MUSICA URBANA (Spain) Agost Musica Urbana 1976 Canterbury de Catalunya! A dizzying mixture of styles from Zappa to Hatfield, with a strong Latin flavour throughout! m.youtube/watch?v=T8evPDn7fxk&fulldescription=1&gl=GB&client=mv-google&guid=&hl=en-GB Musica Urbana were formed in 1976, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain Members Joan Albert Amargas (keyboards, winds), Salvador Font (drums), Carles Benavent (bass), Luigi Cabanach (guitar), Enric Herrera (keyboards, 1976), Lucky Gury (keyboards, 1976-78) The first album by this astonishing Spanish prog crew (whose album link has sadly been down for ages elsewhere in the blogosphere) is filled to the brim with soaring and frequently dizzyingly dense ethno prog/fusion moves that remind me of both Yugoslavias R.M. Tocak and their fellow spanish prog traveller Gualberto, but with an eccentric and whimsically wandering (almost R.I.O.-like) approach to structure. The resulting mix, filled with dense pointillistic clusters of jazzy micro-activity and haunting symphonic prog themes is cut by subtly avant garde-ish strategies in a way that reminds me most of Italian avant prog titans Picchio Dal Pozzo. A thing to marvel at.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 14:06:39 +0000
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