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This is Elegant Simplicity's 10:th album and it's all
instrumental. The 8 pages CD-booklet contains many fantastic
coloured pictures made by the multi-instrumentalist Steven McCabe,
who also has composed and arranged all the songs. Each page
contains a collection of pictures on the theme that represents the
mood in each song.
The album contains music that is a mix of romantic, melodic heavy
rock, progressive rock, symphonic rock, fusion, folk, jazz and
orchestral themes that are going through constant changes. This is
also a little step forward from the 1997 years album "Reversal Of
Time", even though it's a little too poppy for this genre. The
influences you can hear are Camel, ELP, IQ, Jethro Tull, Kitaro,
Mike Oldfield, Anthony Phillips and Rick Wakeman. Steven McCabe is
no guitar virtuoso, but he has a very beautiful way of playing and
he is doing some great solos. The drummer though is a little bit
lame in his playing. Unfortunately this is affecting the overall
impression of the album in a negative way. Still this is a very
good album that is growing maturer with every listening. It not a
radio friendly album considering the songs and the length of every
track.
The best tracks are "Tranquility And Drift" and "Aching Desire".
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