| Artist: | Show Yen |
| Title: | Show Yen |
| Label: | Musea FGBG 4406.AR |
| Length(s): | 56 minutes |
| Year(s) of release: | 2002 |
| Month of review: | [09/2003] |
| 1) | Intro | 1.28 |
| 2) | Reallusion | 4.16 |
| 3) | Parade | 2.21 |
| 4) | Lucifer's Child | 5.45 |
| 5) | Network Broken | 2.57 |
| 6) | Ominous Footsteps | 6.43 |
| 7) | Ran | 3.48 MP3 |
| 8) | Asels 1 | 2.06 |
| 9) | Asels 2 | 4.24 |
| 10) | Asels 3 | 0.58 |
| 11) | Asels 4 | 4.54 |
| 12) | Asels 5 | 3.46 |
| 13) | Move Up | 4.50 |
| 14) | Time And Space | 2.25 |
| 15) | Fu-Ga | 5.24 |
The Intro is still friendly enough, but with Reallusion we move into more freaky lands, although it starts with a bit of modern King Crimson and some nice jangling.
Parade is a rather happy sounding guitar track, with bouncy bass and nice enough drum rhythms. Lucifer's Child brings us Discipline era KC with Kashmir rhythm. Although the track never is exactly the same as a King Crimson track, it does come awfully close at times. Towards the end we get a guitar fest I could have done without.
Ominous Footsteps 2 is good, with some nice riffing, a certain build up of tension, sometimes reminiscent of Richard Pinhas (who is a Fripp fan, so we return to KC). Far more adventurous and experimental than other tracks on the album. Its follow up Ran returns to the freaky guitar stuff, although the drums would fit with the powertrio formula.
Asels 1 is a still classical guitar piece, to move into part 2 which opens far more hard edged, sort of King Crimsonesque rhythm guitar. As the track continues a more or less whining, lingering guitar is layered over the rhythm guitar. Towards the end we sink into a guitar solo. Asels 3 seems to be the overture to part 4, introducing the guitar theme on which part 4 builds. In itself a nice theme, but the rather happy jumpy approach doesn't entice much. The happiness dies down, moving towards gentle guitar music, which takes us into Asels 5 smoothly, developing a bit of bluesy tormentation on the way.
Move Up is happy, poppy and choppy. Yuck. Time And Space is a bit more serious, but still somewhat non committal.
Fu-ga starts, well, sort of a fuga, really. It opens rather nicely, but after the initial rumble turns into another guitar dominated track, and with that is rather uninteresting. Towards the end the bland melody is broken by a nice bridge, but you can only expect so much from a bridge. And that's not enough.