This CD takes you right back to the Eighties and ninetys.  Their is so much Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel to be found in this album.  I can't recommend this CD enough, it is a really great piece of art done by the multi talented Jeff Cannata!  If you like progressive rock you cant not like this, bye it after you listen to it because you will eventually.
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This is an essential purchase for lovers of melodic rock.The songs are well written and come together so well on this cd.This is a mixture of hard rock,progressive rock,classic rock and world music elements that make for an awesome listening experience.
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ARC ANGEL – CANNATA
Tamorok
(OXFORD CIRCUS OXF002)
On Anthology 1969-1976 by Jasper Wrath from 1996 there was with Big Life already a foretaste of the new album by Jeff Cannata to be heard. Six years later this foretaste appears to have given an excellent view from the music on Tamorok: first-rate produced rock that demonstrates affinity with crystal clear AOR as well as with modern symphonic rock, in which there is enough space for amongst others sharp and slurring guitar-solo’s, flawless, sometimes Yes-like choruses and attractive, but surely also bombastic keyboards. As far as that is concerned the opening-song and title-track is telling everything. Multi-instrumentalist (drums, guitars, synthesizers) and singer Cannata puts down a strong as well subtle song, which is being performed to perfection and in which the oriental flute-play of Robert Gianotti (lead guitarist in other tracks) occupies an important position. Cannata is someone who has never shunned social criticism in his lyrics, with which he also propagates a certain amount of charity. He does it here also: Prisoner In The Hole Land for instance puts into words very well the powerlessness that many will feel with the long-term conflict between Palestinians and Israeli. That feeling of fierce is also in Dangerous Game and in the closing piece Kings Of Nations, which is interlarded by sounds of war, although there is also space for a sensitive ballad like Stay. Next to seven new tracks there is a new recorded version of Stars, from the only CD by Arc Angel (1983). From the Cannata-albums Images Of Forever (1988) and Watching The World (1993) the first three tracks are also added. The music from these two bands was more into the AOR, although the mentioned trademarks were already amply present, though in smaller proportions. This all makes Tamorok, which has been released under a joining together of these group-names, an introduction with the beautiful new music by Jeff Cannata as well as a veiled compilation of his older work, which isn’t available at the moment.
Information: www.arcangel-cannata.com
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How did we miss these folks?
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