The one and only album from this band from USA.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, mandolin, keyboards, flute and vocals.
The band had help from numerous guests, including Steve Vai, on guitars, drums, woodwinds, strings, narrations and vocals.
This seventy minutes long album is an adoptation of T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock". It is a long poem found on Google for those interested in it. T.S Eliot was born in 1888 and passed away in 1965 as a Nobel lauriate (1948), poet, essayist, playwriter and publisher.
The The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock poetry was regarded as outlandish. I have read it and it is most certainly not a run-of-the-mill poem. It is out there as pretty.... outlandish anno these days too.
The music is not outlandish, though. It is a mix of neo-prog, AOR and symphonic prog. It is a bit of a run-of-the-mill piece of music.
The music is pastoral and does not have many good pieces. Neither is this a bad album. It is just lacking memorable tunes and pieces. It is a bit pedestrian and too safe.
When that is said, the musicians and vocalists knows their stuff and the songs are well crafted. This is by no means a substandard album.
It is a decent album though and well worth checking out.
2 points
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