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Marty McFly
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So, around 40 minutes of not so well known band from Czech Republic, which surprisingly
possess few quite fine musicians (I want to mention especially Jiří Jelínek, from here
overlooked (so far) band ETC). In spite of having touch by funk, maybe even little bit of soul
(after all, their main influence should be "Blood Sweat & Tears", which is unknown to me,
but could be in similar style, jazz-funk fusion) with much more prog feeling than first album.
After all, I know what this reminds me. A lot. Another Czech band from this era, Progres 2
and their album "Dialog s vesmírem", which was released two years later. Maybe this even
influenced it. And also reminds of Hungarian band Solaris, with combination of flute and
synths, so their "Marsbely" album. But this record can bring more. The reason why i want to
give five stars, even star on verge of 4-5 is that it's probably the finest thing that was
produced here. Yes, there were other jazz bands, but Mahagon went on another way, doing
things differently. Yes, there are first 13 minutes, which are just above average, but rating
this with 4 would be unfair. There are so many ideas and. For example, in work of Fermáta,
even I like them, sounds sometimes quite the same. Like they're keeping themselves on
beaten path. Ironically, this album is more adventurous and exploring, than Fermáta's
concept album about adventurers.
4(-), worse rating is because of funk elements. Really very interesting album.
Marty McFly |4/5 |
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