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The Outpost Cafe / Four new Asia tracks ...
« on: February 25, 2008, 06:54:23 AM »
Here: http://www.originalasia.com/
Needless to say, they won't send anybody scurrying to buy the CD who didn't even like them first time around (don't bother, Dave!) , but they don't sound washed out either. Wetton's voice isn't quite as angelic as it used to be, I actually like it better now. Palmer's drumming is still pompous - the best circus band drummer in the world. Hats off to Geoff Downes for that unabashed eighties keyboard wizardry, but he can also still pump the Hammond (or a synth that sounds like it!) and Steve Howe's angular playing will always have idiosyncratic charm to me.
Uwe
Needless to say, they won't send anybody scurrying to buy the CD who didn't even like them first time around (don't bother, Dave!) , but they don't sound washed out either. Wetton's voice isn't quite as angelic as it used to be, I actually like it better now. Palmer's drumming is still pompous - the best circus band drummer in the world. Hats off to Geoff Downes for that unabashed eighties keyboard wizardry, but he can also still pump the Hammond (or a synth that sounds like it!) and Steve Howe's angular playing will always have idiosyncratic charm to me.
Uwe