Electronic keyboards can be very dangerous things without a budget.
He's a bold producer with an ear for the colorful, fills his album with excellent backing musicians, and shows flashes of genuine cleverness in his songwriting. He's a talent, and One To Watch. Kouba's originality and potential are easily missed, though, because of his overreliance on tinnily piping keyboard voices, which threaten to brand the album with the mark of the sophmoric. Kouba has a taste for the big, dramatic and multi-layered, but he either has inconsistent taste in keyboard sounds or a limiting armory of low quality gear. The hyper video game sound effects sometimes emphasize the macho strutting and primping of his earnest vocals.