BLACK AND WHITE

Lee Abraham is a british progressive rock multi instrumentalist with a respectable solo career for little more then 15 years, but aswell he was part in Galahad line-up 4 years (2005-2009) on bass duties and backing vocals. Being fan of Dream Theater and Spock's Beard he embraced progressive rock/metal genre.

His solo career begun in 2002 with releasing his first album in 2003 Pictures in the hall, well recived by all prog circles. View from the bridge is the second offer (guest appearances apear Karl Groom and famous keyboard player Martin Orford) and is my fav album from his catalogue so far.

Third album saw the light in 2009 named simple Black and white. Well, this is a worthy album for sure, neo prog combined with some heavier sections closer to prog metal, it's obvious this direction because the engineer and mastering is no one else then Karl Groom (the guitar player from progressive metal band Threshold and a respected long time neo prog fan and composer of this genre).

A nice combination of neo prog with some prog metal elements thrown in in places specially on pieces like Face the crowd or Black. There are lots of instrumental sections well played, well composed, with very nice guitar parts, my fav being for sure Black, a 14 min pure dellight, the duelings between keyboards and guitars are exemplary. Lots of well known musicians help Abraham on this one, the omni present Gerald Mulligan on drums from Credo fame (another overlooked neo prog band) who will be present on every Lee Abraham solo album from now on, Dean Baker on keyboards from Galahad, Gary Chandler on vocals from Jadis, John Mitchell on guitar from Jadis and Arena and more top notch musicians involved and of course Lee Abraham responsable for bass, guitar parts and keyboards.

All in all a very strong album, I like all albums he release across the years and this one is no diffrent, Black and white desearve attention, Lee Abraham is a gifted musicians always done a good job on every album. 3.5 stars for sure.