THE MAD MONK AND THE MOUNTAIN

This is a very good and enjoyable album and surely Colin Masson is a skillful and talented musician (although not very prolific). It would definitely deserve four stars if not for its lack of originality; in fact the sounds and the atmospheres resemble way too closely those of Mike Oldfield (you have the feeling of being in front of a music clone after listening to TMMATM)! It would be appropriate that Colin Masson could free himself from this (noble) musical model and began to explore his own way since it has both technical and artistic skills to do so. I'm looking forward with great interest to his next work, which I hope will be more original than this one. My final rating: 3 stars.