When artists say that their latest album is a whole lot better than their previous one, you will often explain that as appropriate enthusiasm for a creation which have been dominating them for a while, at which that previous one is mostly wrongly considered as the lesser one.

With "Genesis", the second album by the Greek guitarist Achilleas Diamantis, that recently was published under the group name Confusion, this also seemed the case. His first CD, "Confusion", you see, is an attractive collection of jazz-rock related pieces. But after listening to "Genesis" we have to agree with Achilleas; his firstling doesn't fade into a weak one, (it's true), but "Genesis" is such a great step forwards that makes that his enthusiasm is correct.

Most important cause for this is that this album is much more a tight group affair, in which excel next to the guitar-player (who's also responsible for guitar-synthesizer and Tribal Tech-like keyboard programming) Panagiotis Haramis (bass) and Takis Intas (drums), while in two