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Gabriella Martina

States

Review by Gary Hill
This is definitely art music. It has a lot of progressive rock in the mix. It also has plenty of jazz built into it. Whatever you call this, it’s a powerful set from start to finish. It also has plenty of variety to allow it work well as a whole.

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Track by Track Review
Full Circle

This has sections that feature stabs of sounds. Other parts are more flowing and melodic. The whole thing is loaded with creative and art based music that has plenty of jazz and progressive rock built into it. It’s a great way to start the disc in style. This also includes a male rap later. There is an amazingly powerful world music meets prog mode that serves to eventually end it. It features non-lyrical vocals and so much magic.

Come on Home

Mellower, rather folk based sounds are in the driver’s seat as this comes in and grows. It’s more of a ballad. It has a lot of charm and style. It also has a bit of a grounding effect. While the arrangement fills out later it still remains on the mellower, melodic side of things. There are definitely jazz elements at play here.

Alpha Bird

More driving and rock oriented, this is an intriguing cut with plenty of prog and jazz in the mix. It has some intriguing twists and turns. The dropped back instrumental exploration later is so cool. It gets more fusion-aligned and features guitar and piano jamming. 

The Circus

Bouncy and world music meets jazz based at this gets underway, the track begins evolving from there. This thing works through so many changes. It gets more jazz oriented for a while. It gets into more soaring prog zones further down the road, too.

Soso

Piano and vocals make up the jazzy arrangement on this It’s another evolving and powerful piece of music.

Dreams

Here we get a rendition of a Cranberries song. There is a real jazz meets prog vibe to this. It has some definite freeform elements at play. It’s classy stuff. There is a rap built into this track later. The whole number is intriguing and effective.

Unfold

At almost ten-and-a-half minutes of music, this is the epic of the set. It combines artsy elements with classical ones as it starts and grows outward. It remains on the mellower end of the spectrum for most of its duration, but it does rise up for a time later with jazz meets prog stylings.

 
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