Invisible Touch

Delivered in the wake of Phil Collins' massive success as a solo star, Invisible Touch was seen at the time as a bit of a Phil Collins solo album disguised as a Genesis album, and it's not hard to see why. Invisible Touch is, without a doubt, Genesis' poppiest album, a sleek, streamlined affair built on electronic percussion and dressed in synths that somehow seem to be programmed, not played by Tony Banks…

Delivered in the wake of Phil Collins' massive success as a solo star, "Invisible Touch" was seen at the time as a bit of a Phil Collins solo album disguised as a Genesis album.

The two-DVD set Live at Montreux 2004 actually contains two very different Phil Collins concerts. As the release's title suggests, the main attraction is his Montreux Jazz Festival performance from 2004, during his "First Final Farewell Tour." This show runs two hours and 17 minutes and includes two dozen songs spanning Collins' solo career. While most of the show features Collins front and center on vocals, the opening "Drums, Drums & More Drums" finds him behind the kit for a percussive workout. He kicks off with a solo, soon joined by the show's primary drummer, Chester Thompson. Percussionist Luis Conte also joins in, topping off an exciting instrumental performance.

Max Johnson - The Invisible Trio (2014) {Fresh Sound New Talent}
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I wondered for a brief moment whether the title referenced the Trinity, but suspect that this music comes from a different place. There’s a dark, almost Hebraic quality to the bassist’s writing and the trio, far from being invisible, is strongly foregrounded at all times. This is a challenging format, though Johnson’s bowed figures and strong, throbbing solos make up for the lack of a harmony instrument. The Pretzel is a nicely salty, twisted line that gets the three voices working together. The title track is a mournful-sounding horn chorale over singing bass harmonics. Moving Vehicle is light, mobile bop and sparks a great solo from Ravitz.

The Invisible City of Kitezh, completed in 1905, is a remarkable opera that fuses folklore, mysticism and realism. Its subject is the story of the advancing Mongol army’s entry to Great Kitezh and the city’s subsequent miraculous survival. Rejecting archaisms and the more religiously inclined suggestions of his librettist, Rimsky-Korsakov sought to create an opera that “is contemporary and even fairly advanced”. It is therefore through-composed, hinting at times at Wagnerian procedure, and flooded with the composer’s rich, apt and brilliant orchestral palette, fully supportive of the powerful vocal writing.

CD from SECOND BATTLE - official and legal from the mastertapes. KROKODIL goes progressive rock: This album isn't called a 70‘s milestone for nothing! You can hardly describe in detail what the band, working closely with sound wizard Dieter Dierks, accomplished here. To put it short: "Invisible World" simply contains each and every trademark of the genre - great song writing, absolutely far out arrangements, highly imaginative solos and psychedelic mellotron and sitar sounds.