This album is essentially fusion. That said, I tend to generally put fusion under the progressive rock heading. Why do I do that? Well, to me, the difference between prog and fusion is whether it’s more rock or more jazz. If it’s close enough along the lines, I figure it can be considered progressive rock. Whatever you want to label this, though, it’s a great album.

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This killer fusion jam reminds me of what you might get if you crossed Al Di Meola with UK. It’s a smoking hot number that starts this mission off in style.

This is slower, but no less impressive. It’s got a ton of passion and power in place. It’s quite a tasty tune that really works well. It provides some magic and majesty while embodying grace. I love some of the retro keyboard sounds on this thing.

Here we get more melodic fusion. This has a bit more oomph than the previous cut did.

At times this is a bit heavier than the rest of the music here. There’s a lot of energy to the piece and in some ways it feels more adventurous than a lot of the rest. There are definitely some dramatic moments here. It also drops to some extremely mellow music at times. I particularly enjoy some of the keyboard jamming here.

The guitar really guides a lot of this energetic jam. I can make out some hints of Latin sounds here and this does call to mind Di Meola a bit.

There’s a killer groove to this cut. It’s quite melodic and seems to have some hints of the Dixie Dregs, particularly in some of the guitar soloing.