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IMAGINARY VOYAGE

Jean-Luc Ponty

 

Jazz Rock/Fusion

3.70 | 138 ratings

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snobb
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3 stars Jean-Luc Ponty could be a great musician (and he is sometimes when plays as collaborator with some really great musicians :) ). But his solo albums are very often too cheesy, polished and unfocused.

Imaginary Voyage isn't Ponty's bad album (as isn't the best his album as well). There he shows all he knows best - very melodic viloin soloing with support of buck-up band. And even if for the some first minutes the listener really enjoy Ponty's violin sound, very soon he feels like listening endless pleasant but empty musical sounds.

Ponty adds country, disco or symphonic elements in his sound, and it not always the bad thing. Bigger problem is that all these elements are used as raw material to build his polished wall of (violin) music, which is always the same (doesn't matter what he uses as bricks for his wall).

Complex enough music possibly could be much better without this polished sound production and with more (not pop-) rock elements in it. In few best moments compositions sounds almost as good jazz-rock, but too often they just remind elevators music.

The album is still good enough if you like melodic, slightly cheesy simphonic jazzy sound, polished production and comfortable listening. I prefer to listen Ponty's violin when played under control of real jazz-rock masters.

snobb | 3/5 |

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