CORVUS STONE II

Corvus Stone a multi national band with talented musicians formed around 2012 and releasing so far 2 albums. The newest is named simply II issued this year 2014. Responsable for what is to be heared here is Koivu the keybordist who managing to come with a pleasent album, constructed on same coordonates as previous album and with same attitude. There are many type of prog elements here, from crossover prog to spacey moments not far from Hawkwind fame special on piece Boots of hire, neo prog partscombined with more symphonic ones, but the result is quite ok, even far from great, at least to my ears. The re are some good pieces as one I've mentioned Boots of hire , instrumental "candinavians in Mexico and few more. Aswell there are some invited guests as Blake Carpenter from The Minstr's Ghost, Sean Filkins,Phil Naro from Druckfarben , German Vergara from Aisles or Victor Tassone from United Past. All in all a well rounded album, good in many parts, specially the first half of the album is better then the second for sure, but as I said is far from masterpiece status as many pretend to be, really. 3 stars , maybe rounded to 3.5 in places. Intresting art work.