BOOMERANG

Looking back 10 years in 1996 to an album I discovered just a view months ago, I need to write some words on this. I got this record from a friend who was a part of the "Prog Scene" in Germany some years ago. First of all I couldn´t believe that this was coming from Germany. These guys did really a good performance in terms of innovative musician ship and songwriting. Very good balance of instrumental and vocal phases. Very good drumming and good rythm section at all - listen to all these odd time signatures grooves without having the feeling of a real 9/8, 6/8, 5/4 or whatever beat. Good sounding production ( I think this is low budet selfmade ) and very good keyboard/piano and guitar work. The voice is not my favorite and sometime also a little bit flat. But overall this is a great modern prog album which can be seen at an eye to eye level with records out of the same decade of bands like Dreamtheater, Spocks Beard or Cairo. I think they band shows a lot of influences from "classic prog" like Yes and Genesis up to a mixture of Rock/Jazz Fusion. Especially tracks like "edging the tongue" and "Boomerang" are having a great intensity and very good lyrics. As far as I know this was the last album of the band - too bad !!! It would have been really interesting to find ou how their music would sound today - I would assume somewhere between Spocks Beard and Porcupine Tree.

Ritchie