MOSTLY AUTUMN
Mostly Autumn is a progressive folk rock band from Yorkshire, formed in the 90s. I discovered them by accident, because I read somewhere that Troy Donockley (mainly piper of Nightwish, but also multi-instrumentalist) has collaborated with them. As I'd read in Wikipedia that Mostly Autumn was inspired mainly by Genesis, Camel and Pink Floyd, I'd expected to listen to a rich sophisticated sound with complex melodies, full of Mellotron and Hammond Organ, complex beats and in general a sound resembling the "golden era of rock". But I failed! And good job I did. I would lie if I said if that the first Mostly Autumn song I heard an original one by them. It was early April 2018 and I was alone at home. I was in Facebook at that time, reading posts in Nightwish World Community (a Nightwish fan club, which I am a member in). During that time Tuomas Holopainen, Johanna Kurkela and Troy Donockley had released an album with their newly-formed band, Auri. (Yes, the name is...