MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

A good promise it was, then not maintained!!But-apart from this consideration- I remark the role of Mr Gary Chandler alone at the composition, whose main leading harmonic solutions become boring at the end,being quite prolix too: the reason is that Marton Orford has got a secondary task here, except on the pretty track "Wonderful World", where he plays the flute, and it's a pity, cause it's such a splendid exception within the whole album!! In fact the keyboardist by IQ has been relegated to a simple music accompaniment here- apart from a few circumstances-by considering also some short symphonic breaks through...well these latter are almost continually directed by the guitarist only: this is definitely a disappointing number for me, as you know I'm a keyboardist-composer and I should like to appreciate a major role by the keyboards, especially in the development of the harmonic structure, instead..ok the melodic lines (sometimes much AOR-oriented) are a typical modern expression of such "new-progressive wave" and it doesn't disturb me too much;nevertheless "Wonderful World", "G13" and the first part of "Holding your breath (this latter becoming tiring at the end) represent the best effort by Chandler, who was not able to compose something really personal and not too much affected by the style of his best reference, Steve Hackett, afterwards...in fact after these remarkable examples he had a less creative "music imagination": however the good impact of their debut album doesn't erase its main defect, that is the lack of a real "team-work" (talking about the composition)...moreover the performance by Stephen Christey on drums is remarkable, but never reproduced (also live on stage) anymore,in the same manner..never mind, even though the presence of the guitar is a bit disturbing for me and really boring at the end, once again!!You could check it out (within a music genre-the modern light new prog- that I don't like very much as you know),for what "Wonderful World" concerns above all...