Paul Finch

Beauty, purity, and expressivity mark out music for upper voice choirs. On this recording, performed by one of the UK’s leading vocal ensembles, the repertoire embraces classics of the genre such as Gustav Holst’s sublime Ave Maria and his third group of Hymns from the Rig Veda, as well as contemporary music. James MacMillan and Sir John Tavener are represented by works that explore their unique musical language, whilst Bob Chilcott’s technically demanding The Song of the Stars offers richly approachable pleasures.

ndispenable classic progressive rock album taking the band in a different direction than that explored on their classic debut album ("Glory Of The Inner Force"). There are only 3 nice long songs on this album and is much more exploratory than their debut album. Finch were well known for being an unpredictable band blending chunky hard driving parts with more spacey softer subdued interludes. Once again a fair amount of analog keyboards are utilized with some lovely moog and mellotron runs. At times Finch sound like Yes trying to perform Perpetual Change while on speed… Without a question the center piece of Finch is the Les Paul guitar work of Joop Van Nimwegen who performs some highly technical and full bodied parts.