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LP CAI
Mas Allá De Nuestras Mentes Diminutas
Country of release: Sweden, 2015
Original released: 1979
Label: Tone Arm
Catalogue number: Tone 1001
Barcode: 7339324410015
Klappcover/Gatefold Sleeve: Ja/Yes
Condition Record: MINT
Condition Cover: MINT
LP ist noch verschweißt / LP IS STILL SEALED !!!
(Photo von meiner eigenen LP / Photo taken from my own copy)
Tracks Side 1:
1. Mas Allá De Nuestras Mentes Diminutas (9:25)
2. Solución A Un Viejo Problema (7:23)
Tracks Side 2:
1. Alameda (6:12)
2. Pasa Un Dia (10:50)
Listen At YouTube:
Cai are a vintage Spanish
symphonic prog band from the late Seventies, and right from their debut `Más
Allá de Nuestras Mentes Diminuta' in '79, the group offered a truly superb
collection of melodic arrangements with lively instrumental displays. There's so
much infectious positive energy racing through the four tracks here, the band
incorporating everything from grooving jazz/fusion guitar funkiness and spacy
keyboard atmospheres, in addition to instantly appealing Spanish vocal passages,
delivered with a warmth and passion only rivalled by plenty of singers from the
Italian discs of the same era.
After a stormy rising and falling symphonic
synth and mellow guitar strains introduction, the almost ten minute opener
`Alameda' diverts briefly into some Genesis-like pomp before transforming into a
frantic rocker. Thick pulsing bass, cascading synth runs and deranged drums duel
and race alongside each-other, and Spanish flavours woven to some grooving hard
guitars really start to cook once they take off and solo frantically in the
second half. Constant and thrilling jazz-fusion instrumental runs tear through
`Más Allá...' with breakneck energy and speed. Purring relentless bass,
manically biting and funky electric guitar strumming and glistening electric
piano is sprinkled over every inch of it, with some darker themes aided by
imposing deep-space synths emerging in the latter half as well.
`Solucion
A Un Viejo Problema' begin as a more pleasing rock ballad, a mellow tune that
takes on some magical Yes-like qualities and murmuring bass so fluid that it
leaps about as if it's actually singing! But there's plenty of time in the final
minutes for the tune to burst up in tempo and shoot off with nimble fingered
synth/electric piano flashes and electric guitar taking on a seriously cutting
snarl! The eleven minute closer `Pasa Un Dia' rocks with momentum and purpose.
Fading in with distortion, electric piano tip-toes and a howling lead vocal,
it's all just a framing device for the band to shoot through the stars to the
intergalactic nightclub with an improvised space-rock delirious jam - go on, hit
the dance-floor with your tentacled space babe - no judgement! This section is
all grooving swagger and sweaty grooves with plenty of loopy synth noodling. The
twinkling star-field electronic pause that follows only lets you catch your
breath for a second before the disc closes on a vocal reprise and slow-burn
simmering guitar finale alongside raucous drumming.
Don't be put off by
the brisk running time of barely 33 minutes. It may be short, but it's pretty
much adventurous rock music perfection that entire time, and with the album not
long enough to allow any filler to infiltrate, there's not a wasted or throwaway
second. `Más Allá de Nuestras Mentes Diminuta' is a showcase for a group of
incredibly skilled musicians delivering fiery instrumental displays within tight
song arrangements, and the fact that it's a debut album is astounding, just so
much confidence and talent coursing through every second of it. One thing's for
sure also - not as many albums will put you as great a mood as this one!
(Aussie-Byrd-Brother/progarchives.com)
José Laureano Vélez -
Bass
Diego Fopiani - Drums, Vocals
Paco Delgado - Guitar
Sebastián
Dominguez - Keyboards
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