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Kostas Maginas: Seven For A Secret

by Mark Sabbatini
May 6, 2005

The concept of Led Zeppelin-meets-Celtic might seem like too much to wrap your brain around, but Kostas Maginas makes the process easy. Maybe too easy.

Seven For A Secret, the second album by the guitarist from Thessaloniki, Greece, is as smooth as a Pat Metheny Group release but with a more ethnically diverse tonal presence. While interesting and pleasant, it also falls short of its artistic potential by too often feeling conventional, instead of delving deeper into some ...