ESCENES

The excellent all-instrumental, melodic, symphonic album 'Escenes' is a beautifully refined piece of music art. The Spanish group Gotic only released this one album in 1978 then disappeared from view. The album isn't conceptual, as far as I can tell, but the albums songs all work together very well producing a unified album which is totally satisfying. The music revolves around the instrumentation of flute and electric keyboard with a solid rhythm section holding things together. Theres shadings of other instruments like acoustic and electric guitar which adds variety. The cover art is great too; free-flying gulls in a slightly surreal Roger Deanish landscape.