El Reloj - El Reloj II (1976) FR Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
El Reloj - El Reloj II
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 900mb
Label: Acid Nightmare Records/ANM013 | Released: 1976 | This Issue: 2015 | Genre: Hard-Progressive
A1 Al Borde Del Abismo
A2 Tema Triste
A3 La Ciudad Desconocida
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B1 Aquel Triángulo
B2 Harto Y Confundido
B3 Tema De Todas Las Épocas
B4 Aquella Dulce Victoria
B5 Egolatría
Credits
Artwork – Horacio Fontova
Bass – Eduardo Frezza
Drums – Juan Esposito
Guitar – Carlitos Mira*, Fernando Gardi, Osvaldo Zabala
Keyboards – Luis Valenti
Liner Notes – Nietzsche*
Notes
Reissue in thick gatefold cover.
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 900mb
Label: Acid Nightmare Records/ANM013 | Released: 1976 | This Issue: 2015 | Genre: Hard-Progressive
A1 Al Borde Del Abismo
A2 Tema Triste
A3 La Ciudad Desconocida
-
B1 Aquel Triángulo
B2 Harto Y Confundido
B3 Tema De Todas Las Épocas
B4 Aquella Dulce Victoria
B5 Egolatría
Credits
Artwork – Horacio Fontova
Bass – Eduardo Frezza
Drums – Juan Esposito
Guitar – Carlitos Mira*, Fernando Gardi, Osvaldo Zabala
Keyboards – Luis Valenti
Liner Notes – Nietzsche*
Notes
Reissue in thick gatefold cover.
El Reloj - El Reloj II (1976) FR Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
El Reloj - El Reloj II (1976) FR Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
El Reloj - El Reloj II (1976) FR Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
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One of South America’s better groups, El Reloj had an all too brief recording 70’s career and just two albums, their debut being in a much harder rock vein in the Purple line. This one is much proggier and is in my top ten South American records. Just like its predecessor’s reissue, the album starts out with bonus tracks (which I always found rather unsettling and non-respectful of the album itself. Fortunately this occurrence is rare enough in prog (I can only think of Germany’s Parzival with an even stranger set up where bonus tracks bookend the album tracks.
Nevertheless these bonus tracks are worthy of the album’s quality even if they do not sound like they came from the album session, but this is minor and they actually extent the disc length to acceptable duration. And this album is rather unlike a lot of other Argentine prog album, which have a tendency to sound Italian Symphonic-like prog rock. It is rather more in the line of Bubu’s superb sole album, with plenty of power, demented music a bit of a cross between Crimson and ELP, but without Emo’s doodlings. The line-up is your standard prog quartet with an added guitarist/violinist, but unfortunately, the violin is not used enough, but the group does not really need it to sound original and unique.
While over half the tracks are sung, the vocals are not overly present and plenty of space is given to the music. If most tracks are rather short (except for an 11-min slightly flawed epic) remaining around the 4-min mark, the album is a very even affair with all tracks being eventful and energetic, if not frantic. In this light, it is rather hard to find one track that is a highlight, so if I must risk myself, it’ll be a trio: Tema Triste, Harto Y Confundido and Egolatrio. A real must if you want to check out what Latinos can do in prog, but it is not really representative of their country’s output. Nothing wrong with that , on the contrary. Rounded to the upper unit.Review by Sean Trane, progarchives.com
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