: Team RNS

192kbps - Progressive Rock
0hr 45min total- 65.2mb

RELEASE DATE: 2003-11-04
RIP DATE: 2003-10-14

01 Gorilla With A Pitchfork       1:24
02 Killer Of Hope                10:03

04 Late For Church                6:15
05 Confessor's Overture           2:24
06 Hymn For A Heathen             3:15

09 Feel The Cross                 6:36

With Impossible Figures the American
band Magellan presents its fifth studio
album featuring their original mix made of
hard guitars, driving rhythms and partly
bombastic keyboard arrangements. On
this foundation, the brothers Trent
and Wayne Gardner lay out a richness of
melodic refinements, including wind
instruments or the interpretation of
classic sounding music.

The brothers Gardner grew up in a
musical family (the father played
clarinet, the mother piano), and they
learnt to play the piano early in their
childhood. In the music lessons at
school, Trent learnt how to play the
clarinet, Wayne trumpet. Later on Trent
added the trombone, and Wayne guitar and
bass guitar. After they had played in a
few local groups, in 1985 the wish
emerged to found their own progressive
rock band which, for the time being,
should have been called Streamline.

In 1990, they decided to change the
band's name to Magellan and released
their debut work Hour of Restoration
which contained a worthwhile mix of old
and new progressive rock elements. This
fresh sound and the impressive ideas
raised a lot of attention within the
scene. The follow-up was the bombastic
Impending Ascension (1994), the sort of
jazzy Test of Wills (1997), and the
epic Hundred Year Flood (2002) on
which Trent overcame his brother Jack's
death, who died in the Vietnam war.

Apart from his band Magellan, Trent
Gardner played together with well-known
musicians such as James LaBrie (Dream
Theater), Steve Walsh (Kansas) or Tony
Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel), and
he is responsible for the project's
Explorer's Club and LEONARDO THE
ABSOLUTE MAN, featuring a host of well

With Impossible Figures, Magellan
achieve their goal to remain faithful
to their style and, on the other hand,
to process modern features of rock music.
Lovers of heavier sounds will enjoy
songs such as Late for Church or
Counterpoints, followers of long
tracks will get the right food with
Killer of Hope. Over and above that, the
brothers Gardner experiment with
classical elements, which is
impressingly demonstrated by the piece
Bach 16. Impossible Figures will be
released on InsideOutMusic on November
4th, 2003. The album will be available
in a normal edition as well as a
special edition including a bonus