DEYSS
''VISION IN THE DARK''
1987
55:44
1 Passage 03:25
2 Take Yourself Back 07:45
3 Chained Human 05:33
4 Untouchable Ghost 03:46
5 The Crazy Life Of Mister Tale 08:30
6 Fifteenth Century Fox 04:49
7 Last Chance Flight 04:48
8 Vision In The Dark 17:05
a. The Overture 2:57
b. The Solo 1:54
c. The Voyage 4:12
d. The Revelation 1:13
e. The Psychasonic 2:12
f. The Return In The Real 4:55
Tracks By Giustino Salvati
Jester/Vocals, All Lyrics (Except 6 & 7)
Giustino Salvati/Keyboards, Lyrics On 7, Arranger
Giovanni De-Vita/Lead Guitar, Arranger
Patrick Dubuis/Bass Guitar, Lyrics On 6, Arranger
Paul Reber/Guitar
François Bauer/Drums
Patrick Heimburger/Additional 12-Strings Guitar On 6
BIOGRAPHY
By Iván Melgar Morey, progarchives.com
DEYSS is a Swiss band that has a good elaborate sound, but sadly lacks of originality, they took the label to the extreme and tried to be a book case of Neo Prog playing in the style of GENESIS and MARILLION, to the point that the vocalist's artistic name is "Jester", but don't expect him sounding remotely as Fish or much less to Peter Gabriel..
Their sound is based in a massive use of lush keyboards with the classical sound of the 80's that reminds me of Jan Hammer in Miami Vice trying to play like Tony Banks.
DEYSS started playing in clubs of the French Switzerland during the late 70's, after several years of performing they found a stable line-up that included Giovanni De-Vita (Fender Stratocaster, Kramer Pacer Series, Roland GR 700 guitar synthetizer and Bouzouki), Patrick Dubuis (Wall Custum Bass, Rickenbaker 4001, Moog taurus bass pedals), Paul Reber (Roland GR 700 guitar synthetizer, Moog Taurus bass pedals) and Giustino Salvati (Godwin CS 444 organ, Prophet 5, Emulator 1, Roland JX8P, Korg Polysix, Minimoog, Moog, Korg MS 20, Crumar Performer and Roland Vocoder SVC 355).
Sounds impressive but they are not, but if you notice, they don't have a drummer, not even in the guests and of course the awful drums machines are credited in their debut album "At-King" which a more than casual similarity with "Script of a Jester's Tear", this album was released in 1985.
For their second release "Visions in the Dark" (1987), they recruit "Jester" as vocalist and a real drummer called Francois Bauer, but still they keep using the Linn Drum Machine.
Despite it's not a great album, you can see an improvement, some dark atmospheres a la Hackett played by the new acoustic guitarist Patrick Heimburger and Givanni Ce Vita make this album much more listenable, but still they haven't found an original sound to call their own,
Three years later with the new millennium DEYSS releases their third and last album "The Dragonfly from the Sun" in which they seem to have learned to deal with the influences instead of almost cloning them, you can listen hints of PINK FLOYD, CAMEL, KING CRIMSON, etc; but the sound is pretty original and very well developed, this album deserves to be listened.
After that, little is known about them, seems they had a web page but it has vanished, so I don't think we'll be hearing more from DEYSS and it's a shame because they were starting to be a great band.
If you're a MARILLION die-hard fan, get the first two albums, but if you like solid releases, go with "The Dragonfly From the Sun".
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''VISION IN THE DARK''
1987
55:44
1 Passage 03:25
2 Take Yourself Back 07:45
3 Chained Human 05:33
4 Untouchable Ghost 03:46
5 The Crazy Life Of Mister Tale 08:30
6 Fifteenth Century Fox 04:49
7 Last Chance Flight 04:48
8 Vision In The Dark 17:05
a. The Overture 2:57
b. The Solo 1:54
c. The Voyage 4:12
d. The Revelation 1:13
e. The Psychasonic 2:12
f. The Return In The Real 4:55
Tracks By Giustino Salvati
Jester/Vocals, All Lyrics (Except 6 & 7)
Giustino Salvati/Keyboards, Lyrics On 7, Arranger
Giovanni De-Vita/Lead Guitar, Arranger
Patrick Dubuis/Bass Guitar, Lyrics On 6, Arranger
Paul Reber/Guitar
François Bauer/Drums
Patrick Heimburger/Additional 12-Strings Guitar On 6
BIOGRAPHY
By Iván Melgar Morey, progarchives.com
DEYSS is a Swiss band that has a good elaborate sound, but sadly lacks of originality, they took the label to the extreme and tried to be a book case of Neo Prog playing in the style of GENESIS and MARILLION, to the point that the vocalist's artistic name is "Jester", but don't expect him sounding remotely as Fish or much less to Peter Gabriel..
Their sound is based in a massive use of lush keyboards with the classical sound of the 80's that reminds me of Jan Hammer in Miami Vice trying to play like Tony Banks.
DEYSS started playing in clubs of the French Switzerland during the late 70's, after several years of performing they found a stable line-up that included Giovanni De-Vita (Fender Stratocaster, Kramer Pacer Series, Roland GR 700 guitar synthetizer and Bouzouki), Patrick Dubuis (Wall Custum Bass, Rickenbaker 4001, Moog taurus bass pedals), Paul Reber (Roland GR 700 guitar synthetizer, Moog Taurus bass pedals) and Giustino Salvati (Godwin CS 444 organ, Prophet 5, Emulator 1, Roland JX8P, Korg Polysix, Minimoog, Moog, Korg MS 20, Crumar Performer and Roland Vocoder SVC 355).
Sounds impressive but they are not, but if you notice, they don't have a drummer, not even in the guests and of course the awful drums machines are credited in their debut album "At-King" which a more than casual similarity with "Script of a Jester's Tear", this album was released in 1985.
For their second release "Visions in the Dark" (1987), they recruit "Jester" as vocalist and a real drummer called Francois Bauer, but still they keep using the Linn Drum Machine.
Despite it's not a great album, you can see an improvement, some dark atmospheres a la Hackett played by the new acoustic guitarist Patrick Heimburger and Givanni Ce Vita make this album much more listenable, but still they haven't found an original sound to call their own,
Three years later with the new millennium DEYSS releases their third and last album "The Dragonfly from the Sun" in which they seem to have learned to deal with the influences instead of almost cloning them, you can listen hints of PINK FLOYD, CAMEL, KING CRIMSON, etc; but the sound is pretty original and very well developed, this album deserves to be listened.
After that, little is known about them, seems they had a web page but it has vanished, so I don't think we'll be hearing more from DEYSS and it's a shame because they were starting to be a great band.
If you're a MARILLION die-hard fan, get the first two albums, but if you like solid releases, go with "The Dragonfly From the Sun".
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