Antonio Forcione Dedicato

Great musician and guitar player. You hear every sound and every playline. Best man.

After the opening gypsy jazz track, Julian Arguelles exerts a Garbarek smoothness on the proceedings until Forcione swings it back with more of his trademark Mediterranean jazz and funky party-pieces. His style from these early days (before Ghetto Paradise - see review), tended towards the smooth anyway, but there was always a melodic edge. The lilting melody and exotic phrasings on the title track could be straight from Leni Stern's Finally The Rain Has Come (see review).

Forcione the showman steps to the fore with funky solo renditions of I Heard It Through The Grapevine and Come Together. But, like on his live recordings (see reviews), a lot is left to the imagination without seeing his party-stopping technical abilities in the flesh.

In places there is precursory evidence of what the future promises, when a maturer Forcione fully explores his John McLaughlin-influenced playing, on later albums.