ILLUMINATIONS

Glass from USA has a very long career with up and many downs and their first incarnation dated from mid '70's. I know this band for some years and now I decided to give some spins of two of thir albums I have. One of them is Illumination from 2005 issued by Musea. Well, the intro Overture is really nice, lots of keybords and elegant arrangements, really good and the pieces flows very good from one to another. The album has 3 sections first is The Secret Life Of Aqua J. Long who contains 3 pieces, the best from the album, at least for me, is the most up beat part of the album with strong musicianship, mellotron and very good drums. The second section is Electronic Synaesthasia who has 3 pieces, this is the most calm and mid tempo almost slow pieces of the album with space atmosphere, jazzy interplays, ot band but nothing really great as the fist part of the album. The third section Alchemy Of The World who has 6 pieces is the most experimental in arrangements, from jazzy arts to symphonic moments all in good measure just to be pleasent for the listner, not bad at all but again not the best part of the album. All in all an intresting symphonic/space album with good passages,, but I don't think is quite impressive overall, has some very nice moements and musicinship is great in some parts, but because the most of the album is almost mid tempo to slow I can't give a very big rate and many stars, to me is a 3 stars album, good but far from being really excelent.