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The album opens with a texture that sets the overall tone for what's following: an unambiguously jazzy, very elegant, piano lead evolving over a folk-tinged percussion. According to a remark left by Sven B. Schreiber in their Bandcamp page, "odd metrics are not an invention of the prog rock era. In balkanska muzika, they are something natural". Of course, departing from that point, the music eventually developes into passages more clearly recognizable as progressive: listen the guitar chordal structures in the opener, and the superb bass lead near the end of "Rite". After reaching a brilliant climax in this track, the music stagnates on a pretty foreseeable course, already incapable of surprise, but even so, with moments of great musicianship, like the second half of "Heartbeat", yet being the voice in the closer the weaker spot.

A good one, considering the average.