ALONE

After a few years of existence the great Polish band Collage split up, a sad moment in prog history. In don't know about the reasons so I can't put the blame on anything or anyone. What came next was their great successor Satellite and the "solo-project" Mr. Gil. The last sentence already shows that my favourite of these two is Satellite, who produced two excellent albums but the one I'm reviewing here, Alone by Mr. Gil, is unfortunately of a different calibre. I tried to love it because I wanted to and that had of course something to do with Collage; but I must admit I haven't succeeded. It's a bit of a mellow, quite romantic album, sometimes nice but actually a little bit poor. I judge it of course also to the standard of Collage and that's a high standard but even if I would't do that I would come to this conclusion. It's in fact 2.5 stars and out of respect I round up to 3.