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  • ♩ Bursting (2006)
Description

Bursting is the third album of The Journey: A World of Music Quatrology, a 4-CD set released in 2006 by Viktor Mastoridis.
Its genre can be described as Balkan World / Rock Fusion Music.
It contains 13 tracks: 7 songs and 6 instrumentals.
 The instrumentals are electric guitar based with overdrive/distortion.
The main feature of the album is the fusion of Balkan Folk and Western Rock music; including the transformation of odd-time signatures into Rock Grooves. 

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So, what's so new and interesting about playing Rock with odd-time signatures? Musicians have made numerous songs with uneven time-signatures. Why this album deserves to see the light of the day? Actually, the 'common' time-signature songs probably give weight to the album: People, Slushni me, Silence, even Prayer. These are songs with deeper meaning and thought. From the odd-time, the electric guitar instrumentals Stone Bridge (7/8) and the Pipes (9/8), together with the song All The time (11/8) make the Balkan Rock Fusion beat by clashing the smoothness of a rock composition with a bumpiness of their time-signatures. The result is more rock than Balkan album possessing a few interesting tunes.

Credits etc

Copyright: Viktor Mastoridis 2007
Guest musicians: Djanan Turan - vocals; John Hudson - piano; Martijn Heinzius - bass;

Bursting

 1. Aggressive
 2. Prayer
 3. Stone Bridge
 4. People
 5. All my Dreams
 6. The Pipes
 7. All the Time
 8. Silence
 9. Birth
10. Slushi me
11. Rainy Days
12. Man On The Bench
13. Give Me 5

Bursting: a Balkan Rock Fusion music album