Elsewhere, Jeremy's guitar adds sting and bite to prevent the predominantly uplifting ambience from becoming too saccharine. You can hear that Jeremy admires Anthony Phillips, because he almost captures the same moods as his idol. Also a large portion of Steve Hackett's and Andy Latimer's styles can be recognized. Jeremy straddles the line between prog rock and symphonic prog like Vangelis. His electric guitar work is articulate with a warm, light tone and his piano parts are often layered with various effects to add color and enhance mood.
Celestial City has a nice mix of moods and sounds that is very appealing.
The music is a mix of Camel, Genesis, The Moody Blues, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and Vangelis. His emotional guitar playing is reminiscent of Steve Hackett, Andrew Latimer and Anthony Phillips. All-instrumental albums can quite often get very tiring, but Jeremy has the ability to write beautiful and memorable melodies. Therefore he can grab the listener ' s attention throughout the entire album. This huge range of synths makes Wakeman's current arsenal look a bit thin, and that also becomes evident on the compositions as well, as this breathtaking instrumental 73-minute epic of an album illustrates, with a mighty set of symphonic prog tracks that just soar out of sight as the lead electric guitars and synths duel and interact to smokin' extent.