This Flying Circus is a German prog band that deals with a quirky mixture of 70s prog and hard rock. It’s Genesis and Pink Floyd but especially Gentle Giant on one side and Uriah Heep and Led Zeppelin on the other. The band, which has an undisputed underground status, has been around since 1990 and has quite a few albums to its name. The “The Eternal Moment” discussed here is their latest fruit and this sumptuous piece of work deserves an equally passionate review. The album was recorded with all five band members at the same time in the legendary Dierks studio near Cologne. This method has the advantage that the spontaneity can be captured better because there is more mutual interaction. The disadvantage is that this is a bit at the expense of the tightness, but listening to the end result I think the band made the right choice in that respect. The gentlemen are quite virtuoso, so this idiosyncratic music never sounds rash. Unfortunately, singer Michael Dorp is not always in control of his expressiveness, so his fine voice does not always sound so pleasant. To put him in a bit of a box: he sounds like a mixture of David Surkamp (Pavlov’s Dog), Tony Moff Mollo (Grobschnitt), Martin Griffiths (Beggars Opera) and Derek Shulman (Gentle Giant).
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The Hopes We Had
My Lai
Memphis
Child in Time
Supersonic Man
Paris
Your Liege Forever
Never Again
Fire
Black Dog