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Alfredo Carrion - Los Andares Del Alquimista (1976) [Reissue 2003]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 207 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 77 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Progressive Folk Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: DRO East West (5046703322)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 207 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 77 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Progressive Folk Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: DRO East West (5046703322)
Alfredo Carrion made his first mark in the history of progressive rock in 1975 by writing the orchestral arrangements for Ciclos, Canarios' brilliant and blasphemous butchering of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. A year later he struck out on his own by writing the music for "Los Andares del Alquimista", a less extravagant but no less eclectic exploration of popular, classical and folk musics.Tracklist:
Actually, the first three songs very deftly and tastefully put folk-tinged pop music together with some symbolist poetry sung by an elegant female voice with classical-style tone and use of vibrato. The mood shifts of "Espejo Sumergido" and the lush progressions and soaring melody lines of "Tensa Memoria" are very much symphonic progressive characteristics. Only Carrión doesn't extend his compositions or arrangements, but very subtly deploys electric and acoustic guitars, strings, keyboards and choir to create highly effective and satisfying chamber-pop pieces that sound both rich and airy. The fourth song, "Romance", provides another accessible vocal melody, but has it sung by an equally trained male voice and accompanies it with layers of jagged arpeggios and fragmentary melodies on synthesizers and electric guitars to a much more "avant" effect.
The album's main item, in a progressive rock agenda at least, is the 16-minute title track, where Carrión expends his whole musical arsenal. Starting with piano and orchestra, it initially ambles through pleasant late-Romantic classical territory, with a few intentionally jestful melodic skips and detours, before revisiting Ravel's treatment of the domestic bolero dance with a brief orchestral crescendo topped by blaring saxophones that owe more to Coltrane than Ravel. After this, the rather pedestrian orchestral rock of the second section sounds both incongruent and anticlimactic. The final section builds on an arch Latin chant over a straightforward rock beat, gradually passing the melody on from the choir through the ranks of different orchestral and rock instruments. The effect is compelling, but in truth the elements of jazz, classical and rock music do not so much fuse as coexist. Carrión doesn't quite turn lead into gold, but he does end up with interesting composites.
Reminding of such Italian groups as Opus Avantra and Pierrot Lunaire with its stylistic eclecticism, "Los Andares del Alquimista" is an interesting enough album, though its delicately balanced sonic mixtures maintain their integrity better in shorter than extended format.
01. Espejo Sumergido
02. Tensa Memoria
03. Vino de Silencio
04. Romance
05. Los Andares del Alquimista (Soledades Compartidas)
Total time: 32:46
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