isadore have a new cd out, it's called 'life somewhere else' and i have played it once in my usual ritual of playing the church related music, the conditions must be perfect, no interruptions, no distractions, no speaking, no telephones, i usually attain an altered states and just listen. 
the verdict is... it's magnificent, i really love it, which i know will come as no surprise but my god... this is amazing music, and steve's singing and lyrics are getting better and better as time progresses. remember this is a man who is master of his skills, he don't need introduction, he's got his great work and that says it all, his history speaks for itself but watching his genius grow is an incredibly beautiful thing. his collaborations are equally as brilliant, quite different and somewhat remarkable in the way they maintain a very high quality, something almost pure and on occasions pure. the ideal is reached. 
but with this cd mr. cain has created a very interesting layer of sounds to lay steve's words and voice upon, it is from my perspective an architecture. i can see a building when i hear this music, it's like the pyramids, astrologically perfect but suspended in space and time just like tanelorn or interzone. but this city rotates, it gleams and glistens, it's intricate and complex, not just made of bricks and steel, it is created from some sort of crystalline structure, this is something from the future, like a roger dean painting. (there should be a word for a image of the future from the past. what would you call that? retro future nostalgia).
well this building is from the future but it's defiantly close to a roger dean picture, a strange curious perfect shape hanging in blue skies above a tranquil ocean or still forest, this building is a city is huge and populated by all types of lifeforms, it contains gardens, jungles, lakes and fields, a vast array of life fills it. the building is shaped like a polyhedron, a diamond shape that also contains the mystery of human experience, sadness, loss and tragic heartache, it's all in crammed in here played out on this cosmic stage, the universe.
hear the hurt and sorrow, all here in this strange wonderful structure. a self enclosed space that is rich with immense beauty to explore, it's life somewhere else but it's life, i understand this veil of tears. this is a beautiful pice of music people, it's strong and mighty and that's the power that keeps the structure defying gravity. we all know that building, we have all been there or we are all going there, it's the place where things that are falling apart are healed.