Member:
BrianG
(Profile)
(All Album Reviews by BrianG)
Date:
10/3/2006
Format:
CD (Album)
This album follows a brilliant formula for symphonic progressive music. Amarok finds a great melody sung by the band's amazing female vocalist (who has a distinct Spanish flourish and form), or played on a traditional acoustic instrument, adding an intro and an outro and embellishing with appropriate electric and acoustic instrumentation. It works throughout this unique album.
Andalucia is the part of Spain subject to influences from North Africa, France, and all over the Mediterranean. Amarok uses all these exotic sounds in their own context. In Tierra Boreal, for example, they use flamenco guitar with Spanish rhythms and oud with Turkish background, all within an exciting rock form. Without capitulating to standard formulas, songs such as “Bocins De L'Emporada” and the title track suite keep your interest and challenge you to update your references to Spanish music. These people know their neighbors.
|
|
|
