![]() Guests Tom Kennedy, Jimmy Johnson, and Billy Sheehan take care of bass guitar duties. ![]() Prog fans can spend a few hours deciphering the action in "Ataraxia," "Micronesia," and "Digital Vertigo." The music occasionally falls into the culprit of "complex for complexity's sake," but in general the guys keep things rolling thanks to a strong rhythm section. In "The Noble Savage," he briefly showcases his jazz tendencies (much more obvious in his solo albums). ![]() MacAlpine is a magician, often stealing the show with his inspired solos and soaring lead lines - recalling Allan Holdsworth in his prime. The other tracks rock hard, but in much more challenging ways. The hard rocker finds itself isolated at the end of the album. The pretty straightforward "Ignotus Per Ignotium," previewed on Live From Oz, lied about the group's direction. Most tracks feature oblique melodic lines and complex time signatures (in the press release, Sherinian is quoted saying, "Our most exotic time signature is four"). Here, Virgil Donati, Tony MacAlpine, and Derek Sherinian push the jazz-rock envelope farther into progressive rock territory. Just a few months after Live From Oz, Planet X unleashed its second studio album, MoonBabies.
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