MARC PATTISON: Awaken The Dragon

Marc Pattison

Awaken The Dragon

© 2005 Marc Pattison (634479121012)

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This is instrumental guitar rock with Electronica

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This CD was recorded around 2000-2001 and has been remixed and remastered to bring it up to date. It is a collection of 13 songs that were part of my early experiments of mixing rock and electronica.

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  • Marc Pattison - Awaken The Dragon
    author: Mikolaj Furmankiewicz

    The next item in Mr. Pattison's solo discography and we can ask ourselves if he decided to change his musical direction or not? After reading my previous reviews on American's music, the answer should be easy to guess. To be formally correct, I remember to write that Marc Pattison plays all the guitars and bass guitar next to his court drummer Bud Salvetti, however here is also a special guest famous for Death, Testament, Sadus or the Sebastian Bach band - a bass virtuoso Steve DiGiorgio on "Planet Number 9". Obviously, there can appear an accusation that Marc recurs on his releases, but he only does what's best at and does it professionally. I don't mind that "Awaken The Dragon" is the next flurry of digital tones. Much more important fact is that here are shredding typhoons like "Crash And Burn", typically highway tracks like "Guitropolis" and Marty Friedman-esque cuts like "Awaken The Dragon". Yeah, the latter one is very evocative and Asian-coloured what makes it the top composition on the album. I can't avoid Ludwig van Beethoven's "1/5 of Beethoven's Fifth" and mention its majestic performance with its orchestral dignity preserved. There are many words to describe Mr. Pattison's output: eccentric, twanging, varied, joyful, heavy, catchy, accessible, amusing and instrumentally lush at last. In my humble opinion, Marc consistently and effortlessly gets ahead to his and our advantage. To help matters further, please check the stuff for yourself, haha.

  • A fresh sound
    author: Rory Joscelyne

    This is the first CD I have purchased from Marc Pattison after listening to his works from this site, which sounded pretty good although mared by only being short tasters (Which is acceptable considering the illegal downloads problems going round). After purchasing this CD, I gave it a whirl and got a better understanding of the music style in general. Those familiar with the Video Games industry, as I am, will doubtlessly have recollections of classics that no doubt had some influence on the music in this record. SpaceJam had a very Toejam and Earl feel to it, and the overall music style is definately a great comparison to some of the best works of SEGA's stellar composers. That's not to say Marc Pattison's music is only good for old time throwbacks, indeed the tracks are far from copies. As much as the inspiration shines through it is clear to me that Pattison has taken them and added a special something uniquely his own. The amazing guitar work and great techno backtracks certainly push his technical abilities further afield than alot of his possible competitors, that would be if he had any. Marc Pattison has seized an oppertunity to create unique and original artworks based on mixing the two most neglected, yet most inspirational music styles - Techno and Guitar-heavy Rock. Some of his best work comes from adding another slant of music into his work however. SpaceJam (One of my favourites) opens up with a massivley funky feeling, it's the type of guitar music you could see yourself dancing or air guitaring with - a hard combination to gel. One either air-guitars or dances, and it's a fantastic achievement that finally makes you want to do both at once. My only considerations for maybe improving this project would be an emphasis of trying to keep the power of guitars and subtlety of techno but maybe try and play them through each other, sometimes the guitars overpower the techno too much, and sometimes that techno doesn't bite as hard as the guitars do. If both could blend with each other more substantially (Like the beginning of the funky SpaceJam) then this would have been a top billing album, no question about it. Rory Joscelyne.

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