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 CD title - Professor Pandemonium's Cabinet of Wonders
by Douglas La Ferle

 Let Monkeys Rule /   Gave and Take /   Pandemonium Ensues /   Origami Heart /   Another Love / 

 Sir Paul and Rebel John /   Waves of Darkness /   X-Ray Eyes /   Just Be Friends /   Bimbo Bambo / 

 The Night Weeps /   I Can Love You /   Crazy /   Poetry in the Lies /   There is No Time /   Lydia / 

Talk about covering a lot of musical real estate on one 16 track CD. Douglas La Ferle's release of "Professor Pandemonium's Cabinet of Wonders" is an amazing journey back to the 60's and 70's when artist's (on some record labels) where allowed to stretch beyond their collective comfort zones. Bands like, the Beatles, The Mothers of Invention and later with Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and King Crimson. Each of the bands mentioned released albums that were not confined to a single genre as the Beatles introduced folk, rock, vaudeville and even elements of classical music to many albums. Jetho Tull covered folk, celtic, rock, progressive rock and even elements of classical music all in the context of a single album.

This method of free form music would be nearly impossible in the corporate dominated radio friendly world of music that we live in today. Thank God for the independent artist who is not tied down to one single genre and is allowed to experiment with many musical interests as is the case with this CD.

Part circus, part sideshow and part illusion, this music takes you to a world inhabited with extraordinary images - a girl with x-ray eyes, a tattooed lady, a man cursed to leave a wake of destruction. This musical sleight-of-hand is guaranteed to leave you entertained, amazed and amused with a dazzling display of aural virtuosity to capture the imagination.

I can't really describe the music because the mood changes with almost every song. When I first listened to the CD I thought to myself that La Ferle was out of control and all over the place. Then after a few listens I realized that I was being musicially removed from 2011 and returned to the early 1970's. A time when bands went out of their way not to sound like another band. Nobody sounded like the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin or The Who. Even Frank Zappa said it was a great time for music invention because the cigar smoking executives didn't understand what was going on. They just saw the money coming in and blindly went with the program. It wasn't until they hired younger A&R people did the music (and the business) become less exciting. The new breed of younger executives became interested in duplicating successfull acts by giving us more acts that sounded like the other acts they signed. Track #1 tells the story better then any song I've ever heard. The title is 'Let the Monkeys Rule' and how fitting could that be?

This CD covered a lot of ground and it would be difficult and extremely expensive to release a CD this diverse and have it sound amazing. What the CD lacked in sonic brilliance more than made up for it in content and story. The CD does not give studio credits so no need to harbor over a few minor sonic issues.

If you are under the age of 30 you may not understand the idea of a concept album (assuming you have the attention span to listen to a CD from beginning to end). For the folks that grew up listening to an album or CD from begin to end and taking in all the direction the artist wanted to take you this CD might be for you. Douglas La Ferle has a work to be proud of.

For that I give this CD 4 1/2 stars out of 5. I loved it!