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Welcome to Masque,
A rock artist who combines "renaissance/medieval sounds with tribal and gothic sensibilities"; the description that one critic described as the only one that could truly encompass this
artist's music.
Perhaps the most accurate statement would be that it's "totally original".
Fronted by Masque's "Phantom of the Opera" vocals and laced with the supporting music of Sy Santos' piano and cello, and the percussive back beat of Tim Foster and
Larry Kehoe, the music evokes a rich tapestry of sound.
From shades of "paradise lost" to the novels
of Anne Rice and Lord Byron poetry, it's as if a dramatic,
allegorical play was being performed through the music.
Coupled with this comes a distinctly tribal undertone
of congas and pan flutes... vampires in Africa?
LeStat gone tribal?
Draw your own conclusions, but any evening watching Masque and his band play will leave you with no doubt of their originality and dynamics, especially when the band
traditionally ends its set by abandoning their
instruments and picking up various hand drums and djembes to end the evening in tribal fashion with newly donned masks on their faces!
Going through three supporting band lineup changes since 1993, Masque's current band finally personifies the
sound and song writing that
makes him unique.
Masque's second studio offering and first full-length CD, "The Garden", released in late 1998, captures Masque's
haunting and original sound.
With such obvious anthems like "Undaunted" and
"Fallen Down" to the melancholy reflections of
"The Vampire's Blues" and "So Long Ago The Garden",
the album is a rock and roll story of fall and redemption couched in medieval/renaissance brocade.
Occasionally launching into a quite modern
sound to remind us that it's here and now, we take a walk in Masque's garden
and have a bite of the proverbial apple that will reveal the knowledge we all should know...
Masque's music
is music for the end of a decade, a
century and a millennia.
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