WINDOW TO THE SOUL

GPS is a kinda super group, formed out of the ashes of Asia (John Payne on vocals, Jay Schellen on drums), Guthrie Govan also played in Asia on guitar and future The Aristocrats member) and Spockțs Beard keybordist Ryo Okumoto. These 4 great musicians recorded and released one album in 2006 named Window to the soul. Well, this is a solid hard rock/progressive metal/rock album, the playing is tight and the vocals aswell are good, Paynes voice is great for such music. Pieces are quite longer then on usual hard rock/AOR album, some of them are over 8 min, where the musicians simply shine, well developed arrangements and the progressions are all over, this is a nice progressive hard rock album.

There are some fantastic keyboards and overall musicinship is top, like on opening title track Window to the Soul, New Jerusalem or Written On the Wind.

All in all a nice one, definetly can be checked by prog fans, even those who are more towards hard rock can take a listen without hesitation.