Lummy, Venice, California must be a fab place. It has certainly kept Auger and family in a peace-and-love groove for many a year, and this latest release, as full of glistening Rhodes as it is the trademark Hammond, is no exception. What makes Language Of The Heart a shade different is that Auger was invited to record this as a solo album, even if most of the guys on board are associated with Auger's other projects. So we have him on vocals (well, he can't leave it all to his daughter!), plus he wrote most of the material and the heartfelt if, dare one say, hippy dippy lyrics. But this is no vanity project – the presence of ‘Skunk’ Baxter brings a not surprising but most welcome Steely Dan groove to the likes of ‘Venice Street Fair’, although the distinctly Steely ‘Flying Free’ is actually lit up by Coryell Jr who has picked up a gene or three from dad. This wheel's still on fire, no matter how the decades pass.