The second solo album from this artist from USA.
Frank Wyatt did the synths and piano here. He had help from numerous friends who added drums, percussion, bass, guitars, sitar, synths, keyboards and vocals.
Frank Wyatt was a founding member of Happy The Man and Oblivion Sun. He sadly passed away earlier this year.
Zeitgeist is regarded as his best solo album. It is a tour de force in what he as a musician did and stood for.
Hence, this album gives us an hour full of contrasts.
The opening pieces of music is fusion. Some good fusion too and there are some Canterbury prog in these pieces of music too. Then we get a pretty bland and not so interesting song. A musicals type of song. It is bold ballad but it has not much going for it.
The final part is a piece, a suite called Perelandra. This piece of music is somewhere between neo-classical music, ambient and symphonic prog. There is some ELP in this suite. But most of the music in this four piece long suite is pretty pedestrian.
Half of this one hour long album is good and the rest is decent. Hence my reservations.......
2.5 points
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