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ALIVE BEYOND RECOGNITION

Steve Tassler

 

Neo-Prog

3.00 | 3 ratings

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b_olariu
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3 stars Maybe Steve Tassler doesn't ring any bells when someone hear the name, but for sure he was and is one of the important musicians in prog field from USA in the '70s. Being part of famous Starcastle in their glory days from the '70s as a drummer and ocasionaly vocals.

After playing with Starcastle on first 4 albums, he left the band in 1980 and disappeared from musical scene until late'90s when decided to make a solo album. Well, his first and only one album under his name was released in 2002 named Alive beyond recognition. Steve compose and performed everything is on the album, the result being a good one from start to finish, a kind of melodic prog with hints to neo prog and nods to Starcastle aswell.

Pieces like Firebirght or Interregnum are brilliant and show Tassler in great form, his druming is more then ok most of the time and intresting aswell. The vocals and keyboards are also ok. This type of pieces can easely be compared with IQ style of neo prog.

So, all in all a fairly decent album, old style prog, I like it, even the album is widely unknown in prog circles I think desearves attention.

Solid 3 stars, in places 3.5 stars, a nice one.

b_olariu | 3/5 |

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