THE HUMAN ELEMENT

Albums like THE HUMAN ELEMENT are more and more rare!WHY/Because it's so difficult-in my humble opinion-to compose almost 45 minutes of music at such hig level of inspiration and to offer to the amateurs of the genre a compact album with no weak pointsThat's what TONY SPADA did with THE HUMAN ELEMENT!It's jazz rock,it's fusion,it's progressive and it's symphonic in the same time too!!!What else can we ask for? Brilliant,crystal clear production for an album made by a real pro which deliver here his huge talent on an album that plenty worth to be in the collection of any instrumental jazz rock music fan!ROB GOTTFRIED and TONY CASTELLANO are giving a strong hand to TONY to push the boundaries of an instrumental album close to perfection!Of course,we cannot avoid the comparation with Steve Morse,which is still a major influence for Mr Spada,but our hero has his own personality and compositional there is nothing more to say!Difficult to put in evidence one or two particular songs,let's say that the hightlights of the album are INTRUDERS and MILE HIGH,but the other are stellar too!Pure musical wizzardry! Check the new HOLDING PATTERN 2007 cd -BREAKING THE SILENCE and you'll discover Tony Spada at a new atomic componistic level !A revelation! 4,5 STARS for a masterful album!

Second studio album was issued after 12 years after previous release. Named The Human element released in 2005 ia anothe rexample of serious work in progressive rock music. Helped again by Tony Castellano responsable for bass and keybords and Tony with guitar of course , this album is little more towards jazz fusion/rock and less synphonic like first one. Again no weak moments here, great interplay between guitarand keybords. Pieces are now less lenghy and more direct where the guitar realy took of to another dimension, musicaly speaking like on Jack The Hat or Trcick shows, the rest are also great and well performed. Fans of guitar prog orientaed album must take a listen because worth every second. While I prefer first album who was for me little better and more intristing then this one, The human element keeps the flag high in instrumental albums history. Again few reviews and few ratings, realy shame because both albums with a plus on first are real treasures. 3.5 rounded to 4 this time.