Tory Lanez The New Toronto 3

Recorded in two separate sessions, one in New Orleans and
 the other in Denver a few months later, Renewable Energy 
expands on the NMS template while still providing plenty of
 the band’s trademark sounds. Guitarist Eddie Roberts, 
drummer Simon Allen, bassist Pete Shand and keyboardist 
Joe Tatton are joined on this 12-track effort by a number of
 guests: Sam Bell, one of the founding members 
of NMS precursor The Mastersounds plays percussion on most
 of the tracks.

This is a very unusual and rather experimental CD. The actual artist for the album is listed as Geoff Downes and the New Dance Orchestra. The liner says that the music the group performs is designed to bring tone and color to the stereo sound spectrum. It lists their further goals are to simultaneously retain "a deep musical foundation, upon which are built a series of images to stimulate the listener in his or her own domain." High ideals indeed, but does the music live up to it? Well, this music is strictly instrumental and quite electronic, but it does contain some very potent sound imagery and power and majesty. Among the other unique qualities the disc possesses is the fact that each of the five main pieces on the disc are divided into separate sections, for a total of 33 tracks.