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Frogg Cafe' - Frogg Cafe' (debut)

Sounding like a hybrid of Gentle Giant, Dixie Dregs, Frank Zappa, Hands, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Frogg Café’s self-titled debut is filled with complex instrumental arrangements, intelligent melodies, and a firm foot in progressive rock and jazz tradition.

Kicking off with “Deltitnu”, the band goes for your jugular with a complex violin led ditty that is like the perfect marriage of the Dixie Dregs and Gentle Giant. The two-part “Candy Korn” mixes some jazzy, trumpet led dark instrumental passages with vocal sections that brought to mind vintage Kansas , while “Old Souls” is a more rockin’ tune with complex guitar and violin over strong vocals that ask the questions of the afterlife. Piano, guitar, and violin do battle on the wonderful “While You Were Sleeping”, a somber instrumental that soars with majestic melodies and clever instrumental breaks. I was again reminded of Hands or Gentle Giant on the song “Old Man”, from the multiple vocal harmonies to the acoustic meets electric instrumentation, it just screams classic 70′s prog. Frogg Café is an album that strikes a positive nerve with progressive rock and fusion lovers given some exposure.