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The cassette version of this record introduces me to Rick Wakeman, and the much, much brilliant music of Yes more than ten years ago. Thanks to the internet, I have accessed Rick Wakeman's website and tried to see the information of this album, and learned that RW himself hated this album so much since it was finished without his consent, and the label didn't really remunerate him as they are supposed to. He also disliked the vocals and the arrangements on this (which I guess was done without his approval). in this record we audience can enjoy a rather new perspective/approach to his music as it is obvious that RW himself has nothing to do with the arrangement. It is not without flaws, but it is refreshing. I would say it's a good job for whoever that had done the arrangement. Also in comparison to his singer pal on the original Journey to the Centre of the Earth concert in the 70s, I do prefer this vocal and the rock-oriented arrangement. The guitar works and the drumming here are nothing but average. The bass is surprisingly good, although not Chris Squire good. His keyboard works are as brilliant as ever, although it suffers to a certain extent from a copy and paste approach to computer-music production, i.e. a few repeats in a song. Naturally I would rate this somewhere between good and average with some brilliant moments and some crappy repetition of those great passages. But as the system only allows either good or average, I'll go for good.Read full review
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