NIGHT DREAMS & WISHES

This album of Modern-Rock Ensemble happened to be a lot different from the previous one "Touch the Mystery". "Night Dreams & Wishes" is much more complicated, being a 78 minute suite, however it's very interesting for me how the themes are developing and floating from one instrument to another. There is much more electric guitar by Max Velychko in this album and aggressive duos with synths. In general this album is much heavier then it's predecessor and I love it, especially Gladiators, Want Some More, Dark Kingdom and the Evil King, Schooldays. However, there are as well calm, beautiful and nice songs with strings, Mellotron and flute: Night Comes. Dreams, Nostalgia, Wake Up. Integration of a flute in this album worked well for me, especially in Insomnia. Vladimir invited in his big team Enver Izmailov and Enver's tapping guitar added a lot of ambience and colors to this album. I will further listen to the suite to analyze and further understand Vladimir's comments and linear notes, but would like to put full 5 stars to this strong album.