The Astonishing

DREAM THEATER / / CD /

近未来の物語を二枚組の長大な構成で描く、DREAM THEATERのロック・オペラ大作。

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Track List

  1. Descent Of The NOMACs
  2. Dystopian Overture
  3. The Gift Of Music
  4. The Answer
  5. A Better Life
  6. Lord Nafaryus
  7. A Savior In The Square
  8. When Your Time Has Come
  9. Act Of Faythe
  10. Three Days
  11. The Hovering Sojourn
  12. Brother, Can You Hear Me?
  13. A Life Left Behind
  14. Ravenskill
  15. Chosen
  16. A Tempting Offer
  17. Digital Discord
  18. The X Aspect
  19. A New Beginning
  20. The Road To Revolution
  21. 2285 Entr'acte
  22. Moment Of Betrayal
  23. Heaven's Cove
  24. Begin Again
  25. The Path That Divides
  26. Machine Chatter
  27. The Walking Shadow
  28. My Last Farewell
  29. Losing Faythe
  30. Whispers On The Wind
  31. Hymn Of A Thousand Voices
  32. Our New World
  33. Power Down
  34. Astonishing

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Liner Notes

Japanese

『The Astonishing』は、DREAM THEATERが近未来を舞台にした物語を、全34曲・二幕構成のロック・オペラとして描いた第13作だ。音楽が機械に支配された世界と、それに抗う人々を、オーケストラを交えた壮大なアレンジで綴る。登場人物や場面の変化に合わせて楽曲が表情を変え、鍵盤、ギター、リズム隊が物語の背景と緊張を細かく作り込む、極めて野心的な作品である。 “Dystopian Overture”の重厚な導入、“The Gift of Music”の高揚、悪役を描く“Lord Nafaryus”の劇性、そして“The Road to Revolution”“Our New World”まで、断片的な楽曲が連なって一つの物語を形づくる。技巧的な演奏はもちろん多いが、本作の中心は音で世界を構築することにある。登場人物ガブリエルやフェイスを軸にした物語は、二時間を超えるスケールで展開する。“Moment of Betrayal”“Losing Faythe”の叙情まで、静と動の対比が全編に配置されている。賛否を大きく呼んだ実験作だが、長い時間をかけて一つの物語へ没入したい時にこそ、そのスケールが生きる一枚だ。

English

The Astonishing is the thirteenth album, on which Dream Theater renders a story set in the near future as a rock opera of thirty-four songs across two acts. It tells of a world where music is ruled by machines and the people who resist, through grand arrangement taking in an orchestra. Songs change their faces with the shifts of character and scene, and keyboards, guitar and rhythm section carefully build the story's backdrop and tension — an extremely ambitious work. From the weighty introduction of "Dystopian Overture" to the lift of "The Gift of Music," the drama of the villain's "Lord Nafaryus," and on to "The Road to Revolution" and "Our New World," fragmentary songs link into a single story. There is of course much virtuoso playing, but the center of the work is building a world in sound. A divisive experiment, its scale comes alive precisely when you want to immerse yourself in one long story.

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