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Crash Course For Dessert

by Salander

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1.
Reminiscence 08:54
1. Reminiscence [8:53] Please hold the line and let me talk Maybe we could take a walk And turn things over Don't hang up and walk away I have so many things to say Too much to cover Late one night upon the beach The fire and you in my reach You were my lover As the sparks flew in the skies I kiss the starlight in your eyes New world recovered It was much to my surprise I saw the tear in your eye I never earned it Maybe I was far too young Singing a song that can’t be sung Until you've learn it Now as the night is crawling by I watch the starlight as I lie Awake in loneliness Just how sweet life could have been If I had but only seen You were my only-ness. Only ness
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2 Ground Proximity Warning [3:39] Too many miles from Marrakech Got nothing to go for an nothing left One more job and I'm free to go But the temperatures high and the fuel is low I'm goin' down Frequencies dead on the radio bands Gonna bring me down in the desert sands Now all I want is to hold your hand Help me find a place to land I'm goin' down Warning sounds flashing in my brain Evrything's bust in this damned old plane All I need is this thing to fly But its taking me down and I'm gonna die I'm goin' down Pull Up! ... ( whoop whoop) Pull Up! ... ( whoop whoop) Pull Up! ... ( whoop whoop) Pull Up! ... ( whoop whoop) Pull Up! ... ( whoop whoop)
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3.Out of the Wreckage [4:51] Out of the skies Reborn from an exotic womb Out of darkness That around comes around too soon Reborn from darkness Reborn from my self-created tomb ah-ha I strike out for the daylight Out of the maze Out of the maze of my darkened room I cling to the plane I cling to the wreckage of my extremes Stare at my pride Tied to the mast of my big dreams On a proud ship of fools Now smashed on the rocks of emotion Look down upon me No more than a speck on this desert ocean See me………… See me Now See me ...... save me A scene from the past The beaches in the pastel mist The calm in her voice Discovery’s daylight when we kissed She told me “Life isn’t just a destination A road written to some greater plan Just savour each stop and every station You wander this world You wander world as a man Out of the wreckage Reborn from an exotic womb Out of the wreckage Reborn from an exotic womb Out of the wreckage Reborn from an exotic womb
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Desert Sands 05:19
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5. All the Money in the World [6:43] Just imagine.... Someone gave you half a million dollars Wouldn't it be nice Just buy a car, or buy a plane Never see this place again Away in a moment.... away in a moment The sun arrives , nowhere to hide I drag the case?... or leave it behind? To close my eyes Just to see your face My back to the sun, to find my place You can hear me call, try to hear my voice A thousand miles. Diverted from my course All this money in the world What use its it now It drags me down I'm anchored now But the stores are all closed The lady was right All the money in the world will not make this right By a tree by the brook, hear the piper play Take me by the hand Do not let me stray By a tree by the brook, hear the piper play The sun arrives , there's nowhere to hide I drag the case?... or leave it behind? To close my eyes Just to see your face My back to the sun, to find my place If you can hear my call, try to hear my voice A thousand miles. Diverted from my course All this money in the world What use its it now It drags me down I'm anchored now
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Take Me Away 13:51
7.Take Me Away [13:51] Mountains of grains of sand Shift slowly beneath my feet Impeding my every stride Sapping my energy Slowing every step Until my eyes behold this cool oasis The waters invite me to them Clear .... cool..... cleansing. I dive...... Rising Feeling the dirt fall from my every sense Sense of salvation My head breaks the surface I open my eyes to see See your face You sit in the shade of an olive tree Looking at you..... as you look at me The boundary is forced You implore me to take the course It takes for me to realise you implore me to take this course Look to the skies and see to the stars Look to the ground and I see through earth It is real so real Look in my eyes and I'll tell you the truth Look through my eyes to see sorrow and pain it is real so real Look to the skies and see to the stars Look to the ground and I see through earth It is real it's so real Look in my eyes and I'll tell you the truth Look through my eyes to see sorrow and pain it is real Ah so real You shall not have her You shall not take her It is my will to keep her It is my will to enslave her here with me You will not free her from my glistening prison Of broken emotions This palace of dreams for the well-heeled souls of my realm This concubine dancer my fantasies master This giver of pleasures My golden haired treasure You shall not have her You shall not have her You shall not have her Take me away, she implores This girl that he adores Take me away from this shore Take me away from this shore Anywhere but here Anywhere but here Anywhere but here Anywhere but here !
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8.Anywhere But Here [1:35] (If you think I'm going to type out "Anywhere but here ten" times you've got another thing coming - Chum ! ) ... (Dave) ==========================================================================
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Princess 10:55
9. Princess [10:55] Out from the haven from the chains of safety For a convenient place to hide come with me I recognise your captured spirit bursting free Just take my hands, come with me, find our freedom This false mirage is not like something we've known Look to the heavens and the stars will guide us home I see the bars trap your soul Stealing light that makes you whole I watch the darkness forming in your eyes Perpetual purgatory or our salvation We will find destiny or cruel damnation Escape from.... OR ....The instigation of our doom We know that anywhere is better than here There is a sanctuary free from dark fears Out of the wreckage, reborn from this perfect tomb I see the bars trap your soul Stealing light that makes you whole I watch the darkness growing in your eyes Perpetual purgatory or our salvation We will find destiny or cruel damnation Escape from.... OR ....The instigation of our doom We know that anywhere is better than here There is a sanctuary free from dark fears Out of the wreckage, reborn from this perfect tomb

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Reviews for Crash Course For Dessert.

