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STORY OF I
MORAZ, PATRICK
1976 , UK - EURO 6.50
Label: CHARISMA/VIRGIN
ALBUM REVIEW
Keyboardist Patrick Moraz, well-known from his work in the band Yes during Relayer era was releasing with The Story of I his first solo album after his demise from them...Actually this record is starting quite good and promising: dark Mellotron tunes, piano lines and bass interludes, whistling synths and some Latin American percussion in the back. This quite unique blend seems to work still in the first track "Impact". But after this one the album really starts to become annoying. Obviously Patrick Moraz used to love a lot Latin American rhythms and so he was trying here to integrate a complete Brazilian percussion group into this album with the result of a catastrophic failure. Just because most of the music is rather rooted in the western „white“ pop rock style, so the whole album is sounding in some way not coherent at all, more like an arbitrary patchwork. Moreover many parts are very much reminiscent to Broadway music. Nevertheless there are a few positive moments, like "Intermezzo" in the beginning quite reminiscent to Renaissance then the song is shifting to a Latin rhythm section followed by a rather complex final part a bit similar to parts of "Gates Of Delirium" on Relayer album. "Indoors" is a quite good jazz fusion track , "Impressions" has a nice piano solo and "Rise And Fall" has some nice parts and tunes as well...So, don’t expect anything similar to any releases made by YES from this one. (rateyourmusic.com)
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