THE INCONSOLABLE SECRET

My favourite album, or shall I say, double album, by Glass Hammer. I find it long but still well developed and balanced. Music is accessible, to both occasional prog listener and typical retro-prog fan. The first CD is grandiose, with perfect blend of symphonic prog atmosphere and keyboard virtuoso playing. Singing is melodic and quite fitting into overall scenery. The second track is a great classic prog-rock epic. The second CD offers a wider stylistic palette including a bold classical music inspired piece "Long and long ago", pastoral "Lirazel", medieval "Merridan's song", gloomy soundtrack "Walking toward doom", ELP workout on "Mog ruith", highly catchy "Through a glass darkly" towards the grandiose code on "Having caught a glimpse"

You may object to this album not bringing anything new from Glass Hammer nor enriching the prog rock upper echelon but it's a really well executed album.