Jessy Mach - Anime legends reborn
Review by Karl Magi
Overall Album Impressions
Jessy Mach’s Anime legends reborn reinterprets classic anime themes with vivacity and instrumental flair. Jessy Mach has wrapped up some of his favorite anime themes and covered them with verve, incorporating his unique guitar sounds and sense for aurally intriguing synth tones and textures. He carries the superb melodies and thrilling sense of adventure with skillful musicality and an obvious love for the material. The resulting album is highly entertaining and full of fun as it unfolds.
At the heart of Anime legends reborn are Jessy Mach’s guitar skills. He’s one of the finest guitar players on the synth scene and he demonstrates sparkling talent and a fine sense of what sounds good. His solos are expressive and emotive with real life to them he carries the melodies with aplomb and an easily flowing sensibility. The end result is a joy to listen to and adds depth to the overall experience.
The way in which Jessy Mach chooses synth sounds and brings them together deepens Anime legends reborn’s production quality. I enjoy the way in which he showcases different moods through the tones that he uses, along with soloistic moments that paint impressionistic imagery throughout. The music is lively and colorful as he interprets the original compositions with a fresh pair of ears.
I also enjoy the choice of tracks that Jessy Mach covers on Anime legends reborn. There’s a nice mix of interesting sounds and enjoyable melodies that convey all of the pleasure of watching first-rate anime movies and television series. In the end, I feel drawn towards these themes for the way in which they reach out with feeling and life.
My Favourite Tracks Analyzed
“Masked for freedom” comes into being as hollow but luminous notes wriggle in steady motion. The rhythm explodes into active speed as the arpeggios leap with encouraging life. The drums are forceful and accelerative as the glimmering tones carry a melody radiant with dynamic energy while the beat grows more insistent.
Jessy Mach’s guitar slices with irrepressible strength, carrying a melody celebratory and joyful. Victory fills every note of the guitar as it unfurls with sensations of flying and triumph above the unstoppably jamming rhythm. Jessy Mach captures me with his absolutely skillful performance as the melody conveys feelings of success.
As the rhythm pumps, the guitar cries out with passionate power, infusing the music with images of fighting and winning. The slowly undulating synth blazes from behind the guitar as it flames out with a sense of freedom. The rhythm continues to batter as the guitar notes shine like sunlight and the solo rips into the music, intertwining with wild energy, carrying me along with it. Jessy Mach’s solo unfolds with intricacy and feral power before the track ends.
Snarling synth and explosive guitar fall downward to commence “Ulysses at the edge of the universe.” The pounding beat launches as hollow tones echo and the main melody calls out on a razor-sharp synth, full of exciting strength and adventurous motion. The supporting bass undulates as the main melody blazes with heat.
The drums pulse out a heavy tattoo as the guitar adds weight and the bending notes mingle with airy tones to create dynamic power. Jessy Mach’s guitar cries with impassioned sound while the pumping low end slams forward. I feel compelled by the main melody’s thrilling sense of starbound adventure.
The guitar is full of heart and unbound freedom while the foundation throbs. Jessy Mach plays a solo that is fiercely technical and exudes total thrill as it carries the track to its end.
“The Strength of the sword” opens as raging, pounding drums move with ragged bass and slowly twinkling notes. The punchy drum retort and growling bass are joined by brassy notes that glow with stirring luminosity. A sound sweeps through as the huge drums bounce off the dense bass and the main melody erupts majestically, exuding a sense of hard-won success.
The strings sing with uplifting positivity, flooding me with adrenaline, while the rockets with indomitable power. Once again, the rousing theme skirls with images of warriors fighting against the odds to secure victory and defeat their deadly foe. The bottom end surges as the main melody leaps one last time to fly out with honorable, victorious emotion.
Captain Harlock is asked why he wants to defend the Earth as “Black flag” begins. The slowly undulating underpinnings throb with ominous strength before the main melody calls out on a jagged, gleaming synth that fills the music with mystery and strength.
