ALL ALONG THIS LAND

The Source from USA is a young retro prog band with two albums released so far. Their first offer from 2006 - All along this land is a fairly intresting album with influences coming from Yes, specially on guitar deparment , Spock's Beard and even The Flower Kings. Symphonic prog is all about here with a retro sound and warm vocal lines. What I like on this band and particulary on their debute is that this album has plenty of instrumental parts, quite complex and well performed, for example the title track All Along This Land clocking around 22 min, divided in 5 small pieces is a monster of a pice, here the band gathred all the great ideas and puted in music, the result is fantastic. Lots of nice smooth guitars , remind me a lot of Stewe Howe sound and manner of playing, elegant keyboards and fine druming. Very warm voice coming from Aaron Goldich who done a good job fiting perfect in the overall sound.I will give 3, 5 stars for this little known band , this is a great debute that fans of symphonic prog must discover.