Chick Corea Electric Band - Eye Of The Beholder (1988)

Always thought that Chick Corea Electric Band's best album was Beneath The Mask (if you are not familiar with this album and you dig fusion music definitely chack it out). That was until i heard this album. And it is trully an amazing Jazz/Rock record.The line up the same till then, with the talents of John Patitucci on bass, Dave Weckl on Drums, Frank Gambale on guitars and Eric Marienthal on sax. Easily the best of the Elektric Band outings, the writing is really strong, melodic and complex. Eye Of The Beholder is more on the jazzy side of things unlike the albums they wrote after this one (Inside Out & Beneath The Mask) walking on fusion grounds. It has i believe more of a soundtrack feel, with lots of Corea's Piano work being the lead instrument,small piano passages with sax melodies between the main songs. It is more laid back and soft in it's whole having even acoustic guitars from Gambale but has the moments where it gets ''louder'' and more aggressive.
Truly magnificent work here!

Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Home universe (2:46)
2. Eternal child (4:50)
3. Forgotten past (3:00)
4. Passage (4:53)
5. Beauty (7:48)
6. Cascade_part 1 (2:00)
7. Cascade_part 2 (5:08)
8. Trance dance (5:50)
9. eye of the beholder (6:32)
10. Ezinda (6:54)
11. Amnesia (3:30)

Total Time 53:30


Line-up / Musicians
- Chic Corea / acoustic piano
- Dave Weckl / drums
- John Patitucci / bass
- Eric Marienthal / saxophone
- Frank Gambale / guitar


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