The Iridium Controversy

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Birdsongs of the Mesozoic

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This is really intelligent music. This album represents the best fusion of Classical Music with Rock that I have ever heard. Yes, it is cerebral and it does challenge you. I have found that if you concentrate on it you will feel your brain working better after you are finished with it. This occurs because it stimulates new neural patterns in your brain - you really have not heard music like this before. It is not Classical it is not Rock. It really is both. And I'm not talking about the pseudo art rock of 70's Genises or Yes. This is the real deal.

This is my first taste of "Birdsongs" music and I am taken with it. Many Progressive rhythms, elements of jazz, classical and rock. This is instrumental music. Sax, Guitar, Keyboards, Synths are delicate and percussions galore. Song lengths between 3 and 7 minutes in length. Beautiful shifting textures, flowing jazz lines, a little hip-hop beat now and then with a diverse range of percussive instruments. Only four members are listed although five others appear on the album, one of which, Roger Miller, was a former band member. The other four are percussionists.

Fans of classical and jazz music may enjoy this album. At times is reminds me of Bill Brufords Earthworks (first album, at least). Prog-metal fans might have a hard time understanding it. The guitar lines are rich and tasteful, never bombastic, occassionally Holdsworthian.