BEYOND THE REACH OF DREAMS

A fine offering by this little reviewed band. Very pleasant to the ears and with rather distinctive vocals. Fans of symphonic prog will feel at ease from the start as the melodies are never offensive. The first couple of tracks are somewhat poppy for me. This album gets interesting with the third track Consequences II which pushes the envelope a bit more still maintaining a beautiful feel. This tracks is more adventurous than the previous and is a clear sign of things to come. The main course here track 5 and 6 clearly breaking new ground (at least on this album) the title track typical of neo-prog in my humble opinion a bit self righteous but still interesting and Zeta Reticula probably the best piece as far as composition. The musicianship is excellent and their second album keeps a promise of better things to come...talent is there all they need now is a touch more creativity to forge their masterpiece. Clocking below 40 minutes I believe they have plenty more to say and they have my interest going...

3.5 stars really

A long forgoten and totaly unknown name from USA - Lunar Chateau in ther short career they released only 2 albums. First in 1994 and second offer some years after in 2001 named Beyound the reach of dreams. The band was formed by brothers Sekulovitch - Novak on keyboards and vocals, Paul on bass and Milo on drums, all three done a good job here. The music is intresting, at least for my ears, is a cross between symphonic progressive rock with energic moments, spacey passages and some new age in parts moments, all three genres are well melted here for sure. 6 pieces are here all are more then ok minus the atmospheric track who is quite unintresting face the rest of the album. The music is based specially on keyboards with melodic energic passages and excellent musicianship, in places they remind me of another american obscurity named Tryptic who released their excellent Rabble Gadgets Divine few years back. Anyway good towards great album, little known in prog circles. some very fine and quite catchy parts here. 3.5 stars for sure.