TIME OF LEGENDS

Three years after the excellent Conflict And Dreams album, Cairo returned with Time Of Legends. While this third album of theirs is a bit more diverse and varied, it is also less powerful and less memorable. With Conflict And Dreams, Cairo gave me the impression that they were screaming in my ears "Listen to us!! We are over the top and really very talented and our music is super great!!". With Time Of Legends they seem to want to tell us something much more modest: "You can listen to us if you want, we are quite alright". The music is still good here and it is an enjoyable listen, but certainly some of the passion and fire of Conflict And Dreams is sadly lost.

By some people a bit less of the Emerson Lake & Palmer-inspired bombast is probably considered a good thing, but in this case I think something important has gone amiss. That bombast was a large part of what made Conflict And Dreams so great. On the present album, they even give us a couple of quite understated almost New-Age like instrumental passages (though, one of which suddenly bursts into an intense Toccata-like passage). The vocals are also less passionate somehow.

After the release of this album, Cairo would disappear without a trace leaving the fans without any information of their whereabouts. Time will tell if they will ever make a comeback.

Time Of Legends remains a pretty good and pleasant album, but slightly disappointing after the powerful Conflict And Dreams.

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