MS 2000: Dreams & Expressions

MS 2000: Dreams & Expressions

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
M.S. continues to stretch guitar music boundaries with his second all instrumental project on Shrapnel Records. Includes one bonus track for 21 tracks in all. The tracks do not have titles. Standard jewel case. 2000 release.

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Album Description

M.S. continues to stretch guitar music boundaries with his second all instrumental project on Shrapnel Records. Includes one bonus track for 21 tracks in all. The tracks do not have titles. Standard jewel case. 2000 release.

Customer Reviews:

Another classic.......2006-05-31

In the arts the term 'classic' refers to a work that you keep on having to come back to because you can never quite get your head around it. Thus, 'classics' are written by the especially gifted who resist cheap pigeon-holing. Schenker is like this - his music is definitely 'hard rock', but beyond that he resists easy categorisation. His works have so much going on in them that there is normally more to hear even after multiple listens. Dreams and Expressions is no exception to this. At first one might think it less immediately impacting than your average instrumental electric guitar album. Many shredders seem able to initially create a momentary 'wow' factor that instantly catches the ear but which then rapidly fades to a 'boredom' factor. It's not like this with Schenker or with Dreams and Expressions. It's more like on first listen a small seed is planted. One is perhaps not blown away but more intrigued. So, one listens again and the seed grows. Getting more interested, the listener listens a third time and the seed starts to grow big time. Soon, one has a whole rain forest to contend with - something that it's hard ever to get bored with. Dreams and Expressions just keeps 'moving on' and changing things before any boredom can set in. I'm still hearing fresh things now after dozons of listens. It's heavy, melodic, eclectic, joyful, technical, and genre-redefining. One does not miss a vocalist, but if a vocalist is required get 'Tales of Rock n Roll' which has some affinities with Dreams and Expressions but with vocal parts added. Both albums are classics from the world's best rock guitarist. If the average generic shredder seeks to make an IMpression (which presupposes only vanity), Schenker definitely seeks to create an EXpression (which presupposes the whole richness of what it means to be a human being at the same time as risking rejection through not playing the game of simply 'trying to impress'). So, Dreams and Expressions is very aptly named.

quit now.......2005-09-25

if you're a guitarist, put your guitar down now and order this album!!!! don't pick that axe back up yet......listen to this album closely. if your goal is to be a great guitarist, listen to this album more. if your goal is to be the worlds best guitarist and an artist who will one day create not only a masterpiece, but also to demonstrate a mastery of the brush, the canvas and the paint used in the process.......forget it! mr. schenker beat ya to it!!!

Not as good as "Adventures", but still fun.......2005-03-05

Hard to follow what I thought was a perfect album ("Adventures in Imagination"), but MS does a pretty good job. This is more of a concept album. I think his hardcore fans will probably enjoy it more than some people not familiar with Michael. I have to admit, I was thrown by the production. Some songs are broken up into very small bits and end when you would not think they would. However, the mind-altering guitar work is still there. I pray this guy keeps making records like this. No offense, but I think UFO and MSG have outlived their shelf-life. Michael as a solo player, with no singer, is what I like best.

another set of great riffs.......2004-03-21

i have heard him on ufo,,,,, msg and now on this cd,,,,, the best track is number 8 :lightning riffs: will now require a relisten to the cassettes with macauley to get the fine points,
this is an interesting cd and will take careful attention to get all the notes and sequences. As others have said he uses a variety of moods , rhythms ,,,,,,, i imagine at many concerts he expands on the basic themes of any of these cuts..... remember : number 8 is the best one on this

No need for a vocalist.......2004-01-13

In this follow up to his first electric instrumental album (the excellent "Adventures of the Imagination"), Michael ties together a series of 21 "songlets". Basically musical ideas and themes that he came up with while fiddling around with his guitar, these are edited together to create what is probably the best heavy metal backround album of all time. Released to help pay for the building of his studio (which his now ex wife promptly stole from him), this is more of a one off album for people who are already fans. That is not to say that the uninitiated will not enjoy hearing a man who is more creative and expressive with a one minute musical statement than most bands are with entire albums. Feel free to read that last sentence again so that it can sink in. Backed by the ever impressive Barry Sparks on bass and Shane Gaalaas on drums, this is a great high energy album to drive home from work with.

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