ANCESTORS' TALE

I have a great sympathy for albums that can be taken as pairs (SFTW and Heavy Horses, for example). Those you have to listen to both to fully understand both at one time. "Radical Symmetry" sure is paired with with "Ancestors Tale".

While the former has a breathtaking eclecticism (which still leaves me wondering about the choice of the title and the reason to be a radical symmetry on the album), "Ancestor's Tale" is presented as a much more groovy and jazzy album, relaxing really (I can say that I noticed even some flavors of bossa nova). There is a little less of eclecticism in the instruments - but when we talk about UT Gret, this statement is somewhat misleading - and the band's sound in a much more concise pace than previously. The songs flow almost without one realizing the passage from one track to another, even if many moments remain engraved in our mind, for the quality of the track. And here the ultimate example is certainly "Selvez Unmaden" (Always loved existencialist songs) and the absolutley great "The raw, the cooked and the oveseay". The voice of Cheyenne Mize and flutes, always married to a clarinet, saxophone or basoon fill me your ears and satisfies with the melodies. If "An elephant in Berlin" reminds us Henry Cow, "Dinosaaur on the floor" is all King Crimson - with the instruments creatively simulating what would be the dinosaur moving around (I guess).

More surprises and more pleasentness. Damn it, I guess I AM a fan of UT GreAt.

Going to give the full 5 stars, full confident that the full art-work matches the concept and the tonality of this great work.