GENESIS

Do you know this phenomena, or how to call it, that when listening to a particular song you remember what you were doing or where you were or just the atmosphere of the occasion you listened to that particular song for the first time? I just love music for the capacity to bring me back to my childhood and teenage years. For me, it is like going through old family pictures.

If there is a reason to listen to Genesis, it is because of Peter Gabriel, but if you asked me what Genesis is, I would say that THIS is Genesis. When I was little I knew that my father used to listen to Genesis or Phil Collins, but I didn't like much his voice. Only when I was teenager, I gave Genesis a try with Wembley concert from 1986 and just after that I learned about Peter Gabriel era. And every time I listen to the first half of this album I have a feeling that that's exactly what my father used to listen to when I was a toddler - Mama and Home By the Sea.

IMO, in the 70's, Prog and Genesis as well based their music on the skills or musicianship and the proper sound holding together throughout the whole album. It used to be constructed as cathedrals. In the 80, the depth mostly disappeared and was replaced with the stress on the sound. Each song was different, different atmospere, different drumming or synthesizers. For me, it was about bringing the right and unprecedented sound as a base for a song. I think that the best example is 90125 by Yes and the ABWH album - 90125 is very colourful, each song is different, different idea, different sound, whereas ABWH is like a cathedral, prog created in 80's, with the 80's sound, but no stress whatsoever on the sound, the style, the coolness. I don't want to say which one was better way to go on in the 80', for me it is a personal choice and here I just like those little experiments; and unlike with Abacab, they hold nicely together in one piece.

Mama, Home By the Sea, Silver Rainbow, It's Gonna Get Better and That's All, they are just good imaginative songs and that's it.