Smell a past Floydian here?  Yes and ELP with a little of all the late 60 and 70's subliminal masters. No drugs required here though.
Kirk and the guys with a simple break by the right person at the right time could be heard on sound tracks of hundreds of movies we have all watched and the ones still to be made. Wanna get a real experience, shut all the lights off tune this CD, close your eyes and shut down the outside world. You will get several different feelings of pleasure and solefull pureism that you want to regain as soon as the song ends. I hope the afterlife holds such as this. Peace
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Very good modern prog from a hi-tech internet collective led by Carl Kirkendall, with players zen-pooling their talents while recording in different places around the globe.  The tracks are roughly divided between full band numbers and atmospheric synth soundscapes, the latter evoking Synergy around Cords or Audion (think On Presuming To Be Modern or Shibolet).  The band tracks are tight, moody, heavily instrumental pieces offering that same Synergy flavor but with more epic touches creeping in.  Majiker and Earthbound, for example, recall Yes around Tormato or Keystudio, especially as the occasional vocals sound like a subdued Jon Anderson.  Steve Hall's excellent guitar parts led a fiery edge on Majiker and the opening Scirocco but still stay controlled and glossy, with some nice acoustic flourishes thrown in as well.  To these ears, his electric parts also bring back out that Synergy flavor, echoing Russ Hamm's guitar synthesiser on Cords.  One track, This Lonely Corner, shows a whole different side and recalls the Laurie Anderson contribution on Eno’s Drawn From Life, and is all the more beautiful for it.  All around, an original prog discovery with considerable promise.
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