ÅTABAL-YÉMAL

After just my first contact with TEMPANO,I can honestly say that they belong to the major league's art rock bands.They were formed in 1977,suffered from several line-up problems and ended up as a quartet,who recorded and released ''Atabal Yemal'' in 1979.This work is an absolute heaven for classic progressive rock fans,as it contains six elaborated,extremely well-played and complicated compositions,which start from symphonic sessions filled with beautiful keyboard sounds and end in jazz/fusion complex parts with fantastic interplays.Imagine a blend of early STEVE HACKETT works blended with smooth RETURN TO FOREVER-like jazz rock.The 1998 release presented here contains also three bonus tracks,where the band push their skills even more with a more complicated and challenging sound of their late-90's era.An absolutely essential release!