“It would be unfair to describe the message as cliché, but might there be a more inventive way of conveying it?” Neal Morse’s supergroup Cosmic Cathedral reassert their beliefs on debut album Deep Water

Cosmic Cathedral – Deep Water.

God knows Neal Morse loves a project. Driven and prolific, late last year he released No Hill For A Climber, an album with some younger, lesser-known talents under named The Resonance. Now comes Deep Water, the debut album by Cosmic Cathedral, a supergroup of sorts, again instigated and masterminded by Morse.

He’s on vocals, guitar and keyboards, with Chester Thompson (Genesis, Weather Report) on drums; veteran guitar magus Phil Keaggy, who also shares lead vocals; and Byron House (Robert Plant, Al Green) on bass. They may have an average age of 70, and Keaggy’s hand tendon surgery may have slowed the album’s gestation – but all four remain extremely capable players.