ONE

A man with a gift - Neal Morse has something special. I don't mean his faith - it's not interesting for me: he has the gift of melody making, and crafting superb music. He demonstrated it with Spock's Beard, and he continued with his solo works. This ONE, I've got to comment it, just to tell how you will go thorough an unparalleled set of musical emotions: this album is so alternately heart-tearing, energetic, reflective, aggressive, tender, anthemic,...and so greatly produced and polished, with a full array of instrumentation that is so exhilarating symphonic prog...(it could stand as a perfect pitch definition for the definition of symphonic prog genre itself). A few times I'm asking myself if this 80min-opus is too long and if could benefit for having being slightly shorter...naaah! Why ever? Repeated listenings are so easy going and rewarding! Excellent drumming (not overindulgent as sometimes happens to him) by M.Portnoy - 4,5 stars indeed!!!