THE WHIRLWIND

I shall Refer you to J-Man's excellent review for the track by track synopsis. He has it spot on. Now I shall attempt to add my two-penneth. This was an eagerly awaited release as the other two TA studio CD's were excellent and each worth a minimum of five stars. The Whirlwind - a 78 minute track (the non proggies at work were guffawing and coming out with all the old "Wizards hat skater;s on ice" dogma...oh well) SEVENTY EIGHT MINUTES and it's awesome......Muscianship so tight you couldnt penetrate it with a titanium spear, memorable harmonies and themes and Guitar work so excellent it would make a pickled onion weep. The standout track is "is it really happening" - music that reached all the right prog synapses in my brain....The main theme is loosely based on Promenade by Mussorgsky and this is reprised in the bombastic ending. The only irritation is that Mr Morse seems hell-bent on ramming his dark-age religious delusion down our collective throats, sort of preaching via prog. I shall chose to take another more darwinian interpretation of the Whirlwind - I shall consider it a metaphor for the gene-pool and the master is in fact the blind-watchmaker - which is the non- random selection of mutated genes...There I feel better already FIVE STARS............