Really enjoyed Haken at Warsaw Klub Progresja, high-quality Prog for a Saturday night, just the tonic.
My favourite tunes of a great set were '1985' and 'Cockroach King'.
Have only become familiar with Haken over the last year or two and have come to really like their unique sound.
Find it difficult to describe their 'brand' of Prog, but their music kind of reminds of a synthesis of Gentle Giant, King Crimson and Leprous (if this is imagineable).
Anyway, a 100-minute or so set simply flashed by with the crowd in awe of wonderful musicianship. Below, the band are about to take a bow at the end of the set:
Got up to the Progresja at about 7.30 last night expecting Norwegian Prog band Rendezvous Point to be on at this time, but things seemed to be running behind schedule, so I ended up watching another Norwegian band Arkentype too:
With all the choppy guitar work, Arkentype are not really my kind of thing.
But with their non-stop energy, they were interesting.
During one song, the band members sequentially made their way down from the stage to play on the floor encircled by a happy, smiling crowd:
Then after Arkentype, I got to see Rendezvous Point:
Would love to see Rendezvous Point do a 90-minute set, as the 45 minutes served up last night had me gagging for more.
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