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http://melodicrevolutionrecords.com/album/aethellis
http://www.aethellis.com

Music ℗© 2003 Ellsworth R. Hall
Video by Cheryl and Ellsworth Hall. Featuring Mark Van Natta on guitar. With Erik and Chris Marks.

Video by Cheryl Hall; taped at St. James concert hall, Parkton MD, September 2009

"Djibouti" is from the eponymously titled Aethellis album:

The main influence I detect is Tony Banks, mainly his more progressive pieces from his solo albums. Hall's playing reminds me much more of Banks than of Wakeman or Emerson for example. Most of the songs on Aethellis would fit well on a Banks album, consisting mainly of a song based part followed by an instrumental section featuring a lot of keyboard soloing. A few exceptions, the beginning of Saint Augustus has a stong UK feel and Djibouti is an instrumental that somewhat reminds me of In that Quiet Earth from Genesis' Wind & Wuthering. - ProGGnosis

Musically this is very much in the vein of mid-80s Camel, Alan Parsons' best work or maybe a bit of Kayak. Very tuneful and melodic but with an eye on the prog scene as well. The songs are well-recorded and pleasant to listen to but also have prog sections that would have been right at home on Camel's "Stationary Traveller" or Tony Banks' "A Curious Feeling". Lots of fine piano work & the occassional Banks-like synth lead dominate the keyboard arrangements. - ZNR Records

Both of the last tracks on the album: "Djibouti" and "Final Affinity," the first of which is an instrumental piece, are about a lushly orchestrated, quite diverse, and tasteful Classic Symphonic Art-Rock. - ProgressoR