ASTRA

Of course- this is not the best album from ASIA but it's a good one to have. It's not as good as second album "Alpha" but I still enjoy this album. It's not because of Steve Howe was out that made this album less attractive. The Asia music does not require a guitar player as good as Steve Howe. Mandy Meyer was the name I never heard before but he was doing fine with this third album of Asia. Again, the band gave me good track "GO" from this album. It's basically a simple and straight forward track with nice guitar riffs and sampling drum (or it sounds like that). It's a typical wake-up call track for me that I keep repeating it because the riffs and the melody. Really good to me.

The other good track is "Voice of America" even though it's poppy stuff. Even though it's not as good as previous two albums, I also converted my collection from cassette to CD because some tracks favor me. It's not a bad album but it serves really good for fans / collector. Keep on proggin' ..!

Progressively yours, GW