LANA LANE - ECHOES FROM THE OCEAN

REVIEWS

---

"The second Japanese mini-CD, this time featuring one brand new track, 'Rhapsody', which is an absolutely belting rock-prog anthem if ever there was one, one that in the mid-'80's would have been played to death on every radio show across the land and surely have been a top ten hit. The other four tracks are all alternate versions of tracks from the "Queen Of The Ocean" album [webmaster's note: only the "Long Version" of "Frankenstein Unbound" is an alternate version of a Queen of the Ocean track -- the EP contains a 1999 remix of "Escher's Staircase" from Curious Goods and the original 1995 mix of "Through the Fire" from Love is an Illusion], all of which paint a quite different picture from the corresponding tracks on the album but all as consistent as you'd expect, with some interesting arrangements from the band, while the playing remains as hot as ever, and - ooooh - those vocals!!! Superb way of spending thirty three minutes. Oh yes, as you'd expect from the Japanese, the packaging is nothing short of incredible, too, as you get a neat fold-out, solid bodied digipak."

[Andrew Garibaldi, CD Services, Scotland, 1999]