PLESIOSAURIO

Three tracks worth around 45 minutes of music including the almost 26 minute middle track. A lot of meandering on this recording, lots of organ and guitar for the most part with vocals that come and go and usually they are brief. The drums don't exactly sound right but again it's that recording process. So this is of little value to me other than I'm hearing this band perform their music in front of a crowd.

Kind of cool that they took the title "Arsat-2 1/2" from the name of a satellite built by an Argentinian company. Nice art work too but the recording doesn't measure up unfortunately.

The short 2 1/2 minute third track with the long title is pretty much acoustic guitar, piano and fragile vocals starting and ending the song with more passion briefly starting before 2 minutes. The next track "Al Cielo Con Crayone" at 4 minutes is pretty catchy starting off mellow with acoustic guitar, reserved vocals and organ. Vocals get stronger and the sound turns snappy. The opener "Viejo Mundo" at over 7 minutes features quite a bit of flute along with acoustic guitar and organ. Mellow stuff but a dancing melody kicks in flute led around 5 1/2 minutes with an ethnic vibe.

"Parte VII" is over 8 1/2 minutes and is different as we get some Ozzy-like vocals here and electric guitar along with drums and organ. There's a darker vibe to this one. Pretty much flute only over the final 2 1/2 minutes or so. "Monte Erebus" is almost 22 minutes long and we get contrasts and repeated themes throughout. It's uptempo and flute led from the hop and some depth here. The first impressive section for me comes after 6 minutes where it turns powerful. It's KING CRIMSON-like around 10 minutes in and heavy a minute later. The closer at well over 29 minutes has it's moments and not so great moments, an inconsistent closer in my opinion. A lot of highs and lows over this period of almost half an hour!

This is a pretty good album and it would be interesting to hear their latest. A 3 star record.