Friday, December 23, 2022

Estate Di San Martino. L' - ESM 40 (2015)

The third album from this band from Italy.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, saxophones, flutes, bagpipes and vocals.

A vocalist added some extra vocals to this album.

Their first two albums was a mix of Pink Floyd'ish psych and RPI. The music was softly spoken and pastoral. 

There was always a jazz element in their music. That jazz element has fully broken through on ESM 40.

This album is dominated by the saxophones and the other instruments, including vocals, plays a secondary role to the saxophone.

There are at times almost some Soft Machine vibes over the saxophones and the music.

The final part of this sees some vocals and a song.

The main theme and music here is laid back jazz. Pastoral jazz, almost.

The quality is somewhere between decent and good. This is so far their least good album. 

I will review their new album in the coming days and I hope that one is better than this one.

2.5 points

 

 

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