IAN GILLIAN - "One Eye To Morocco" - 2009 - Eagle Rock Enterainment


When you've reached legendary status like Deep Purple's Ian Gillian you can pretty much do what you want and "One Eye To Morroco" is an example of a guy just doing some fun music he wants to do. Most of the material is considerably lighter than the Deep Purple material, but I found myself enjoy the laid back "at the beach" atmosphere. He almost got into some Jimmy Buffet ground on the album. It's a very relaxing project with some fine grooves and melody. He sounds like he's a guy enjoying retirement somewhere warm and sunny. He shows why he should be mentioned more often by the press too, no offense to others from this age group, but Deep Purple and Gillian are far more influential than they get credit for. Gillian proves here that you don't have to rip your face off every time out to make an enjoyable album, maybe I'm getting older too, but I really enjoyed the music on "One Eye To Morroco". I'm just glad he's making new music and from the sounds of it, enjoying himself, he certainly deserves it.