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In the world of indie rock, songwriters Gary Wayne Clark and Glen Dale Spreen provide an island of uniqueness amid an ocean of conformity. The stark diversity of their musical backgrounds may be the genesis for this musical alchemy; Spreen is a West Texas industry veteran with over 100 credited performances as an arranger, producer, conductor and musician for many top artists and Clark is an award awaiting science fiction author and former bass player for a gritty east coast rock band best known as "one of North Carolina's loudest bands". Together they have quietly been weaving an unexpected genre bending musical tapestry that stretches the boundaries of the imagination.
After debuting with the critically acclaimed but commercially panned C&W album "Looking for a Friend", Clark and Spreen regrouped introspectively to collaborate on two solid solo albums, "Emonesia™" and "Taos Skies", building a solid fan base in the UK and Japan. But it was a musical right turn in 2009 that revealed their true songwriting talents with the groundbreaking soundtrack “Passage to Niburu”, followed in 2011 with the sequel “Rise of the Chimera.” Inspired by the epic Sci-Fi eBook series “The Devolution Chronicles” by Clark, this new musical mothership seems well equipped to penetrate the film and video game world with it’s mind-bending emotive cinematic soundscape that musically confirms one thing in the mysterious multiverse – 'effin Darwin did indeed get it backwards.
After debuting with the critically acclaimed but commercially panned C&W album "Looking for a Friend", Clark and Spreen regrouped introspectively to collaborate on two solid solo albums, "Emonesia™" and "Taos Skies", building a solid fan base in the UK and Japan. But it was a musical right turn in 2009 that revealed their true songwriting talents with the groundbreaking soundtrack “Passage to Niburu”, followed in 2011 with the sequel “Rise of the Chimera.” Inspired by the epic Sci-Fi eBook series “The Devolution Chronicles” by Clark, this new musical mothership seems well equipped to penetrate the film and video game world with it’s mind-bending emotive cinematic soundscape that musically confirms one thing in the mysterious multiverse – 'effin Darwin did indeed get it backwards.
Reviews
"Gary Wayne Clark and Glen Dale Spreen are brilliant composers and undisputed geniuses behind the controls of a sound board. Rise of the Chimera is powerful, haunting, beautiful and unique. The sound quality is astounding and this is an album that can be listened to many times, each time yielding some new and previously undiscovered treasure."
Reviewed by Rhonda Readence
Rating: 5 stars (out of 5)"
"Upon first listening to Rise Of The Chimera you may be bombarded with mixed feelings. The album’s futuristic overtones and suggestively space-aged lyrics are agreeably different, but there is something about them that make you want to continue listening. And by the time it’s over you’ll be glad you did. You don’t have to listen long at all to be able to tell how much effort the duo has put into writing and composing their songs. Each song takes you on a separate journey and tells a whole story of its own. But at the same time, each song adds to the previous one, creating one huge story by the time you are finished listening to the album."
Review by: Alec Cunningham
Rating: 4 stars (out of 5)
Reviewed by Rhonda Readence
Rating: 5 stars (out of 5)"
"Upon first listening to Rise Of The Chimera you may be bombarded with mixed feelings. The album’s futuristic overtones and suggestively space-aged lyrics are agreeably different, but there is something about them that make you want to continue listening. And by the time it’s over you’ll be glad you did. You don’t have to listen long at all to be able to tell how much effort the duo has put into writing and composing their songs. Each song takes you on a separate journey and tells a whole story of its own. But at the same time, each song adds to the previous one, creating one huge story by the time you are finished listening to the album."
Review by: Alec Cunningham
Rating: 4 stars (out of 5)