Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Sangre De Muerdago - O Camiño Das Mans Valeiras (2015)

The third album from this one-man-band from Spain.

Pablo C. Ursusson does the drums, shaker, hurdy gurdy, guitars and vocals.

Three guests added drums, harp, viola, guitars, dulcimer, flutes, backing vocals and female vocals.

Their debut album has some very lush folk rock/music. The band, make that Pablo, went for a bareboned, stripped down sound on their second album... and the result was a pretty poor album. So I wondered what Pablo would come up with on the follow up album. And where is the progressive rock in their sound as this band is on ProgArchives. 

Pablo has returned to most of the colours and lush sound he introduced on the debut album. There are a lot of male and female vocal harmonies here. The flutes is also very good here. Ditto for the acoustic guitars.

The progressive rock aspect is not particular present here and the band is more a mix of a lush folk music and folk rock band on this three quarters of an hour long album. 

That said, the music is decent enough and this is quite an enjoyable album. Melodic and enjoyable. This is album is an improvement on the two first albums.

2 points




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