SPECTRUM

Steve Howe is without doubt one of the most influential and aclaimed guitarists of all times, his career covering almost 45 years and releasing many many albums. His solo career begin somewhere in mid '70s and since then he released more then 20 albums under his name. Spectrum from 2005 is one of the more recent works and is a fine album from first to last piece. With Tony Levin on bass, his sons Dylan Howe on drums and Virgil Howe on keyboards and Oliver Wakeman on keybords aswell as helping hands, he manage to create pleasent music and very enjoyble. I can say that this album offers simple/complex music, he covers a wide area of genres, from prog rock with similarities towards Yes, it was obvious, jazz fusion, eclectic moments, acustic parts all is done with good taste , smoothness and elegant passages. He is very versatile guitarist managing to create great moments here, and his toying with his instrument with an amazing ease. Forte pieces , the opening track Tigers Den, Realm thirteen and Highly Strung. All pieces are short, under 5 min, but the beauty of each one show how still great potential this guitarist has after so many years of making music. The overall atmosphere has a jazzy flawour but combined with aformentioned styles this album Spectrum is more then decent. So, a fine release from this master , desearve a solid 3 stars, maybe in places 3,5. Really good one.