LAST AUTUMN'S DREAM

Probably the main problem which the newcomer to this album stumbles with, being a fervent proghead, is that the musicians here were determined not to stay strictly within the boundaries of the Prog genre, but rather to verge on the fringe of its difuse frontier with Art-rock. What sort of things did they find and collect there? Well, that makes for a long and extremely varied list, so I will pick up just a couple of examples, in order to prevent boring the reader.

In the first place, there's a very beautiful, sustained and textured electric guitar tone going all over the instrument's range, and recurring along the entire album, which undoubtedly makes a lot for the prog aspect of it.

Regarding the art-trending side of the equation, I can point my finger to the ethnic elements, such as the contributed by the japanese woodwinds, and also to some occasional big amount of electric feedback, that goes beyond the normal and rather polished idea of what a prog guitar should sound like. I also feel compelled to find something balancing right in the middle of both genres, and that would be some very angular guitar riffs attacking here and there.

Summing up: really enjoyable, specially if you concentrate more in the product and less in the formula.