Jovian Storm

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Jovian Storm
Background information

Jovian Storm was a progressive rock band from the 1990s. Founding member Joel Kosche, who made his musical debut with this group, continued on to become the guitarist for the internationally-acclaimed rock band Collective Soul.

Jovian Storm's first and only album Magic Show showcased the talents of each band member with complex, unusual arrangements as with the title track, a 10-minute epic which included a piano/drum sonata midway. Today the album is a rare collector's find, due largely to the ex post facto fame of Kosche.

[edit] Albums

Jovian Storm released only one official album, Magic Show (1994), although a bootleg live album Magic Smiths exists. Magic Show and was both loved and hated by critics, loved for its virtuosity but hated for its instrumental overindulgence. Rolling Stone magazine called it "bold and beautiful" while Musician Magazine gave Magic Show only a 2-word review: "Magic Sh*t".

Jovian Storm @ Coca-Cola Theatre, Atlanta (1994)

A second album was in the works in 1995, reportedly intended to be even more ostentatious than the first (perhaps in defiant response to the critics). The second album was to contain a 40-minute piece unofficially titled "The Five-Part Trilogy", an apparent tongue-in-cheek reference to its own pretentiousness. However, for reasons unknown, this album was never finished. The bootleg Magic Smiths is reported to contain much of the unreleased material, performed live at the Coca-Cola Theatre in Atlanta, GA.