LIVE WITH DAVID CROSS

DIALETO are a power trio out of Brazil playing in that KING CRIMSON style for the most part. Their lineup has changed over the years but the guitarist Nelson Coelho has remained the constant plus his relationship with Fabio Golfetti who mixed and mastered this one but has played guitar on previous albums. Fabio is from VIOLETA DE OUTONO and the INVISIBLE OPERA COMPANY OF TIBET and the drummer of that last band I mentioned is here Fred Barley. The bass player Gabriel Costa is is from VIOLETA DE OUTONO.

On DIALETO's previous studio album I lamented that David Cross was only on one track, well he's on stage with this trio playing on nine of the thirteen tracks. The music of DIALETO here is from their previous album "Bartok In Rock" while the final five songs include four songs from KING CRIMSON and one from a David Cross solo album. So some covers.

The KING CRIMSON songs are awesome and Coelho uses his mellotron guitar on "Starless". This is a powerful band and the vocals sound so authentic too like John Wetton is singing. There is some serious angular guitar on "Talking Drum". Of the band's songs these are "rock" interpretations of Bela Bartok's music, the Hungarian composer and I do like these better than the ones on the studio album.

This is a very strong album and well worth the 4 stars.