Have I ever told you about one of the best music albums in the World? Well… It’s not that I listen to this album over and over again every day, but as a piece of art, it truly stands out, and I’d like to just dedicate today’s post to it.

The album is called “Eye of the Beholder” and is by the infamous Chick Corea Elektric Band. Now, you may argue that it’s all “in the ears of the beholder” - it surely is, and this album surely is a hotchpotch and delicate fusion of almost every ‘classical’ musical genre out there - jazz, rock, latin, classical. You might not like this kind of music, and if I have to be frank with you - I’ve grown a bit apart from it, but its sheer composition is something worth admiring, even though you have to listen to it with the mind of the 1980’s. Also, the performance of the musicians is baffling at the very least.

This album sums up the ingenuity and exceptional capabilities of one of the finest jazz-fusion bands ever.
It can be heard again and again without dissapontment. Chick Corea’s unlimited talent for bringing together classical composition with jazz, rock and latin has never been so clearly expressed in any of his albums, except for this one. This album tought me to love jazz, it opened my eyes for the wonderful world of improvisation, which life is. I heard it, and I was hooked forever on jazz. I still remember the day I first laid my ears on it. It was like opening the doors to Narnia, having lived in a closet forever (no reference to any sexual pun here).

The album is almost a journey into the mind of Corea, told by a bunch of people who truly unites their virtuous capabilities into a blend of sometimes humorous, sometimes deeply serious and technically baffling orchestration.

A masterpiece of what music also can be.

On this day...

... in 2004: What comes behind, goes behind