"Azhdark Passion delivers weighty but delicate positivistic music, stunningly performed by just one young musician with an intelligence that will completely shame many established figures"
The cover shouts "amateur", the name whispers "fanboy", both bid you to pass on. Don't fall for it. Psicodreamics is Salva Moreno, an extraordinarily gifted keyboardist and composer with a knack for arrangement that will shock the listener ...
... The ghosts of Sebastian Hardie, Wakeman, Banks, and even echoes of the Berlin`ers meet and collate riffs in the very first selection, whith Robert John Godfrey hanging just offstage, conducting. Then comes a light waltz nocturne that deepens as it progresses, illuminating Moreno's solid base in classicalism. So deep is his sense and so sure his hand that Gandalf and Jean Paul Boffo figure into comparisons, revealing lavish multi-sonorities and the conviction that this guy should be composing for orchestras, repairing the betrayal we experienced in Ralph Lundsten's syrups and creampuffs. Azhdark Passion delivers weighty but delicate positivistic music, stunningly performed by just one young musician with an intelligence that will completely shame many established figures. Come to the table with a sophisticated and unprejudiced ear and you'll walk away dazzled star-struck.
Sound: ***
Composition: ****
Musicianship: ***
Performance: ***
Total rating: 13