Rebounding percussion joins with the heavy bottom pulse to create steady motion as a violin cries out repeatedly. The swashbuckling main melody radiates purpose. The angular synth slices with shadowy muscle as the percussion and bass interlock. Bright notes flash and fade as the main melody exudes a sense of mission, filling me with resolve.
The minor key melody drifts with a haunting feeling as supporting sounds rumble and the tense violin shifts. Heavy bass underpins the melody which takes on fervent ferocity while the percussion rolls into silence.
“Eyes of the thunder” starts with a brass fanfare, creating excitement before the charging beat rockets with irrepressible power. Quickly tripping synth echoes with growing luminosity as the urgent rhythm slams forward. The brassy melody calls out with thrill and galvanizing power, filling me with a sensation of soaring optimism.
The pounding heartbeat is sliced by Jessy Mach’s guitar as it twirls with freedom and clarity while the trumpets fill the music with joyous escape. Jessy Mach’s guitar is deployed in a free-flowing solo that expresses release and an unconquerable spirit. As usual, the playing is talented and full of life while the low end continues to bounce.
Once again, the leading melody flies out with encouragement while the guitar cuts in between with madly driven energy, intricate and muscled before the track comes to an end.
Deeply underpinning weight moves with sweeping, breathy sounds before the guitar somersaults with feral force to open “Jayce and Forcair.” The guitar rips through the music with razor claws as the hammering beat launches and the synth blasts out radiance while the melody soars with a mingled sensation of strength and memory.
The melodic pattern is full of remembrance and triumphant sensations while the battering bottom line punches in. The drums flourish and Jessy Mach’s guitar cries out, ardent and hopeful, slicing with intricate precision as the bass rises. Metallic sounds ring out as the drums charge and the guitar wriggles with unbound drama before the track drifts into a segment in which the chugging guitar is contrasted with serene synth, creating balance before the strength grows again and my heart soars with it.
As the guitar rumbles, the lead synth fills the music with rising strength and positivity before the guitar unfurls and carries me away on a tide of brilliance. As the track comes to an end, the low end smacks hard and the molten guitar explodes.
“Heart of the Sunken Worlds” starts with rebounding, scintillating synth and slowly pulsing drums as the strutting bass moves in an angular tide. The elevated synth exudes with aquatic light, dancing like filtering beams through water. The rhythmic shimmy has a funky quality while the raised notes exude luminescence above it.
Broad waves of hard-edged synth slide like heavy currents as the main melody cries with ancient majesty, filling me with sensations of nobility. The vocals cut through, helping to tell the story, while the rebounding tones flash and the main melody climbs with aspiring dynamism, lighting the dark places with positive emotion.
Massively growling synth tones descend while the lead melody holds a quality of honorable strength. Twisting tones slice through the music with ghostly, minor key sensations before the colossally rumbling low end moves again. The track ends on intricately interwoven notes tumbling into silence.
Slowly shimmering notes undulate to kick off “Galactic sheriff.” Ragged bass growls with intimidating strength and the beat pounds with unabated power, propelling the synth pattern into hypnotic motion. The slicing sounds move past and acquire weight as the synth cries out and the main melody vaults into the music with an adventurous feeling, calling to mind justice beating out against a background of starlit skies.
Bursting notes shine with a feeling of unstoppable force while robotic voices move and the main melody captures me with its dynamism and bold enthusiasm. The synth solo is a flying thing, alive and wild as it breaks the bounds of gravity, while the pumping rhythm pushes forward. Clapping percussion moves as the main melody imbues the music with a sense of writing across the sky, ready to aid all in danger across the galaxy, before the track comes to an end.
Conclusion
Anime legends reborn surges with dynamism and a sense of wild excitement. All of the fantasy worlds and far-flung journeys that fill the music are brought vividly to life and make for a truly engaging listening experience.
