SAECULA SAECULORUM

It's been a joy listening to a few South American Symphonic albums of late including this one-off from Brazil. A six piece band although two different bass players with piano and violin dominating their sound and these two guys are incredible players. The violinist would land in SAGRADO CORACAO DA TERRA by the mid eighties and lead them, such a talented man.

This is a short one under 30 minutes but very consistent and well done, especially those first three tracks which are amazing. There are vocals in Portuguese but this is mostly instrumental. The opener which is the title track is the longest at 8 minutes and for me the highlight of the record. I can't say enough how talented the pianist and violinist are. I was thinking of Banks a lot with those piano melodies and he often opens each track making me think "Firth Of Fifth" just beautiful music. A lot of tempo changes and adventure happening throughout. Just a talented band who like many Italian bands left us with an absolute classic then disappeared. Love the guitar on here it's just not that prominent.

If those last two tracks were better I would be considering 5 stars here but as it is a solid 4 star star record that I highly recommend.