Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
31	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	1	2	3	4

Unified Past - Shifting The Equilibrium (2015)

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 3 Nov 2022 22:00:52

Unified Past is a power progressive rock band from Syracuse, New York. Their new recording, “Shifting the Equilibrium”, was released on September 15, 2015 and has been receiving rave reviews in the progressive rock circles. The recording contains 6 power prog compositions,clocking in at 56 minutes. The addition of grammy award winning vocalist Phil Naro show’s that the band is continuing to grow and evolve and that they are a band that prog rock fans should really get to know. Guitarist Stephen Speelman possesses a master’s degree in classical guitar performance, bass player Dave Mickelson is currently a member of Joey Belladonna’s Chief Big Way and thunderous drummer Victor Tassone has appeared on several independent artist releases as well, including Corvus Stone and Andy John Bradford’s Oceans 5. While there is most certainly plenty of chops to be found in this band’s music, their overall sound focuses more on melody and song composition than it does on technical gymnastics. Unified Past's 2013 release, "Spots", on Melodic Revolution Records (MRR CD 22005) was their most gripping recording yet and connected with many fans of the progressive rock genre. Shifting the Equilibrium is the band’s 7th release and their third for Melodic Revolution Records. The CD is a 6 panel digi pack containing a 12 page booklet of lyrics and photos, designed by international fantasy artist Ed Unitsky, who also designed “Spots” in 2013. The stunning artwork is supplemented by the photography of Rochester’s Scott Hamilton. The visual presentation in combination with the sonic experience, makes this a recording that will most certainly introduce the band to a larger audience. If you are a dedicated fan of progressive rock music and you are not familiar with Unified Past, the time is now to discover this power prog artist.

US act UNIFIED PAST was formed back in 1999. The roots of the band go back to the early 80's, when Stephen SPEELMAN and Victor TASSONE started working together in various band projects, and then formed their own in 1990. This band, named Labyrinth, were active throughout the 1990's, and released three full length albums.

By 1999 the band had become a rather different project, lead by Speelman (guitars, drums) with Vinny KRIVACSY (keyboards, vocals), Peter PALMIERI (bass) and Matthew WOOD (drums) making up the rest of the band. They were approached by indie label Atomik Records, who signed the band. The band decided that a new name was in order at this time, and their old moniker LABYRINTH was replaced with UNIFIED PAST at this point. Later the same year their first album under this new name followed in the shape of "From the Splintered Present Surfaces", a collection of re-recorded old material alongside a few new pieces.

The band went into hiatus as recording artists following this production, but in 2008 UNIFIED PAST returned to the scene with the album "Power of Existence". This time around sporting two of the members from their LABYRINTH days, Steve CALOVI (vocals) and Victor TASSONE (drums) alongside SPEELMAN, with a guest appearance by keyboardist KRIVACSY. What the future holds in store for this veteran act time will obviously have to tell. Their return to the scene has been met with positive acclaim, which might herald this latest album release as the start of a new lease of life for UNIFIED PAST rather than being an epilogue to a long and eventful history.

Following the release of "Tense", UNIFIED PAST sign with Melodic Revolution Records and release in 2011 the album "Observations", continuing as a trio (TASSONE, SPEELMAN, KRIVACSY). In 2013, the second release through the same label follows, entitled "Spots", while Dave MICKELSON has picked up the bass duties and KRIVACSY is no longer on board.

~ Prog Archives

Official Website | Prog Archives | All Music

***************

Track List:

01. Erasure Principle [07:52]
02. Smile (In The Face Of Adversity) [09:23]
03. Etched In Stone [11:06]
04. Peace Remains In This World [07:45]
05. Deviation From A Theme (Of Harmonic Origin) [08:18]
06. Today Is The Day [11:51]

Personnel:
Stephen Speelman - Guitar & Keys
Victor Tassone - Drums
Dave Mickelson - Bass
Phil Naro - Vocals

EAC Log

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 6 from 9. April 2015

EAC extraction logfile from 18. October 2015, 13:51

Unified Past / Shifting The Equilibrium

Used drive : TSSTcorpCDDVDW SH-S223C Adapter: 1 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 697
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\wavpack\wavpack.exe
Additional command line options : -hm -w "Year=%year%" -w "Genre=%genre%" %source% %dest%

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 7:52.00 | 0 | 35399
2 | 7:52.00 | 9:22.74 | 35400 | 77623
3 | 17:14.74 | 11:05.74 | 77624 | 127572
4 | 28:20.73 | 7:45.00 | 127573 | 162447
5 | 36:05.73 | 8:18.00 | 162448 | 199797
6 | 44:23.73 | 11:50.74 | 199798 | 253121

Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename D:\_NL+_\_CD\Unified Past - Shifting The Equilibrium.wav

Peak level 97.7 %
Extraction speed 3.2 X
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 49BD7D2F
Copy CRC 49BD7D2F
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

Track 1 not present in database
Track 2 not present in database
Track 3 not present in database
Track 4 not present in database
Track 5 not present in database
Track 6 not present in database

None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database

End of status report

–– CUETools DB Plugin V2.1.6

[CTDB TOCID: WwV2Lr2_sjiBCNlH7KWp.i74jbk-] disk not present in database
Submit result: WwV2Lr2_sjiBCNlH7KWp.i74jbk- has been uploaded

==== Log checksum 92AC0EF3CAB639C5E3CF2AC9F28B9834A5379B39897000D06E031E3FEF0F889F ====

All thanks go to tatuk

>>> My Blog <<<

DOWNLOAD:

FLAC
MP3
SCANS

Rock Unified Past Progressive Rock Lossless FLAC MP3 CD-Rip + Scans 2010s 2015