Started as a project, featuring ex-"Rain Fell Within" members (John Battema - Keys and Charles Gore - Bass), Ephemeral Sun was my choice to become the best band and the best album from June, 2010, because they are a band that has a very strong musical potential, and it will be interesting to follow their new career go from here. First up, the members came from Northern Virginia, USA, and the group was fronted by Soprano Laurie-Ann Haus, where the band's influences tended toward Art-Rock to the Melodic Progressive Metal, something in the style of a "Nightwish", "After Forever", "Within Temptation" and "The Gathering". After changes in line-up, and also mainly in the influences and music style, Ephemeral Sun finally found their identity and a special musical signature, from the second album, the band started to develop an incredible and amazing Progressive Rock. Ephemeral Sun and "Harvest Aorta" are a perfect marriage, the instrumental is fantastic, all arrangements are dominate by guitar solos, together with incredible symphonic keyboards, powerful's drums and a vibrant bass. "Harvest Aorta" contains four amazing tracks and totaly instrumental, almost 70min of pure Progressive Rock, that keep the listener a high interest from beginning to end.  
In fact, Ephemeral Sun are a perfect combination, that is sensitive to all fans from the Progressive music generation, with strong influences from the years 70, full of brilliant melodies and superb musical performances. The music from the band, follows in the same style and influences such as the bands "Camel", "Yes", "Coda", "Genesis", "Like Wendy", "Jethro Tull", "Finch", "Lady Lake", "Egdon Heath", "Novalis", "Odyssice", "Anekdoten",  "Porcupine Tree", "Transatlantic" and many other Progressive Rock bands that we know and love. Brilliant, fantastic, and an amazing album and band, highly recommendable...
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