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Hi Steve. As ever, many thanks for your kind words. Drama was not played in the Lazland house for many years. I think moving forward, it will come off the shelf occasionally. As you can imagine, I mainly put new music on every day, this an inevitable consequence of reviewing new music, but I do set aside at least one afternoon and evening to listen to my personal collection, and Drama will feature. It is not a terrible album and having listened to it a lot this past couple of weeks, I am better disposed towards it.

First up is Yes, with Drama (this is a two-part video, with 90125 to follow next month). I hated it. Does my 2024 self still have those emotions.

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Your thoughtful insights on 'Sleepers' are incredibly precise and ring true! Yes, there is a story behind each song told with few words as possible.  Although I prefer the myths to the facts about the Princess of Tisul and Celia Valdez, making my take on their story's pure fiction.  (Because you can do that with only a Song title and some music)! 

I love you Lazland!

All kidding aside...

 Thank you very much for the kind review.  I am well aware of how "outside the box" this album is, but that's the only way we can hope to break new ground, It's a mission of mine and many other musicmakers, although I am guided in spirit by Prog, Avant, & experimental masters of the past...  As you can probably hear.

 The next album will feature more of Kalvin as he is finishing up a Master's degree and is way too busy at the moment.  He is 24 years old and an amazing guitarist and has never heard of Fripp or King Crimson

 (I set the old VOX tube Amp for STUN, and he magically delivered) ... 

 He has been in some thrash metal bands, He sites Bonamassa and Metallica as his influences, and he has been dating my daughter for the past 3 years, lol.  I just love the kid, and I know he will bring much needed new magic to these future projects. What he did on sleepers he did unrehearsed in one take... roughly 30 minutes of home studio time, While I was out back barbequing chicken. 

Again, I publicly thank you for taking time to review all of the artists in the fold... You make people happy.

Cheers Steve! There will be at least one additional track played in the June Ruminations video.

Thank you, Steve. Really kind of you to say that. I think it is fair to say that I am now starting to get the hang of this video editing lark - in production terms, this is easily the best I have done thus far.

I am starting to plan the next series as we speak, which I hope will be an interesting watch re revisiting old reviews/albums. I think the first one will be Yes Drama and 90125.

First up is a wonderful slab of jazz-fusion from French multi-instrumentalist, Tom Penaguin, pretty much essential for those of you who like a bit of  the Canterbury-flavoured prog.

Second is a belter of an album from Polish outfit, Amarok with their latest, Hope. It is essential listening.

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