EURHYBIA

1. The Tightrope Walker (7:20) 2. Nightmare (6:08) 3. Peace Of Mind (Journey Into Yourself) (5:41) 4. Eurhybia (Instrumental) (3:27) 5. Soldiers Of Misery (7:55) 6. Power Against Power (5:48) 7. House Of Cards (Instrumental) (8:23)

Hmmmmm, I recently had the opportunity to listen to this again after many many years. I thought that maybe, my original thoughts on this album might have been too hasty. Unfortuneately not. I'm giving this album only 1 star, not because it is all rubbish, but because a small proportion of it is actually very very good. Or rather, I think it is.

Take the first track, The Tightrope Walker. The first 2:30 instrumental introduction is quite fantastic, reminding of Pallas at their very best. But then the vocals kick in. The problem here is mainly that there is no recognisable melody.

The same is true of the next two tracks, but there is no redeeming instrumental intro.

Track 4, the title track, is entirely instrumental and this is rather good, althought just a little bit clumsy in execution.

Track 6 mirrors track 1. This time just 2 minutes of wonderful music at the start.

I had hopes that the final instrumental, as the longest track, would show some signs of life, but to me it almost sounds improvised. Keyboards parp all over the place seemingly at random. Only towards the end does some kind of structure emerge, but not enough to save it. For free-form jazz fans only!

Just my opinion of course.