BRAINSTORM OF EMPTYNESS

Cristiano Roversi has been the driving force behind MOONGARDEN for years. In the liner notes he says: "This record is dedicated to a great musician and master, who gave me incredible deep emotions in the last 20 years. Go on Andy, I still need to dream". "Roversi for Latimer". This is MOONGARDEN's second album and the big improvement over the debut is in the vocals. The new vocalist has a fairly deep voice but he can change his sound at will as tszirmay mentions in his review.

This is a concept album with the vocals in English. The drawback for me is the length at well over 71 minutes. Too bad because I really enjoy several of the tracks here, but overall I have to settle with 3 stars. Quite a bit more sampled mellotron too when compared to the debut, and also I was reminded of IQ and GENESIS a few times so that Neo- Prog flavour is stronger on this one which I like.

I have to mention the song "Sonya In Search Of The Moon : Alone In The Nightfield" because the mellotron floods in and covers everything. It's so moving.

This is a good album and worth checking out.