Great Review of Ahab

It’s been a while since I’ve posted to this BLOG, but much has happened along the way. Since its release in March, Ahab has been selling well which is wonderful for several reasons - the most important being that people are rediscovering Moby Dick, and ultimately, that was the purpose of releasing the CD.

Here is a wonderful review of the CD from the Dutch progressive music site, DME music, by Dmitri M. Epstein (the original link is here: http://dmme.net/reviews/reviews44.html#garone3 ). But in case you can’t get there from here, here is the review:

Into the great white open to fathom the depth of one chase, the artist delivers another epic aural tale.

Following his tendency of releasing an album every five years, Tony Garone goes from the space vastness of "Big Star Way" to the oceanic enormity of "Ahab" which, as one may guess, is based on "Moby Dick". Yet it's not a musical retelling of the familiar story but a personal interpretation of what lies below the literal surface - with a lighter touch than before: this time prog turns to clever pop, and the listener is gently hooked on the soft, layered vocals of the opener, "Ismael And The Sea", and is let free only when the journey ends, after the art rock spiritual swell in the title track. Quite like it was with one Captain and a certain whale.

There's some fusion and some world music in this buzzy mix, and one can do madful limbo to the "Queequeg" jive with its QUEENish chorus before delicately rocking to "The Pequod" that shows what a cracking band Garone leads now, his son Anthony an economic yet on-the-money guitarist. Still, the theatrical slant of "The Mission" falls out of the stylistic context, while the vaudeville that is "Confrontation And Destiny" fares fine, and the hymn "Candles Of The Ocean" nicely follows the Arabic ring of "Fedallah". Mostly enjoyable and always interesting, the album reveals its strata little by little - the more exciting is the way. Tony Garone engaged it again.