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Trespass - Morning Lights
Written by Charlie O'Mara   
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Very few good things have come out of Jerusalem. Trespass are one of those things. The band's first album, In Haze Of Time, slipped through our fingers like sand a couple of years ago, but was well received elsewhere, so I guess we missed out there.

So, on to their second, or sophomore as Americans call it, album Morning Lights. Song Of Winds (or The Four Winds as it's also known) starts proceedings off in a folksy-progressive way, evoking memories of Jethro Tull, with it's airy fairy flute intro, but it's with the epic 21 minute long title track Morning Lights that the bands true colours come to the fore. A mixture of classical licks and keyboard driven prog hits the marks bulleyes! All this topped by Gil Stein's slight yet appropriate vocals. It all comes together to evoke a 1970's green and pleasant England style Prog Album, back when Genesis ruled the waves and everything was better, except the clothes. And the haircuts, General Strike, 3 day weeks, power cuts and just three channels on your black'n'white TV. However, back to the song, and the reversed intro and outro are sublime.

For some reason, a band called Trespass doing a song called Ripples sounds just about perfect. However it's just about the saddest song around, and at about 12 minutes long deserves to be in our next podcast, so it probably will. Listen in to find out what we mean.

Vivaldish is the bands take on Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in A Minor, strangely enough, in a prog style. I wont lie to you, I'm not big on classical music. I can't tell my Brahms from my Liszt, but this sounds OK to me, though it doesn't leave me wanting to explore the original piece.

The album closes with the Forest Birds Fantasy, a light, up-tempo, gentle prog piece which is interspersed with bird song.

Overall, this is a fairly decent album for those of you hankering over a slice of classic prog.

For more information on the band, check their website at www.trespassband.net . The album is available on 8th Note records and Musea


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