Senses is a progressive rock band that was formed in November 1994, by the self-taught musicians Joan Morbée (vocals, keyboards, Acoustic Guitar, composer and bandleader) and Don Digiacopo (bass guitar). They are from New Jersey, USA. Their influences are many. Ranging from progressive and rock bands from the 60's and 70's such as Yes, King Crimson, ELP, Jethro Tull, The Who and Led Zeppelin to several jazz, new age and classical artists such as Copland, Holst, Vivaldi and Bernstein. Maybe you can ad a slice of Pink Floyd, Camel and Dream Theater to the list as well. They sound very professional.

This is their impressive debut release, and it also features session musicians Bruce Uchitel (lead guitar) and Vinnie DeNunzio (drums), making this a four piece line-up. Maybe you can label it song based, folky / country, melodious, hard / symphonic / art / progressive rock (I know it sounds crazy, but it isn't). Joan's voice reminds of Jon Anderson, Geddy Lee and Steve Perry (although she's a girl), and all track's are written by her. In fact when I first heard her I thought she was a man.

The album keeps you interest all the songs through, because each track is different from the other. The best songs are the tracks: "Under The Weight Of The Rain", "In The Light Of The Moon / Reflection / High Tide" (9 minutes long) and also "Burn The Candle Down". The most catchy songs are "Take A Stand" and "Free", and they are very good. I think that those two tracks could appeal to a wider and bigger audience. This is an album with very beautiful songs, and the use of a real piano instead of keyboards is a very good move. Unfortunately there is only six songs on this album making it rather short.

With the right promotion I think that we hopefully are going to hear more from this very promising group in the future.

Yeah, this is good! Very tight and melodic progressive rock, with a stress on ROCK. It's music written by female Joan Morbée we're talking about. All songs on this album are very easy listening in a way, in the meanwhile as they are quite messy. Or messy maybe isn't the right word. The songs have different parts sometimes and so, but in general it's quite easy. But it's good and that's the main purpose, right? Sounds a lot like acoustic rock, sort of like Heart, even if the band is a full setting with electric guitars. About Joans' voice (she also does keyboards and acoustic guitars). It's a very mature female voice, and I'm guessing that there is a lot of Ann Wilson (Heart) in her music collection.

This 6-tracked album sounds really good as said before, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone, if you just can accept female vocals, which I think many can or even prefer. Check this one out!