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Title - Unconditioned
Artist - Intelligent Music Project VII

For those unaware, the Bulgarian rock band Intelligent Music Project have just released its seventh studio album entitled Unconditioned, and trust me when I tell you it was well worth the wait!

The legendary Simon Phillips (TOTO, Protocol) returns as percussionist and musical co-producer of the new album, while the lead vocalist on this release will again be one of the most popular names in rock music today: Ronnie Romero (Rainbow, MSG).

This will be Romero’s third album with Intelligent Music Project, and for the first time the group has expanded its compositional approach: two of the songs are entirely the work of Ronnie, Biser Ivanov and Ivo Stefanov.

For the first time on Unconditioned, the band’s lead singer shows off his skills as a lyricist, having penned the words to those two songs. All the other songs and lyrics are once again the creation of Intelligent Music Project’s founder and producer, Dr. Milen Vrabevski.

In honor of the tenth anniversary of the band’s first album, The Power Of Mind, the seventh album follows its format and also begins and ends with instrumental tracks written by Dr. Milen Vrabevski in collaboration with Biser Ivanov and Ivo Stefanov.

1. Topic (Instrumental)
2. Intention
3. Sunshine Boulevard
4. How
5. Blue Morning
6. Soulmate
7. The Long Ride
8. Madness
9. And Stars Never Fall
10. Spirit
11 Wait for the Night
12. New Hero
13. Finale Grande (Instrumental)
14. Intention (Eurovision Song Contest 2022 Version) [Bonus Track]
15. Intention (Singback) (Instrumental) [Bonus Track]

This beautifully crafted and wholly creatively ambient new album opens on the scorching guitar balladry of the instrumental Topic and then brings us the exquisite AOR of Intention, the low slung, yet reaching ’80s-esque Sunshine Boulevard, and then comes the piano balladry of How, the clenched fist embrace within the vibrant Blue Morning, the atmospherically-charged Soulmate, and then we get the forthright rock of The Long Ride and the mid-tempo AOR (complete with Wurlitzer-imbibed creamy center) of Madness.

Next up is the free-wheelin’ And Stars Never Fall which is itself followed by the, at first, ornate piano ballad, but which subsequently ebbs and flows with a beautiful blues rock vibe within Spirit, and then we get the rambunctious Wait For The Night, the yearning New Hero and the soaring guitar instrumental of Finale Grande, this CD rounding out with two more versions of Intention.

Intelligent Music Project - Intention (Official Video)

Intelligent Music Project - New Hero (Official Video)

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