EXTREMOS (AS JAIME ROSAS TRIO)

This CD is not by the Jaime Rosas Cuarteto but Jaime Rosas Trio as I noticed while reading the front cover. These musicians from Chile, almost the end of the world, has delivered an exciting and varied CD.

1. Breve Pieza Rockera VI (3:37) WOW, what a first track: a super-dynamic rhythm-section and flashy synthesizer runs, this trio immediately showscases their talents and bombastic keyboard-driven progrock sound that has echoes from Japanese band GERARD.

2. Breve Pieza Rockera VII (3:20) This piece is based upon a harder-edged electric guitar with fiery and howling runs, supported by a powerful rhythm-section and to my surprise no keyboards. In the end my attention slips a bit away.

3. Sonido Vital Uno (3:33) A solo exhibition from Jaime Rosas on the piano featuring virtuosic classical play, often very sparkling.

4. Breve Pieza Rockera VIII (2:42) This track has a very bombastic climate. The rhythm-section sounds dynamic, the synthesizer work is excellent with hints from KEITH EMERSON, including fat and spectacular sounds. Then a slow rhythm with powerful drums and gradually it becomes more and more propulsive, evoking the splendid and exciting interplay from RUSH.

5. Breve Pieza Rockera IX (3:10) Here first a mid-tempo with powerful drums and harder-edged electric guitar and then a slow rhythm featuring wonderful, very sensitive electric guitar work. Halfway the atmosphere turns into progmetal with a super-dynamic rhythm-section and fiery electric guitar runs.

6. Sonido Vital Dos (6:03) This song contains beautiful classical orchestrations and the sparkling classical pianoplay reminds me of RICK WAKEMAN.

7. Breve Pieza Rockera X (2:23) A bombastic climate with flashy synthesizer flights and a propulsive rhythm-section, very exciting.

8. Tiempos de Paz (2:45) The emphasis in this piece is on the classical piano work, from tender to sparkling, supported by soaring keyboards.

9. Viajero Astral (15:14) The final composition delivers average Spanish vocals (I had expected more emotion) and lots of shifting moods and rhythms, from mellow and a slow rhythm to mid - or up-tempo and bombastic. The keyboards (organ, piano, synthesizer) sound often sensational, I enjoyed the sensitive electric guitar solo and the rhythm-section is very propulsive. After a one minute silence this composition ends with a very bombastic climate delivering sensational synthesizer flights and a propulsive rhythm-section, EXCITING in the vein of GERARD's TOSHIO EGAWA!