CROSSING THE LINE

With unequivocal reference to the work of CAMEL, ASIA MINOR's debut album is a great album of instrumental and atmospheric beauty (as is their second album). "Crossing The Line" is full of fluid and cascading music with gentle vocals and harmonies. This album is dripping in analog space keyboard vibes, flutes galore, interesting bass and guitar lines and complex drumming. This pastel prog rock album blends Turkish folk and ethnic influences with CAMEL-like progressive rock symphonia. I would offer that this album is a pure bread crossing of the music style of France's "ATOLL" and might I add "CAMEL". Again the lush and nostalgic vocals of Setrak Bakirel (lead vocals, guitars and basses) when used are quite nice and are sung mostly in English (2 tracks sung in native Turkish).