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Review of Ahab from DME Music:

Into the great white open to fathom the depth of one chase, the artist delivers another epic aural tale. Following his tendency of releasing an album every five years, Tony Garone goes from the space vastness of "Big Star Way" to the oceanic enormity of "Ahab" which, as one may guess, is based on "Moby Dick". Yet it's not a musical retelling of the familiar story but a personal interpretation of what lies below the literal surface - with a lighter touch than before: this time prog turns to clever pop, and the listener is gently hooked on the soft, layered vocals of the opener, "Ismael And The Sea", and is let free only when the journey ends, after the art rock spiritual swell in the title track. Quite like it was with one Captain and a certain whale.

There's some fusion and some world music in this buzzy mix, and one can do madful limbo to the "Queequeg" jive with its QUEENish chorus before delicately rocking to "The Pequod" that shows what a cracking band Garone leads now, his son Anthony an economic yet on-the-money guitarist. Still, the theatrical slant of "The Mission" falls out of the stylistic context, while the vaudeville that is "Confrontation And Destiny" fares fine, and the hymn "Candles Of The Ocean" nicely follows the Arabic ring of "Fedallah". Mostly enjoyable and always interesting, the album reveals its strata little by little - the more exciting is the way. Tony Garone engaged it again.