Globo
Vaciado de cemento, venas que se vuelven agua, en ese instante preciso, estoy perdido y voy perdiendo. Las horas se alargaron más de la cuenta. Los aliados se replegaron… tal vez fuera hora de usar ese último recurso. El papel me recibe con benevolencia, en su hogar me hospedo a precio justo, con suerte serán sólo dos noches. Lo ridículo de las celebraciones extranjeras me asusta en cuanto puede divisar ambas páginas de mi corazón al mismo tiempo. El vacío del globo se llena con un gas milagroso, ese que enfría la estratósfera. Ese gas desesperado y la bebida cítrica, juntos pueden vaciar el cemento de mis tripas.
This outstanding folk rock album, which I found in Manoel Macía's wishlist, sounds so authentically retro, that I wasn't sure if it's in fact a recording from the 70's. But no, this Spanish band really is a contemporary one. The music is basically quiet and meditative, with occasional uptempo outbursts, featuring a vibraphone as one of its lead instruments. Think of Jim McCarthy's "Illusion" with traces of "Jethro Tull" and "Gentle Giant". There's a one-hour live video on YouTube, showing the band performing "Prometeia" with narration in Spanish, as can be heard on the last four bonus tracks of this album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs2e2uTJHZE Note that drummer Cristian Suárez is wearing a "Magma" T-shirt... :-) Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
Basically a great album with top-notch songwriting... unfortunately bloated with annoying improvisations and other distracting noise, which wreck the wonderful musical arcs in an instant. As people sometimes say, "less would have been more"... Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
The lyrics alone are outstanding.
The album doesn't "flow" as good as their latest album Amazingous, but instead offers more experiments and stays even more quirky.
A track like "Teddy Bears" predates what will be A.M.A.Z.I.N.G a few years later.
Really, a must-have for any fan of awesome pop/rock/exerimental stuff. Chris <(")
Astonishingly, the first two minutes of this album (mostly the violin playing) reminded me of Tuvan tunes and then, when the rest of the band kicked in, I thought they sounded like the amazing Kotebel from Spain. That mixture get me hooked, although these comparisons didn't hold, because their doing their very own thing. St.Petersburg prog fusion...
And as Sven B. Schreiber, whose recommendation I have to thank once more, pointed out: Brilliantly played live recording! Carsten Pieper