Steve Lukather-"I found the sun again"

 

 

 

New solo work from Steve lukather and the guitar mastermind behind TOTO delivers an aw always diversified album full of variety and sonically challenging. The opening "Along for the ride" and "I found the sun again" is the closest you'll get to his day job band. The most rocking song and as always top of the top. But it is the one that is most limiting the man who uses his personal album as an outlet to offer his own unique artistic vision. Blues,jazz, fusion, funk, soul and some beautiful instrumentals are the final result.

The players feature many musical comrades of Lukather with a heavy cv,  Amongst those are drummer Greg Bissonette, keyboardist Jeff Babko, and bassists Jorgen Carlsson and John Pierce.  Toto band-mate David Paich performs piano and organ across the album, while Joseph Williams sang on multiple tracks alongside writing string and horn arrangements and tracking keys on "Run To Me." Both Paich and Williams co-wrote that specific composition, while band leader of the All-Starrs, Ringo Starr (THE BEATLES) makes a special appearance on the recording and in the video."I Found The Sun Again " features five new original compositions, and three covers, Traffic's "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys," Joe Walsh's "Welcome To The Club," and Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs." 

 

 

An album that shows us his other sides that we have the pleasure to see, mostly during the jams and his solo when he performs live with TOTO. A more complex or laid back Lukather who stands among today's great guitar heroes and has a lot in common with EVH as also with Allan Holsdsworth. That is why you need to be open minded to listen and understand the free jam form "Serpent soul" or even more at the cover of Traffic's "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys," and the instrumental "Journey through". Although the closing track t he cover of Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs." is a mind blowing rendition of the song and a real explosion of feelings for the guitarist.

 

 

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