The music here should appeal to fans of classically tinged progressive rock. Other than the final number, this is all instrumental. Taken song by song, it’s also very strong. Unfortunately, taken as a whole, the disc suffers from its monolithic nature. Not only are all the songs in almost the same tempo, the rhythm created from the guitar is just about interchangeable from song to song. That’s a shame because everything here is great. The art of creating an album with a variety seems to be falling by the wayside as more and more artist self produce. That might very well be a big factor in the trend of people buying one song at a time. I for one miss the days of whole albums living and breathing with peaks and valleys. Still, Thomas is talented and any of these tracks will please most classically tinged prog fans. You probably won’t find yourself sitting down and listening to the disc end to end, though.

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Starting with a distortion laden guitar, this is a killer rendition of the classical piece. There aren’t a lot of surprises, but come on, you can’t go wrong with this thing.