Foreign Spaces UFO Breakfast

Georg Reiter and Christian Feher crank up their twin Roland JD800s and a Jupiter 6 to produce this album which proclaims "We’ve come from the stars and we’ll go back there!". The title track opens and suddenly I think I’ve put the wrong disc in. Surely this is a new Paul Ward album? It starts like ‘Flying South’ and then goes into a ‘Scream in Darkness’ style solo. Throw in a throbbing sequenced backdrop and it’s adds up to a fine track. Now hold on. John Dyson has now suddenly joined the lineup for track 3, ‘Easy Flyer’. Well it certainly sounds like one of his characteristic lead lines. The next couple of tracks take a more bullish stance, then things change again as light melodics take the fore in ‘Magic Park’. ‘Foreign Places’ combines more Dysonesque leads with pulsing sequences to produce another excellent outing, and the final track ‘The Ufo Has Landed’ is another impressive uptempo piece. This is a well produced album with plenty of quality EM on show. At times the music does sound very derivative of the UK scene, and perhaps because of this I think most UK EM fans would feel very comfortable with this CD slotted into their collection. (GG)

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