MINDREVOLUTIONS

I guess that this "Flower King" album was recorded prior to 1991 and only released in 2005 for whatever reasons. It is quite remarkable to have decided Freddie Mercury to join on the vocals. One was not used to hear his voice on a symphonic prog album.

I have to say that it is quite interesting to listen to him in an epic as "Mindrevolutions", but he is also in great shape while performing on "Remains Of The Day". Of course, he is not perfect, but he had to adapt to a new musical genre quite rapidly; and unfortunately he won't be able to repeat this challenge. RIP, Freddie.

Apart from that, this TFK offering is not very different from the other ones. This is fine and symphonic music which reminds you some of the giants from the seventies (nothing new, right?), emotional guitar solo, nice keyboards etc.

The major problem is that there is almost no diversity in the song writing; which is condemning this (very) long album. There is not a single bad track (although I don't like "The Doodger") and if you're not too much of an old reluctant regressive music hunter, there are lots of possibilities that this work will appeal to you.

Actually this TFK album deserves two stars for his many very good instrumental and female vocal passages, but when Freddie's clone is on duty, my interest is lying quite low ("A Pair Of Sunbeams", "Shadow Of Time" for instance).

Oh "Yes", this is a "Kaipa" album. I almost mix it up with TFK. I wonder why!