That Joe Payne is definitely the singer from The Enid. Check out their Invicta album. Amazing singer. I heard him with The Enid in a pub gig and they totally blew me away.
these was a Joe Payne (bassist) who was in the band Divine Heresy [amongst others] and was touring bassist for Nile. That Joe Payne was a member of the band Asia & later Asia featuring Joe Payne
What is special about this album is the emotional focus. I wouldn't say that it is poppy in the sense like Leprous. It is a highly complex music with emotion oriented vocals and it is quite unique for the genre.
It's OK but if it were all instrumental that would add at least a couple stars (for me anyway). More of "Into The Lair" & less of everything else. 'Lush' is accurate - but too lush for me. Doesn't really hold up to Wired For Madness (his last solo record that I really liked). Great player but so-so album... Other recent new stuff: Goose/Live At The Fox Theatre & LIve At The Capitol Theatre - always an interesting (jam) band especially live Owen Stewart/Done And Dusted Shed Seven/Liquid Gold - best of comp (power pop)
Great review Pete, you are always concise and get to the point, no waffling no long history a star a true review Thank you
Thanks Pete once again for all your hard work on Wednesday s 👍💯
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Joe Payne was the singer of the long-standing symphonic/prog band The Enid for a while a decade or so ago
That Joe Payne is definitely the singer from The Enid. Check out their Invicta album. Amazing singer. I heard him with The Enid in a pub gig and they totally blew me away.
these was a Joe Payne (bassist) who was in the band Divine Heresy [amongst others] and was touring bassist for Nile. That Joe Payne was a member of the band Asia & later Asia featuring Joe Payne
John Payne, not Joe, was in Asia.
The bassist for Asia was John Payne.
Wait, what, vocals? Didn't expect that. Will have to give a sample a listen and see how Jordan and his band sound on this release.
What is special about this album is the emotional focus. I wouldn't say that it is poppy in the sense like Leprous. It is a highly complex music with emotion oriented vocals and it is quite unique for the genre.
This is a bit mellow for what I like hearing from Rudess, but as with pretty much all of his solo albums, I respect the artistry.
Jordan looks like Michael Eavis of Glastonbury fame
It's OK but if it were all instrumental that would add at least a couple stars (for me anyway). More of "Into The Lair" & less of everything else. 'Lush' is accurate - but too lush for me. Doesn't really hold up to Wired For Madness (his last solo record that I really liked). Great player but so-so album...
Other recent new stuff:
Goose/Live At The Fox Theatre & LIve At The Capitol Theatre - always an interesting (jam) band especially live
Owen Stewart/Done And Dusted
Shed Seven/Liquid Gold - best of comp (power pop)