Excelent second album by this belgian band, Machiavel. Jester is from 1977 and is a big improvement over
the first, maybe because they have now a propper vocalist, Mario Guccio. The music is clearly inspired by
Genesis (Trick or Wind and wuthering era) with very strong key arrangements, specially on synthesizers
and mellotron. For me Jester is a very good album with a lot to offer, very underrated, amond the best
from Belgium and why not from the late'70's. The album has diffrent kind of moods, beggins with a mid
tempo piece Wisdom, with great guitar solo and fantastic keybord combinations, and goes on with a slow
one Moments and then the core of the album wich is the best, the middle pieces - In the reign of queen
pollution, Jester and Mister street fair . The best pieces are ; Wisdom, title track Jester with great vocals
and smooth arragements and Mister street fair , the rest are also very enjoyble. The music of Machiavel is
not very complicated, sometimes is something between Genesis but less symphonic and Supertamp, but
for sure needs attention. So a big album for me, 4 stars without hestitation, among the most enjoyble
albums i have in my collection.
b_olariu |4/5 |
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