THE GATES OF OMEGA

It seems i will be the first one to have a word on the actual version. Indeed, it has to be added about the new remastered and more concised 2010 1cd edition of what i think is a very good neo prog album. Now i've never heard the original version but whatever has been cut down gives as a result a moody but still powerfull cd.

For one, the piece The Gates of Omega h as suffered (?) a ten minutes cut and, at still seventeen minutes, it keeps a soft moody progression which will not overstay its welcome by too much. Home sweet home, now the fifth song of this single cd should stay pretty much even at approx. the same time of sixteen or so minutes. And the same applies to Stars and Tears,the third epic of this well packed album, now the conclusion of the record. Untouched is the loveable overture, Forever chained, and the softer still 5 Years, giving you a one/two "feather punch" of prog ballads for which i'm a sucker i suppose.

In fact this is a kind of album i'd listen in a row, when in the mood, with the polish group Quidam mark II version, period "Together we're alone". As long as you share with me some appreciation for the same kind of moody prog indebted to Genesis circa 76/78 but sung in place by Ray Wilson and thus Marillion: or if you like the overall work of Cristiano Roversi, you could do worst than put an ear on this one. Three stars and a half for this reworked version.