Long live Mick Box! In "Across The Miles" the band explores It demonstrates the characteristic of Heep music. Structure of "Love Machine" from "Look At Yourself Album" with different melody. Box provides its guitar solo in a bluesy style. The strength of this song lies in its composition and It's one of myįavorite tracks from this album. "Shelter From The Rain" (6:10) is a nice track with excellent singing style and good "Heartless Land" is an acoustically driven track. "Perfect Little Heart" is not as impressive as the opening track but it's a It has a good musical interlude with guitar "I Hear Voices" is a rocker with a distant voice singing style and continuous The music returns back toĪ rocking style. Heavy rhythm at the beginning followed with slower one where Bernie sings with The music enters in relatively fast tempoįollowed with powerful voice of Bernie Shaw. Which reminds me to the style of Hensley. The song opens with soft keyboard sounds of Phil Lanzon This song has become one of my favorite Heep tracks.īernie Shaw delivers his excellent voice augmented with great backing voices Track "Between Two Worlds" (6:29) really proves that the band still able to compose The album stillĬharacterizes the band's 70s sound even though it's not so intent. This album proves the band existence in rock music industry. This is one of the finest albums to bear the band's name for many a year. The move back towards prog initiated on "Sea of light" has to some extent been put on hold for this album, but don't let that put you off. The rest of the album is a fine mixture of up tempo rock tracks, and softer harmonious pieces. Once again, the track has a great hook for the band to exploit in a live situation. "The golden palace" has more of a prog structure, with excellent acoustic guitar backed vocals from Bernie Shaw, and some fine orchestration by Lanzon. The album demonstrates how Lanzon's song writing ability had developed over the years, to the stage where he along with Box, and to a lesser extent Trevor Boulder, is a key member of the band in that area. Song writing credits on this track are split between Mick Box, and Phil Lanzon, with the verses being written by Matthew Lanzon, Phil's son. It is on the face of it, rather pop like, but after hearing it a few times it becomes apparent that this is a wonderfully melodic tune which, in all probability, you will find yourself humming weeks later. "Heartless land" is something of a grower, sounding at first a bit ordinary. While quite out of character it really works well as a beautiful piece of music, and even a potential hit single. One of the band's rare cover versions is the reworking of an AOR track by SURVIVOR, "Across the miles". For those who loved the music of the Classic Heep, this track will roll back the years. ![]() It is a mark of the confidence of the current line up that when played live at "The Magician's Birthday party" in 2002, photos of the late Byron were projected onto the screen at the back of the stage. Musically, it is more than a little reminiscent of the classic Ken Hensley compositions such as "Return to Fantasy", and "Look at yourself". The opening track, "Between two worlds" is a wonderful tribute to the band's original lead singer, David Byron. "Sonic Origami" continues that resurgence, and is worthy of a place at the top table of Uriah Heep albums alongside (and only marginally inferior to) "Demons and Wizards", "The Magician's Birthday" etc. Uriah Heep's previous album, "Sea of light" indicated that they were well on the way to regaining their form, and were once again establishing themselves as a force to be reckoned with. ![]() To take that walk again with someone you were close to, on stage in the other world tonight
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