INSPIRATIONS

The debut album by this new Norwegian project lead by Arild Brøter, an ex drummer in Lucifer Was. Arild Brøter got help from a lot of other musicians on this album.

The music here genre wise miles away from Lucifer Was though. Inspirations is a keyboard and guitar solos driven instrumental album. It has a lot of Camel and Pink Floyd in it. The music here also gives me a lot of associations to Little Tragedies and other Russian keyboards drenched prog albums.

The music is good throughout. The problem is the lack of identity, soul and "bite" in the music. This album balances too close to the muzak genre at times. But the tunes are good and the musicians does a very good job here. But some identity and some more dynamics would not go amiss on the follow up album which is currently in the making. Just a hint.......

3 stars