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Hi all,
On my way home after the gig I listened to SONIC ORIGAMI again ( I had already listened to it once and I was quite disappointed). And miracles can happen :-). It became better and better and now after listening to it maybe six or seven times I can tell you following :

(This is not a review only some mixed thoughts)
Well, first, it is different. Dont expect typical Heep because it is
far from that. I was quite shocked when I heard that SO will be more commercial sounding but in this case it aint so bad. There are some great songs : "Between Two Worlds" (best song this line-up has done), "Question", "Golden Palace" and "Only The Young" ( maybe because I found myself in this songs lyrics:-) ). Also some other quite good songs but also a couple of those I dont like. I just wonder why they choose "Across The Miles". If theres gotta be a cover song I could choose about 10.564 better ones. Who chose this ?!?! I dont know if Heep gets more playing time on radio with these songs but at least this is very different to what anybodys expecting !?

Anyway I guess it is question of attitude if you like SO or not. Also I thought that I will never say this but.... Bernie is not bad on SO. Something has happened to his voice or the way he sings but he is OK. Maybe the most important reason to this is that these kind of songs suite best to his way of singing. I have never liked him as a hard rock singer but with these "lighter and more melodic" (or commercial sounding :-) ) songs he is at his best. Same thing happened to me with RAINBOW. I couldnt stand JL Turner on first two albums but in "Bend Out of Shapes" he was better. Those songs were more suitable for him.

I hope that everyone will get their copies of SO as soon as possible so you can listen to it yourself.

Was this enough for one weekend ? NO - I just heard a song from new NAZARETH cd called "Cheerleader". GREAT ....good old Naz is back !!!