TRIANGULUS

Regarding the talented members involved in this project,one can wait for some trully brilliant and majestic progressive music,unfortunately what we listen is very far from these standars.We are talking about mid-80's here and the main composers of this project, Bryngelsson and Johnson, decided to go along the cliches of the period.The album is a typical New Age work with soft Rock elements here and there, where plastic-sounding flutes, programmed drums and cheap keyboards have the main roles, trying to create dreamy soundscapes, but failing miserably.Additional colors delivered by smooth cello work,vibraphones and acouistic guitars will not help either.Only a couple of tracks offer some good moments and traces of this project's compressed talent,like the second part of ''Sirius B'' and its nice electric-led FLOYD-ian atmosphere with this cool guitar solo or the decent ''Digitaria'', which starts off with nice acoustic New-Age textures to develop in a great grandiose electric solo towards the end.The rest of the album: Don't even think about it,simply boring.

A huge dissapointment, Triangulus' debut has almost nothing to do with the unique past of its all-star line-up and should be a nice treausre only in the hands of New Age buffers,while PINK FLOYD fans should give this a spin or two.The two long and decent compositions of the second side save this work from being a total failure.