STRATUS LUNA

Fans of instrumental prog rock, may I have your attention please. Four young guys from Brasil offer on this release seven compositions which I would never believe they could go hand-in-hand with their age. They are too mature, balancing in a very elegant way between the prototype prog sound and the modern one with some occasional fusion and even jazz touches thrown in. More than that, they don't sound derivative in the slightest. Although entirely instrumental, forget about endless soloing, these are actual compositions where the lack of vocals goes by unnoticed since the listener is always engaged into humming a melody. Aside the core instruments, their pallette includes the flute and the sitar, although not widely used. Excluding NREM-1 which, to my ears, isn't a fully fledged composition but a bridge between Pandas Voadores and On'rica, all other six compositions are replete with wonderful melodies and time changes which keep the interest, most of the times, intact and I'm saying this because just occasionaly, to my ears, some parts don't flow too naturally and that's the reason why I don't rate it any higher. It is an album that for six years now is a regular companion of mine and I would heartily recommend it not only, as I said at the beginning, to the fans of instrumental music, but to all progressive listeners.

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