A PLACE IN THE QUEUE

Best Symphonic Prog Album of the year?... Almost there...

Current prog listeners need FUSION, theres so much music to listen to nowadays, why not fusion the best of all into a single album?... You can start with The Tangent.

The lyrics play a HUGE roll in the album; Andy Tillison has an incredible sense of modern concepts making his albums very realistic on matters that affect us all.

Getting into the lyrics is easy since the music behind it is incredible, i mean the Jazzy sections makes The Tangent one of the final steps on symphonic prog appreciation. Though theres a lot of progressive "booms" sections, especially soloings on In Earnest (One of my favourite tracks of all times) ...

What makes this record amazing is the artistic ambience it has fusioned with progressive rock; it has opened new doors in the genre by adding modern fusions, interesting thoughts about real problems we face and my favourite ingredient Jazz.

Every musician just brought to this record one of their best inspired thoughts..Manning, Travis, Baine . it was like this holy bag, and they started throwing their wealth in there, making it invaluable...

5 Stars for bringing it in times we really need this kind of concepts and to feel we are not robots...we face a new dimension of techonology advancement and stress as we search for meaning in our lives and is very important that artists choose to explore these concepts, thats why The Tanget music is special.

I believe this record contains the necessary ingredients that are listed on a "work of art", and it will be interesting to review them.

This is a list by Mark Rothko to acknowledge what I mean :

There must be a clear

PREOCCUPATION WITH DEATH - intimations of mortality....Tragic art, romantic art, etc. deals with the knowledge of death.

SENSUALITY. Our basis of being concrete about the world. It is a lustful relationship to things that exist.

TENSION. Either conflict or curbed desire.

IRONY. This is a modern ingredient-the self effacement and examination

WIT and PLAY....for the human element.

The EPHEMERAL and CHANCE....for the human element.

HOPE. 10% to make the tragic concept more endurable.

Think about it...

Highly Recommended!