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The Tom Curiano Demo's featuring Jon Anderson

Tom Curiano is one of a number of musicians who have entered into an internet collaboration in recent years with Jon Anderson drafting and creating new music. Jon likes to offer snippets of work he has done over the internet and recently organised some of these collaborations into a "demo CD" CD Survival and Other Stories which I purchased at the recent Jon and Rick concerts. These have resulted in some of Jon's best work for sometime but none of this material outshines this wonderful batch of music and it is to be hoped that Jon will return to Tom and complete these pieces for a professional release.   Knowing –An important rotating motif starts the piece great vocal arrangement and strong performance from Jon. If you judge music by the intelligence/knowledge it reflects this is up there with Olias and the Jon & Vangelis series. This is modular like Brian Wilson and by wrapping together a sympathetic idea builds up the emotional commitment to the music. The third se