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COLIN MASSON "the southern cross" cd,

some folky sounding tracks on here...
some start slow and folky and build to something not dissimilar to 'telegraph road'...
others are almost prog rock in nature...
you can feel the emotion in the guitar work like that projected from the frets of Knopfler/Gilmour, and im
not exaggerating in the slightest,
this guy should have been a musical legend, he has everything in his arsenal those guys have!
a very good, well recorded collection of songs from a guy who dabbles in music when not
being a school teacher!

Colin Masson in his own words re: the album.

I think the Southern Cross is guilty of being a concept album, the concept quite typical of someone in the first flush of youth. I had the rather melancholy idea of two ships separated by a thousand years in time, both of which came to a sticky end. Side one would be taken up with the adventures of the original Southern Cross, some time in the 18th century (Perhaps a little like the journeys of Captain Cook, but in a strange alternative universe). The second ship was a starship that had an unfortunate encounter with a black hole. This idea rattled around in my head about a year and during this time most of the material here was written. It has to be said that I do have an unfortunate habit of straying off the original subject and so by the end of it the concept is only fairly loosely adhered to. But this is how it all began.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: ocean of storms
best track: South Australia

(sorry, no link for my favourite, but heres one for one of the beautiful instrumentals on the album)

[video=youtube;-Pdq0ECkdnk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pdq0ECkdnk&list=PL6PLmdVbQHCMuIRd5TnyZepwRRpzBs7M2 &index=2[/video]

tracks:

1...never come back ***
2...sails of silver ***
3...South Australia ***
4...the wreckers **
5...compass rose (instrumental) **
...."intermission with moon cycles"
6...the heart of the machine **
7...ocean of storms (instrumental") *
8...The Southern Cross (instrumental) **

3s=3
2s=4
1s=1

rating: 2.2