After two failures, which were intended to conquer the commercial market, guitarist Al Di Meola is back to his last. The collaboration with Russian singer Leonid Agutin on Cosmopolitan Life and Vocal Rendezvous, his collaboration with pop and R&B artists, earned him quite a few negative reviews and certainly not the financial gain he had in mind. Consequence Of Chaos can be regarded as the
… successor to the highly acclaimed Flesh On Flesh from 2002. Here too he alternates between complex acoustic and electric playing and influences from world music play a major role. He is also in good company with acquaintances such as keyboard players Barry Miles and Chick Corea, drummer Steve Gadd and bass player John Patitucci. Despite his virtuoso playing, a few lounge-like forays into world music prevent Di Meola from reaching the chilling level of his first three CDs. (AD)more
