As an album full of fusion legends, it is perhaps not surprising that there's a lot to absorb here. Of the 8 tracks on the 2 CD set, only one clocks in under 10 minutes, and four of them surpass 20 minutes with "Hymn to Andromeda" nearing 30. The sad side effect of this is it takes a combination of focused listening and, maybe more to the point, many many listens to start to digest what's going on here. The first time through, I feel like I missed a lot of what was going on, and it's only after at least five or six plays through that I've really started to catch some of the things that are going on as the musicians take their turns soloing and playing off of each other.
That said, even if you jump in and out, musically it's a fairly exhilarating ride. It was recorded live from a show in Europe and the production is phenomenal, making it sound a lot like a studio album with the exception of interjections of crowd applause. Fans of the musicians involved and who have time to invest in picking this apart should definitely check it out, but the more casual listener will probably feel overwhelmed and should look to some of the more structured (used lightly) studio work of related acts such as Return to Forever and Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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