The debut album from this band from USA.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, mandolin, violin and vocals.
The band was started by the jazz violinist Joe Deninzon who released some solo albums with the likes of Alex Skolnick from Testament. Jazz albums, not thrash metal albums....
After a live album together with Alex in 2006, an album released as a solo album, Joe formed Stratospheerius and the band has so far released four albums. The latest one was released earlier this year, in 2024.
I reviewed their second album, the 2012 album The New World back in September 2012 for # 1 of this blog and liked it a lot. Then I found their new album and their debut and their third album too. This trio of albums will be reviewed this winter, starting with this review.
The music here is a mix of funk, jazz, americana and progressive rock.
There is a lot of Jean Luc Ponty in Joe's violin and the jazzy and funky parts of this three quarters of an hour long album. A lot of really complex, fast music.
The band slows the music down inbetween the faster music and they then does a mix of old classical progressive rock and americana.
The vocals are good and the band, with Joe being the star, is doing a superb job.
The result is a good album and an album who deserve some more attention as a result of the release of a new album. This is indeed a very good band.
3 points
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