PROJECT 7
907255
CD
BIRTHDEATHINFINITY
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ROCK INST. (GUITAR)A full sixty-two minute, 8-track album that should carry a government health warning! This CD opens and closes in the most fiery intensity, initially recalling the unforgettable dynamic power of the Mahavishnu Orchestra on track 1, only this offers huge muscular riffs and spiralling solos substituting for the sheer speed of Mahavishnu. Guitars fly and soar breathtakingly and the bass just grinds to skull-crunching effect, no more so than on the opener, which is one of the best opening tracks you’ll hear on a guitar based instrumental album. But the closer is just one destructive eight-minute monster that sounds like a nuclear force instrumental mix of all the great guitarists you could name. The rhythm section just strides out of the speakers and stomps its lead-lined boots all over your living room, closely followed by a guitar tornado that tears through everything in its path, with sizzling solos and crunching, grungy riffs that could rip the paper off your walls faster than the hottest of steam strippers could match! In between, the pace alternates between restrained, relaxed and full-on power, and without a doubt it’s one of the all-time great guitar albums without any doubt whatsoever!
The album opens with ‘The Last Night’, an eleven minute intense work that echoes the dynamic power of the ‘Inner Mounting Flame’ / ‘Birds Of Fire’ era Mahavishnu Orchestra, but the fiery speed of that 70’s band is replaced with fantastic muscular riffs and searing solos. This is just incredible stuff, as the guitars fly high to the heavens and in all directions over a solid rhythmic bed of powerhouse bass and synth undercurrents - A classic way to open any album, for sure, and one of the best guitar tracks I’ve heard - Sheer class, quality pace and power as the guitar roars into life for eleven white-hot minutes. ‘7-11’ is the 2nd track and sensibly it takes the pace down to gentle tune-like status for just over six minutes, as the soft drums, undulating bass, keyboards and relaxed melodic guitar weave a gorgeous musical spell that is all very emotional and heartfelt. ‘Air’ follows and rocks for over eight minutes, while ‘Tamara’ builds to great effect as the guitar gathers fire on a bluesy, but still cutting, near six-minute composition that allows neat room for the guitar and bass to work in. After over seven minutes of ‘For Your Love’, the ten and a half minute title track alternates between restrained, dynamic and full-on power, in an almost Holdsworth way, only dirtier, more effective and with greater feeling as the track carves though its vari-paced progress. ‘The Vampire’ is the shortest on the album - a restrained ballad mixing acoustic and electric guitars for three minutes, while the final track, ‘Somalia’ is the total opposite. This piece is totally destructive, and if you set your amp’s volume control too high, your speakers might never recover after this amazing track has blitzed through them with an eight minute onslaught of almighty proportions – The beefed-up rhythm section would blow your bass units to kingdom come and the sizzling guitar solos could take care of the mid-range and tweeter assemblies with remarkable efficiency, but if your sound system survives the experience, you might just want to test it to it’s limits with a immediate re-run of that said same track! So, ‘Somalia’ could terminate your sound system, but it also ends this album as magnificently as it began.
Weight: 150.00 g
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