Band : Los Angeles
Album title : Neverland
Label : Frontiers Records
Distributor : Rough Trade Benelux
Release Date : 04/12/2009
Release : CD

I was pleasantly surprised to hear the voice from Michele Luppi again.  I always was a fan of Vision Divine when he handled the vocals, but never thought I'd hear him sing AOR, let alone that it would become such a great album.  I must admit that somewhere between all the releases I seem to have missed out on the first Los Angeles album.
For this second Los Angeles album, Michele  and  Fabrizio Grossi (who plays bass and also did the production) got aided by contributions from Eric Ragno (China Blue), Joey Sykes (Hugo) and even ex Dokken-axeman George Lynch. Now I wouldn’t' call this a 100 % AOR album, cause some tracks sound a bit too heavy to be called AOR, but this doesn’t' imply it's an album that would not be appreciated by pure AOR fans.

Vision Divine fans, or those of you out there who liked Michele's singing, even if he can't hide that  his origins lie in Italy (beware, not that I mean that you hear an Italian accent, but of course you do notice that he's not a native English speaking person), should give this album a try.

87/100

Erik Morren.