Reviews

...Mr Goto is basically dealing in the well respected / feared world of progressive fusion, and he has a compositional flair that lifts it up out of the ordinary. There are times when it leaves the world of prog behind and dashes straight off into the realms of jazz fusion, something that delights the widdler in me. Some of the keyboard work is quite astonishing and tracks like 'Karma' and 'The Deepest Depression' will leave you wondering "how the heckin' heck did he do that"? Recommended for people who like the edges where prog and jazz fusion blur into one.
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...“The Inner Cycle” is a somewhat calmer composition, sounding as if Camel with an infusion from the music of the Far East, yet with haunting voices and a theme that is recurrent in some of the other darker and heavier songs on the album. So is “Werther Effect”, whose title alludes to “a suicide that is replicated based on media information” (from Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther), with its gamelan-like and Far East music themes. “Inner Peace” and “The Spirits Within” are also more serene, somehow reminding of the German group Rousseau’s Square the Circle album. In “Flow like Water”, a Fripp-like anguishing guitar, as if from Peter Gabriel’s “Exposure”, or King Crimson’s “Requiem”, as well as seagull-like cries, help painting the desolating image of a deserted harbor at a river’s flowing into a sea. An impressive list of guests assisted Tadashi Goto with rendering his twelve Innervisions that clock at a total of one hour. Among them: on guitar – Ty Tabor, Sean Conklin and Chris Poland; on bass – Tony Levin, Tony Franklin and Randy George.
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To tell the truth i am not really someone who gets into instrumental albums but like they say: there is a first time for everything. Formost just look at all the guests who are playing on this album. Very impressive to say the least. Secondly the songs are good! These aren't songs which flow all the way, no every song has a structure. Not saying there isn't any soloing battles because that would be a lie. So that all being said i am glad ProgRock Records sended me this album because i don't think i would have spotted it in the shops. A damn fine album, damn good tunes now where is that play button to hear it one more time.
progressivemusiccharliff.blogspot.com/2008/10/tadashi-goto-innervisions.html

Portuguese review
fenixwebzine.blogspot.com/2008/10/tadashi-goto-innervisions-2008-progrock.html

German review
www.soundbase-online.com/tadashi-goto-innervisions

French review
www.metalchroniques.fr/guppy/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=2261

...Innervisions consists of twelve tracks all in the four to five minute range and each is loaded with tons of notes. Most of the tracks tend to be faster paced, heavy guitar, double kick-drum and blazing keyboard runs. However every-so-often we get a slower track like “Inner Circle” (4:16) or “Werther Effect” (5:06) but even in the slower tracks Goto finds room to perform busy keyboard runs sometimes on piano and other times on synth. You get the feeling that Goto has a problem staying slow and is just dying to pick up the tempo. There is this sense your watching a steam compressor that’s building in pressure with every second and it’s about to blow at anytime. Most of the tracks tend to not veer too far from the core melody and rhythm established, although some of the compositions do make radical starts and stops, including the afore mentioned slower tracks that change course about three times during the performance. Sprinkled here and there are some interesting ethnic musical touches, a bit of Middle-Eastern or some Asian motifs. The overall tone is quite aggressive throughout this disc and captures a kind of Emerson Lake and Palmer performance style. The songs don’t sound at all like ELP, but the way they’re played has that same intense, busy quality that ELP was famous for. Goto’s keyboards are everywhere as to be expected, but you’ll also hear plenty of crunchy guitar and driving, rumbling bass work throughout...
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Portuguese review
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...The album rocks hard right off the bat with "Karma" displaying lots of fast guitar and keyboard interaction. Lots of interesting keyboard sounds make this one very electronic sounding. The beginning of "The Cycle Of The Suffering" has an almost 90's Rush sound and is another up-tempo number. For those of you who are Star Trek buffs you might find interesting some quotes can be heard here from the original series. The very jazzy "Inner Peace" has a nice melody that makes for a relaxing listen. The album ends with the jazz influenced "The Spirits Within" another mellow affair and not as interesting as some of the heavier tunes but pleasant nonetheless...
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Italian review
www.hardsounds.it/public/recensione.php?id=4677

French review
www.magicfiremusic.net/chronique.php?id=2344

Dutch review
www.progwereld.org/cms/?page_id=20009965

French review
www.progressia.net/index.php4?rub=chroniques&idchronik=1750

German review
www.heavyhardes.de/review-4659.html

Tadashi Goto is a Japanese keyboard player (he also plays the drums on this CD). This is his 2nd CD and to show how much respect people have for his debut you just have to look at the list of famous players that have contributed bass and guitar licks to this CD: Tony Levin, Chris Poland, Sean Conklin, Matt Bissonette, Tony Franklin, Randy George, Marco Ahrens, Brett Garsed, Jose Bernardo, Ty Tabor and Joseph Patrick Moore! Anyway, it is a pretty musically intense CD of instrumental rock music with a lot of influences. The CD mixes up these really intense fast paced complicated instrumentals with amazing bass playing, guitar and keyboard solos with tracks of what I would almost call new age keyboard synthesizer music. Overall, a great CD...
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Tadashi Goto is a Japanese keyboard player (he also plays the drums on this CD). This is his second CD and to show how much respect people have for his debut you just have to look at the list of famous players that have contributed bass and guitar licks to this CD: Tony Levin, Chris Poland, Sean Conklin, Matt Bissonette, Tony Franklin, Randy George, Marco Ahrens, Brett Garsed, Jose Bernardo, Ty Tabor and Joseph Patrick Moore! Anyway, it is a pretty musically intense CD of instrumental rock music with a lot of influences. The CD mixes up these really intense fast paced complicated instrumentals with amazing bass playing, guitar and keyboard solos with tracks of what I would almost call new age keyboard synthesizer music. Overall, a great CD.
aural-innovations.com/2009/january/goto.htm

While I'm fixated on the cover, I'll tell you this: Innervisions has the outward appearance of The Outer Limits. What's inside is not too far outside that topsy-turvy realm. The music is edgy and guttural like Gordian Knot. Rather than give bass and drums exclusive access to the driver's seat, the keyboards are on equal footing. While this screeching device is customarily whiny, it too has lead stumps. Mainly it's the guitars that deftly fly without a lot of wind current. Anyhow, if I had to sum up the album with just one reference, it's Izz's "Star Evil Gnoma Su." As to who will like it, the instrumental metal of this album will appeal mostly to jazz fusionists with heavier leanings. For instance, Aziola Cry would be a band which similarly reaches from the deepest inner mind to deluge you. Beyond that, there is nothing wrong with your equalizer and any other subplots will only further confuse the standard reader.
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