LIQUID TRIO EXPERIMENT: SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION

This album attract my attention because of few serious reasons. First of all, there plays a great King Crimson bassist Tony Levin. Than, there play two most interesting Dream Theatre musicians - Mike Portnoy (dr.), and Jordan Rudess (keyb.). And after all, there are not participated two most boring persons from DT - LaBrie and Petrucci.

From all this looked that the album has a chance to be interesting. Not a endless boring DT regular release, but possibly different one. And this work is different! First of all there isn't guitar at all in this recording. For good and bad, but whenever most possible guitarist for participation was Petrucci, I prefer guitar-less music. Than, there are just some energetic level coming from metal world, nothing else. The music itself is experimental instrumental heavy fusion. And there are such components used as funky groove, neo-classic pieces, nu.jazz electronic ambient sounds,etc. All this mix is perfectly framed by great Levin bass line.

During the listening you can feel that music there are mostly improv, but three strong musicians are playing great jam there! I believe that main problem with this album is very different target group from usual DT fans. So, too often this album was in wrong hands, and not enough really experimental music lovers just noticed it.

By the way, I believe that this album should be placed under own project name ( "Liquid Trio Experiment") and for sure not in Prog Metal section. If changes will be done, you will see how much higher rating it will receive!

Really recommended for heavy fusion and experimental instrumental rock fans.