FROM SCRATCH

FROM SCRATCH is the latest musical offering from the great Danish musician-Robin Taylor!It's a new album under many aspects and I must say,from the beginning,that I was really impressed by the freshness and new breeze of the musical message on this album!Starting with an uptempo song-OTHER MEETINGS,a quite unusual rhythmed composition for Mr Taylor ,the album continues in a very inspired note,with the wonderful track BETA X...and so on.Well,definitelly,there is a Robin Taylor trademark in music,and this album doesn't make any exception of the rule !The wonderful,crystallyne production is a major plus for an already very inspired musical material!I sincerelly adore the great work on sax provided by the faithful collaborator Karsten Vogel and the wonderful vocal interventions of some great female vocalists.The whole ensemble is a very solid one,the rich orchestration imagined by the musical genius of Robin Taylor is extremelly well organized and offer to the listeners great sonic landscapes...or audio landscapes!This mesmerising music is putting you in a very melancholic mood,it gives you a whole frame of free imagination,to travel with your mind wherever you dream to go!All compositions are quite long-only one is under he 3 minutes timing!Definitelly,FROM SCRATCH is another brilliant album made by a very inspired musician of our days,and shows at 100 % the fact that progressive music has endless ways of expression,and offers a huge,wide range of musical expressions to his fans !!The timing of the album is perfect too-almost 45 minutes of solid RIO/AVANT PROG music,music for open minded listeners ,good quality music!In the end the reward is more than marvelous-the feeling and satisfaction of the audition of a great album,rich in it's musical expressions and meanings!One more thing,the cover looks great,a post apocaliptic image of an abandoned factory structure at the end of civilization ,connected to the world by a railway.....and somehow it reminds me a little something related to the fall of the communism...an abandoned factory in a forgotten corner of the civilized world...but there is still a connection to the world,made by the railway.....The strange colour of the sun is great too....it's an undefined twillight.....!!!4.50 solid stars from me and a sincere BRAVO to the author!