ICONOCLASTA / REMINISCENCIAS

Iconoclasta

Jazz Rock/Fusion

3.97 | 9 ratings

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First: This is not a studio album but a boxset that contains the first two albums of that mexican band "Iconoclasta" (1983) and "Reminiscencias" (1985).

Second: The cover and inner art of this 2 CD boxset is really amazing.

Third: Iconoclasta's music it's really wonderful. Totally symphonic, with great inffluences of 70's Genesis, ELP, ethnical and classical, with superb performances of each member of the band, specially Ricardo Moreno (guitars, synthesizers), Ricardo Orteg�n (guitar) and Rosa Flora Moreno (piano, synthesizers).

"Iconoclasta" has a lot of great songs: "Cuentos de Arquicia" (Tales from Arquicia) it's a very nice and at the same time complex compostion with a pair of astonishing performances on keyboards; "Estudio VI" is a woderful piece for acoustic guitar; "Fuera de Casa" (Out of Home) it's a singular, melodic and very prog piece full of delicate drops of sadness.

"Reminiscencias" (Memories) is a conceptual album divided in four parts: "La Gestacion de Nuestro Mundo" (The Birth of Our World), "El Hombre sobre la Tierra" (The Human Being on the Earth), "La Era de los Metabolismos Tecnologicos" (The Age of the Technological Metabolisms) and "Reminiscencias de un Mundo sin Futuro" (Memories of a World without Future); at first sight this album could look very pretencious. Wrong! With melodic and prog arrangements, great work on chorus and a constant implulse to epic endings, this album is a fine masterpiece of prog rock.

Both albums were made at the early 80's. That fact gives more value to this albums if you remember what kind of prog music was produced on these years...

4 and a 1/2...

progadicto | 4/5 | 2006-4-10

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