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gerem@prodigy

Continuing with the tradition of good Prog from northern Spain, Rivendel affirms with the Meaning the good taste of Spanish prerformers of continuing with the tradition of the classical prog bands that exploded with sound the underground prog scene of the 70's. Very tasteful small peieces of music tightned together to form a unified and unique long piece sung in three different languages. Good deep voice of Ana Loreto, in la Telaraña, the rythmic section is very precise, Toño Cruz's guitar is almost everywhere, but what makes the record delightful is Josemari's bass and wind work. too bad there hasn't been a release lately which Would Confirm Rivendel's quality.For anyone who apreciates Spanish Prog, if you liked Crack or Galadriel you should get this one. Congratulation to Roman who designed the cover: just unfolded the cover and glued it to my wall.

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Posted Thursday, August 11, 2005 | Review Permalink

St_V

This album is really good, a better effort that their first one "Manifesto". The three long songs are divided into many different parts. The three suits are quite different, even each one of them are sung in a different language. First one, "La Telarana" is sung in spanish and it's a very lyrical song, with a lot of 12-string, flutes and oboes (or something alike). It remains classic RPI (italian progressive), because of some mediterranian feel. There is also a soprano-like guest voice. It sound beautiful and original. Vey symphonic. The second suite "The Meaning" that gaves tittle to the álbum seems the centerpiece of the álbum. It's the longest one. Every part is different. Guitar based parts follow keyboard based ones and sometimes in between there's is some nice vocal parts. A great opus. The final piece "L'Art Brut" is te shortest one. It's sung in french (?!) and it's the most bizarre song in this album. It seems it's about crazy artista and it's sounds like is! Also a very interesting piece of music. By far, the best Rivendel album in the 90's. I wonder why did they stopped because there is a feeling like if a third effort could have been even better.

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Posted Thursday, December 17, 2015 | Review Permalink

Mellotron Storm
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3.5 stars RIVENDEL are a four piece band from Spain who formed in 1985 but have released just four studio albums so far. They released two records in the nineties including this second one I'm reviewing now from 1996, and two from the 10's. I'm really on the fence with this one. I originally felt it was a four star album after repeated listens made the electronic drums sound tolerable. Problem with that is when I haven't spun this in a long time the first thing I notice are those drums. I'm not big on the male and female vocals, even though they are fine. The keyboardist sings on the final two tracks while there is a guest female singer on the opener.

Just three long pieces here. A lot to take in really, especially when they broke them down into twenty one tracks at over 51 minutes. All three suites are sung in a different language as in Spanish, English and French. Again I'm on the fence because I do really appreciate the samples, the adventerous compositions and musicianship here. It seems a lot went into this. But in my opinion their most recent release "Sisyfos" from 2018 is the one to get. All instrumental with great sounding drums(lol). And "DHD" from 2015(with the terrible cover art) I would say is a good step above this one as well, and again all instrumental. So yes I favour their two 10's albums.

I do not favour the cover art being afraid of spiders. But living this far north I am spared from anything bigger than a Wolf spider. I do recommend this one, it's a prog lovers delight, but please check out their two later albums.

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Posted Thursday, November 14, 2024 | Review Permalink

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