LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN

My favourite album of all time, it is just blazing music and every note of this is perfection. It's a heavy album for 1976 with the music scene changing and more bands approaching into more mainstream music with a shining example being Chicago with starting with that big band jazz rock sound. This is obviously my favourite Al Di Meola performance on this, his tone through the whole album is so raw and intense and screechy and so powerful. My top Di Meola songs on here easily, I would have no problem putting in The Wizard, Suite: Golden Dawn, Short Tales Of The Black Forest and the title track of course are all way up there. Even the classical interlude & a weird mythical hippie cult song I absolutely love. This for would be the peak of Al Di Meola as with most Fusion bands and artists don't quite have it together on the debut but this is definitely one of the greatest ever made. The Al Di Meola sound is fused as Neoclassical Latin Metal Fusion that he does is fully formed on here, notably with the Wizard with just incredible, it's so fast & frantic. Very good production on here, not quite as good as Elegant Gypsey but still nothing to complain about at all. I adore the intensity and creativity on this as it is very proggy in areas with having two really long compositions with nearly ten minutes long.

In conclusion, this album is mostly not preferred over Elegant Gypsy but giving it that, it is still up there with on of the great Fusion album of the later part of the 70s.

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