Hi, somewhere I read this war Mike's album after the cure "Exegesis". Some reviewers write it's fresh because of that.
I don't quite understand this viewpoint.

This album sounds to me like a labyrith...no way out, no way in... It sounds like a torture sometimes, sometimer like a revelation, sometimes like a bore. Well, not all too different from the previous albums.

That's why I wanted to ask: what is the "mental state" issue of this album?
>> From what I've read Mike only wrote part 1 and 4 after his exegesis course.
I think you can hear a difference. Parts 2 and 3 are more dreamlike. Parts 1 and 4 are more bouncy and energetic. There's almost a disco-like rhythm towards the end of part 1.

At the time Mike said his favorite part of Incantations was the beginning of part 4 - and there's almost a jazz/fusion influence there.

Mike worked a lot with Pierre Moerelen at the time, and Pierre was a scientologist. Many musicians was into these kind of things.

>> I think it might be mixed. Only the middle of part 3 can be described as "dreamlike" to me. Sections of part 4 are, I think, the oldest parts of the album.