Artist: Gabor Lesko
Album: FingerFusion Project
Genre: Fusion
Label: Creativity's Paradise Records
Released: 2019
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- Hipnosis (feat. Simon Phillips & Jimmy Haslip) - 04:55
- Lost in You (feat. Simon Phillips, Eric Marienthal & Mario Guarini) - 05:41
- Faith and Glory (feat. Simon Phillips, Eric Marienthal & Andrea Cocilovo) - 05:26
- Interstellar (feat. Simon Phillips, Eric Marienthal & Andrea Cocilovo) - 05:07
- FingerFusion (feat. Simon Phillips & Mario Guarini) - 04:25
- Wide (feat. Chad Wackerman, Jimmy Haslip & Eric Marienthal) - 04:21
- New Horizons (feat. Jimmy Haslip & Oscar Trabucchi) - 04:27
- We Are So Small (feat. Simon Phillips, Eric Marienthal & Andrea Cocilovo) - 07:31
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Lesko's sweetwinged fingers go further down the prog route with this exuberant release. Well, it could hardly be less than exuberant with that battery of drummers behind him, especially Phillips and the aptronymically-monikered Wackerman.
Lesko gets touted as a Steve Vai acolyte, but there's a lot of 1970s Larry Coryell here too: the cascading falls and doubling of lines with Marienthal is reminiscent of Larry Coryell's work with Steve Marcus, notably on the moody romp of ‘Lost in You’. It's all splendidly proficient and it's no surprise that the pomp and circumstance of a song like ‘Faith and Glory’ gets featured as a recent Jazz FM song of the month: dramatic soaring sax, trademark volcanic drumming, it's hard not to be seduced. The likes of ‘Interstellar’ with another waterfall of an intro and its promise of chunkier rhythms only flatters and soon falls back into big anthem mode: splendidly cinematic, but dully predictable. A bit like the album as a whole.
by Andy Robson