If Not Now When CD

Since being introduced to a new generation of listeners via 2014's superb The Sleeping Beauties retrospective, veteran Grecian musician Vangelis Katsoulis has enjoyed something of a career revival. The man once dubbed Greece's "king of electronics" is in fine form on If Not Now When, his first new album since the turn of the decade. Musically, it inhabits a similar aural space to his acclaimed 1980s work - think new influenced melodies, complex neo-classical arrangements, Gigi Masin style chord progressions, and breathtaking beautiful instrumentation - and often feels cinematic in tone. There are occasional curveballs - see the minimalist ambient techno of "Grand Delusion" and pleasingly percussive, jazz-flecked "Tsake Take Tundrum" - but these merely emphasize the quality of Katsoulis's compositional skills.

Kenneth Bager // Musicfordreams, Bakerman