Title: Instrumentalists, not musicians
Product review: I tried, I REALLY tried to like this album. I've been looking for good jazz rock, prog rock or whatever you want to call it. So after having read the RAVE reviews on this web site I bought the album. It is true that these guys can play; the mastery over their instruments is truly virtuosic. But for my taste they lacked musical ideas. Regular I, IV, V progressions played with astonishing virtuosity. But just no real SOUL to the music. No themes, no well-crafted melodic shape, just a flurry of notes for the sake of it. If you are looking for something with strong melodies, interesting modulations that are integral to the structure of the music rather than tacked on, something that bears repeated listening, this ain't it. We have a word for this sort of music in England; Fretwanking. Empty virtuosity. I'll give my copy away.
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