Review by Geoff Barton
Classic Rock Magazine June 2014

Salander are a pair of 50-something dudes who proclaim proudly:
"this is our first album release. There's nothing like being prolific - and this is nothing like being prolific."
Here they explore the fate of a pilot who crashes his plane in the desert with a million dollars on board. It's an engrossing mix of Devin Townsend quirkiness and Peter Gabriel story telling.

Review by Bradley Birzer from www.progarchy.com

There’s nothing quite like wearing one’s influences on one’s sleeves. This seems especially true for two English guys named Dave. As I glory in the sheer aural pleasures of this album, I hear elements of Big Big Train, Cosmograf, Talk Talk, World Party, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, as well as Trevor Horn’s early 1980’s production style and Thomas Dolby’s funk period (this was the most shocking element of the album!). And, yet, in the end, as with almost any great art, the album very much belongs to Salander. Three things tie together all of its various styles and fusions—a wall of sound, an earnest maturity of lyrics and music, and a lot of psychedelia.

The first time I listened to the album, I thought, “Wow, that’s really interesting.” The second time, I thought, “Wow, that’s really, really interesting.” On the third listen, it hit me what they were doing. And, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t come up with true words to match my feelings for this album. On the fourth and all subsequent listens, I’ve just simply and immeasurably enjoyed the flow of it all, taking it for the beautiful thing it is.

While I very much like all nine tracks, the standouts for me are Track 4, “Desert Sands,” a Cosmografic space tune; Track 7, “Take Me Away,” a Dead Can Dance mid-1990s tune with plaintive haunting poetry masquerading as lyrics; and Track 9, “Princess,” the perfect conclusion to a mesmerizing album, revealing some intriguing theological and existential symbolism.

I have only two criticisms of the album, neither of which really amount to much. First, I wish the mix would have increased the volume of the vocals a smidgeon. While no one will regard either Dave as possessing a “beautiful” voice, their vocals are excellent, and each vocalist knows what his abilities and limits are, vocally, and utilizes them wonderfully. As the mix stands, the vocals essentially serve as another instrument—but they deserve a bit more.

Second, I wish that the two Daves would have linked and meshed all of the tracks, one into another, with no silence between them. While I think “Crash Course” could be one song with nine parts, I also think it might have worked best as three songs with three parts each. The one really funky track, “Make Me Dance,” which feels like a Trevor Horn 12-inch remix from 1982, would feel a bit more integrated.

These, however, are nothing but very minor thoughts. The more I listen to the album, the less these two criticisms make sense.

So, in conclusion—check these guys out. Check them out now! “Crash Course for Dessert” is an outstanding album that deserves to be widely heard and distributed. A real joy.
“Crash Course for Dessert,” will almost certainly make into my top 10 for 2014 and probably my top 5. Holy schnikees this is amazing stuff.

SALANDER NINE OUT OF TEN !!

Powerplay Magazine have run a review on Crash Course in their June Issue:

SALANDER
Crash Course For Dessert
Genre: Prog
Independent Release

The Salander boys have taken their love of Floyd and Yes, and using that foundation of prog rock, they have thrown in touches of jazz, space rock, blues and flamenco, cemented it all in place with layers of the ambient, mystic eastern dance groove thing of Afro Celt Sound
System (check out 'Make Me Dance'to see what I mean), and having wrapped it all together in a home based studio, produced the rather delicious 'Crash Course For Dessert'.
Learning their craft in various blues/rock cover bands, Salander is a couple of middle aged beer bellies with an itch to scratch. And what an itch. An obvious labour of love, this album is a truly exceptional piece of art; utterly enchanting, captivating, bewitching. So, why not a perfect score? I'll tell you why. A ten out of ten would suggest that there is no room to manoeuvre, no improvements to be made (the Croninesque vocal does need refining a touch), but 'Crash Course For Dessert' is so spectacularly effortless that it suggests Salander's next project will blow everything out of the water that even the most exalted of prog rock's uber-men have produced during the last twenty
years.
Dither ye not. If you are into Floydian prog, then nip over to salander.bandcamp.com and get yourself a copy of this album. An absolute masterpiece, even a full page review couldn't do 'Crash Course For Dessert' justice, so you'd better go listen for yourself. Just get it. Now!
POWERPOINTS: 9/10
PHIL KANE

Review from New Prog Releases.
Hyle Troy February 18, 2014 at 4:11 PM
So many styles. Never boring. I love that in music. Deep in the blurb they tell us it is a concept album with a story running through it. The whole thing has beautiful keys playing, and the guitars can be sweet at one point and screaming soon after. My Favourites? " Take me Away" and "Princess" ... These guys have given us something really special for a debut album. Can't wait for the next

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released February 8, 2014

All songs written and performed by Dave Curnow and Dave Smith

Dave Curnow.
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Lead Guitars. Rhythm Guitars.
Lead Vocal on Ground Proximity Warning and Take Me away

Dave Smith.
Music.
Keyboards. Bass. Drum Programming. Rhythm Guitars. Spanish Guitars.
Lead Vocal on all songs except Ground Proximity Warning

Recorded and Produced at Gästrummet Studios, Durham September 2013 to January 2014

Produced by Salander

Mixed and Engineered by Dave Smith

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