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QUEEN OF THE OCEAN
Written by Greger Rönnqvist

The symphonic rock queen Lana Lane is releasing albums with a very short interval. The only band that I know that is surpasses her in that case is the Swedish progressive rock kings The Flower Kings with all their members. Another thing they have in common is that none of them is suffering in quality because of this. Long live the kings and the queen!

This is her fourth studio album, but in-between them she has also released a live album, an EP and a ballad collection with some new material on. Beside that she has also done guest appearances together with the progressive rock band Rocket Scientists. The main part of the members of Rocket Scientists is also participating as musicians on all of Lana Lane's albums.

As I was first impressed and later got used to the high quality of Lana Lane's songs, her strong crystal clear voice and the melodic memorable choruses, there was no surprise that this album followed the same line. Beside Lana's passionate and beautiful voice, I have to give credits to Erik Norlander, the great producer and keyboard wizard. He used a lot of old keyboards on this album: Mellotron, Mini-Moog and Hammond. This is advantageous to the album as a whole. I must also mention Neil Citron, the guitar virtuous and Tony Franklin (The Firm, Blue Murder etc.) the bass maestro. The best tracks are "Let Heaven In", "Without You" and "Through The Rain".

The cover art "Fever Two" is once again done by the Polish artist Jacek Yerka, who has done the art work for all Lana's releases up to date.

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