The 18th album from this band from Ukraine.
This is in reality a one man band with Antony Kalugin doing all keyboards and some percussion, guitars, bass and vocals.
He had help from some guests who added drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, saxophones and vocals.
The maestro, for this is what Antony Kalugin really is, has taken Karfagen through some phases and genres since the debut album was released back in 2006. All of the phases has been centered around symphonic prog and neo-classical music.
This album is not a radical departure from the previous seventeen albums.
The saxophone adds some cool jazz here. This comes a bit unexpected too. As a follower of this band, I am more used to symph prog and neo-classical music. The jazz is cool enough and not eclectic. It does not really add much quality to this album as it feels a bit too odd for this band and music.
Most of these forty-five music is mid to slow tempo cinematic music. Lots of piano around. It is supported by guitars and the saxophone.
We also gets some Pink Floyd/David Gilmour like songs here. Both female and male vocals.
The music is a bit too wishy-washy and this album does not bring is much interesting stuff.
This is a fairly good album, but nothing more than that. This album is not the maestro's finest hour.
2.5 points
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