Deep Water

Neal Morses nye bandprosjekt Cosmic Cathedral slipper sitt debutalbum! Morse stiller her med de svært erfarne og usedvanlig dyktige musikerveteranene Chester Thompson, Phil Keaggy og Byron House. Sjefen sjøl beskriver albumet som et møte mellom prog, yacht rock, The Beatles og jazz fusion-sjangeren. Chester Thompson, som har spilt med både Frank Zappa og Genesis, sier dette om albumet: "One of my favorite projects I’ve ever been a part of!”Da er det vel ikke stort mer å lure på?If you are a celebrated progressive rock musician who has produced dozens of albums, how do you make an album that is different to what is usually expected? One answer is to work with musicians who also have decades of experience and worldwide recognition, plant a few seeds, then stand back and see what happens. For the Cosmic Cathedral project and their debut album ‘Deep Water’, this is exactly what Neal Morse did, joining up with Chester Thompson (Genesis), Phil Keaggy & Byron House. Much of the album was created from jam sessions where Morse’s long-time audio partner Jerry Guidroz put the best parts together, such as for the 38 minute epic, Deep Water Suite. Says Morse, “Time To Fly, also came directly from one of the jam sessions, where we took one of Phil’s ideas and all four of us elaborated on it.” What resulted from all this was a more groove-orientated feel, which Morse calls a “prog meets yacht rock meets The Beatles” kind of album, with an unmistakable jazz fusion influence: “These guys are real groovers: even if they're playing proggy stuff, it has more of a Steely Dan feel to it, but when Phil and I start singing it sounds like The Beatles!”