ÎN UMBRA MARELUI URSS

Is hard for me give only 2 stars for this album, but after my opinion, after the progressive rock standards it not deserve more than two. Also this album is more a Nicu Covaci album, than a Phoenix album. Whit the except of the song "Numai una" who is song by a pop-rock romanian duo Talisman. This song suppose to be the radio friendly song who will sell the album, and it had some success. Artistically is possible the minimum of the Phoenix and Nicu Covaci artistic work. The lyrics of the song are composed by a very talented romanian poet from the early twenty century George Cosbuc.

The only song that could be mentioned as a good one are the instrumental "Balada" who was composed by a classical romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu as a violin concert, (the guitar work is really great), "In Umbra Marelui Urs" (who has very personal lyrics about the disappointments that Nicu Covaci feel after he return to Romania and find here the same character) and the very short one "Ceata II", who had very funny lyrics.