The debut album from this band from Spain.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, keyboards and flute.
Three guests added congas, percussion, violin and cajon.
This band is a new name to me. They have just released their fourth album and I got that one and their three first albums too. Hence.... I will review them all this autumn and winter.
This band has embraced the gifts given to us by Mahavishnu Orchestra and the other guitar based fusion bands. There is a lot of smoking hot guitars on this album.
The guitarist here Raul Mannola is perhaps not up there among the elite guitarists like for example John McLaughlin... but he still have some impressive guitar solos and licks on this album.
The second big solo instrument here is the flutes. There are some really smoking hot flute solos here from Juan Carlos Aracil.
All of this is backed up by some very good performances by the rest of the band too.
This one hour long album is indeed a smoking hot fusion album. There are more jazz here than rock, though. That is not a problem but I still just wanted to mention it.
Not everything here is great but there is enough here to put this band on my list of favourite bands from Spain. This is indeed a very good debut album and I hope the three other albums are as good as this one.
A new star in my universe has been born.
3.5 points
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