Springsteen fans must have had a shock if they sought out these releases having clocked Sancious on The Boss' first three albums. Produced by Billy Cobham, Forest Of Feelings is epic big noise prog, the opening cut making ELP sound minimalist by comparison. There's no doubting Sancious' precocious talents on keys and frets (catch the mayhem on ‘Come On If You Feel Up To It~’) but nailing them to an equally impressive composition seems to elude him. That said, the re-working of ‘Dixie’ remains one of the more curious prog evocations ever laid down. The jazz bit of the jazz-rock label comes more to the fore on Transformation, with the trio now a touring entity as Tone. The Mahavishnu influences are more apparent, especially on the acoustically vibed ‘The Play and Display of the Heart’. It's no surprise that Sancious the sideman (hey, you got McLaughlin and Hammer in one package!) landed work with Stanley Clarke and Jack Bruce on the back of it. There's significantly more guitar than on the debut, including the interminable ‘Sky Church Hymn 9’, but if you wondered why ‘fusion’ became a pejorative term, look no further.