Covid-19 Invitational Tourn.- Instrumentals #1

Bubu “Por La Manana”  Starts beautifully and kept my interest.  Nice kind of jazzy feel and I like the punchy guitars when they come in over the smooth underpinnings.  Then there is a bit of a shift at 2:30-ish.  I like this one a lot.  Could it be a hit?  Maybe with me, not sure about it’s potential to be the next “Tequila!”

Adam Holzman “Good Luck With Your Music”  Plunky, staccato-y sounds to start, goes to a smooth jazz kind of sax sounds that also get staccato-y.  3:40 Traffic-y piano part there, that was my favourite section in this one.

Far Corner “Fork”  I love the picture!  I have heard this band about on the prog shows, never did hear this piece, though.  Enjoy the heaviness and the violin.  This is more the style I like, than say, Holzman or The Fierce and the Dead, but not sure if it would be a prog hit. 

Gryphon “Dumbe Dum Chit”  Actually I think this would have the most likelihood to be a prog hit….but I know the band and the piece.  It does stand out the most out of the group for a “Hey, listen to that!” right at the beginning.  Can I break my rule of knowing a piece makes it ineligible for my vote? 

Which could become a hit?  In the old world of hit radio, you had to grab a listener within something like the first seven seconds, if I remember correctly (also, the A&R guy if you were an unsigned act).  Really quickly, in other words.  So even long songs had to kind of hit you over the head pretty fast, which doesn’t mean it had to do so violently.  Even prog hits tend to have a hook. 

I cannot break my own rule, so am going to go for Bubu.