Office of Strategic Influence

Artist: O.S.I.
Label: Avalon
Category: Music

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Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4527516003470
ASIN: B00007KL0Y

Release Date: 2003-01-27

Office of Strategic Influence

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Tracks:

New Math (What He Said)
OSI
When You're Ready
Horseshoes and B-52's
Head
Hello, Helicopter!
Shutdown
Dirt from a Holy Place
Memory Daydreams Lapses
Standby (Looks Like Rain)

Tracks:

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
New Mama
Thing That Never Was
Enhanced CD Video Documentary

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Album Description

Full Title - Office Of Strategic Influence. Japanese edition of 2003 album from Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy & Kevin Moore is scheduled for earliest release (German release is scheduled for 2-17-03). Guests include members of Fates Warning (Jim Matheos), Cynic (Sean Malone), Chroma Key, Gordian Knot & Porcupine Tree. 13 tracks including three bonus tracks, 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun', 'New Mama' & 'The Thing That Never Was'. Marquee.

Album Details

The Debut Album featuring the Duo of Jim Matheos of Fates Warning and Kevin Moore from Chromakey and Dream Theater, as Well as Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy.

Customer Reviews:

1984 Big Brother is watching..........2005-03-09

Excellent progressive music from talented musicians, more dynamic than Chroma Key material though. Good balance between hard pieces of music and nostalgic ballads. People who liked Liquid Tension Experiment (One or Two) will appreciate this special release. Set the controls for the heart of the sun is a good remake, Floyd fans won't be disappointed.

It's all right...but not mind-blowing........2004-05-21

Since I like Dream Theater. I was curious to hear what this band might sound like, having Sean Malone from Gordian Knot on bass.The drum work is as crisp as ever, and Kevin Moore's keyboard lines seem well placed. However,someone needs to tell the bass players in this band that they are part of a rhythm section, tho. Too many bass players today seem content to act like a guitar player with four strings, and play the exact same thing as the guitarist. Bo-ring!!! Do something different! It's a PROG band!!!!

Buy the one with bonus cd.......2003-11-14

I was hesitating between the regular album and the one with the bonus tracks. I finally picked up the most expensive and I am glad I did. That Pink Floyd song is amazing through my home speakers (wow! it is blowing wind and the hole house vibrates). I would have also missed the gorgeous "The thing that never was" (a 17:21 minutes of "The new math" song with more extravaganza).

There is one thing and a half that I don't like on this album. Song "Dirt from a holy place" and the first half of "Shutdown". Re-edit about shutdown: Now I understand more the beginning of the song what I did not hear at the first. There's a lady whispering things in french (she says: I tought there was more, I bet I bet, I always wanted to dance Arita Franklin, I can do better, I hide, where do you hide, stand my love stand, because you travel).

Kevin Moore is a talented keyboardist, I really like his style and singing. They are all exceptional musicians anyway.

Favorite song is "When you're ready" with that echoing wooo wooo wooo wooo and the acoustic guitar.

A must have

Incredible Visceral Gut-gnawing.......2003-11-13

I havn't been able to get this album outta my head since I started listening to it, it's simply incredible. It sends me on a quasi-industrial, cyber-punk futuristic surrealistic voyage into realms of political angst, and future shock. Fits well into a Post 911 world and is definitely cutting edge. I can picture Terminator-like scenes with hovering robotic ships, hunter-killers roaming a desolate post-apocalyptic industrial wasteland, the sound effects being the lasers and other futuristic scanning devices - not for the faint of heart! Anyone looking for something to fill that ever-gnawing empty space while waiting between Porcupine Tree or Dream Theater CD's will gobble this down like a starving refugee. It begins with "The New Math(What He Said)"snippets of Dan Rather obviously trying to get info on some world event and he is getting nowhere which lends the song a paranoid-out of control feel, not to mention the heavy riffs(my girlfriend always tells me to turn this CD DOWN!).Then we get "When You Are Ready" and "OSI", which for me give off a real sense of foreboding and caution for what the States foreign policy is lately. Interspersed, so you can catch your breath, we get dreamy, mellow acoustic songs such as "Hello Helicopter" and the understated "Standby(Looks Like Rain)" which seems a metaphor for saying troubled days are forecast for the near future. Disregard the reviews that pan this CD and give it a spin to decide for yourself, and try to keep all expectations aside, as that always ruins the experience. When we listen with preconceived ideas the listening experience always suffers. This CD seems to me ahead of its time and has it's finger firmly on the pulse of the world situation today and is boldly forging new paths musically. Should be listed in a new genre called "cyber-punk industrial angst"

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