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CHROMATIC FREEDOM

Dialeto

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3 stars An album I won in the monthly PA price giving........

And a good gift, it is. Dialeto from South America has a pretty unique sound I find difficult to both pinpoint and describe. Dialeto has taken a lot from both the punk scene, King Crimson and some Britpop bands which later was very influenced by punk. Add a substantial Middle Eastern feel and a lot of technical trickery. Hence the strong references to King Crimson. I think both Dialeto and this album would get a nod of approval from Robert Fripp if he ever listened to it. The music is that original and KC'ish.

The main instruments on this album are the rather dissonant and weird vocals, the both heavy, dissonant and melodic guitars, bass and drums. The sound is crystal clear, beefy and very much gets the best out of the songs here.

The quality of the music is very good throughout this album. The music is plainly weird and King Crimson'ish though so it may not be everyone's taste. This album is close to be a great album too. But my only gripe is the lack of any truly great songs here. But their sound is great and I believe this is a band capable of also sorting out some great songs in the future. Everything else is there in their sound. Close but not quite there yet.

3.5 stars

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3 stars Dialeto is a Brazilian Prog band that started in late 80's but just really started their career in late 00's. Chromatic Freedom (2010) is their second album and weird and strange are good words for it.

In general, Chromatic Freedom (2010), has weird and unusual ideas. First of all the whole concept of the album. Chromatic scale is a musical term and the Chromatic scale uses all the 12 semitones in the musical scale, which means that every song is a semitone away from the previous one.

Musically speaking Dialeto has nice ideas like the weird riff in 'We Got It All' and you gotta love the weird vocals in the album too. 'Está No Ar' is another interesting one. While Eu Me Lembro' has many speeches throughout the track, 'Divided By Zero' is the fastest in the album.

Dialeto is a different band, period! It's not easy to 'swallow' their music and you have to listen several times to actually get what's going on. But it's worthy!

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