Whatever you may make of the album's title, that's not what it seems to be, as there's no sign of mimicry - masked or whatever. Raoul Ranoa, who's solely responsible for this one-man guitar fest, could have produced a good three records from the pieces gathered on this one. Gathered? Well, rather heaped on, than orderly laid down, but as soon as crazy fandango of "The Ballet Of Bones" rings away a sense sets in that there's a method to the madness. Romantic "Stacked Bravado" depicts that nicely.?Eclecticism rules the game here and created the rules of its own, and Master Eclectic would be Raoul's secret name if his country licks didn't merge so effortlessly with speed metal riffs, blues workouts and jazz picking - sometimes in the course of a single song. There's a lot of humor in there and a whole lotta love: all the procceeds from the CD go to the Humane Society that saves animals. But there's a real wild life in folk anthem "Proper Stella And The Irish Wolfhounds", fusion of "Myopia" and the baroque of "The Bumbling Villain Vs. The Defective Detective" - a real life! So why it all ends on such a sad note?