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toroddfuglesteg

The second and final album from this Australian band.

The first album was pretty much a rock and pop affair with some excellent hammond organs. Pirana changed direction on their second album and went Santana. Well, make that in the vein of a blend of Santana the band efforts and the Carlos Santana solo albums. There is also some pretty good guitar based fusion on this album. Pirana changed hammond organ player inbetween their two albums. The new one, Keith Grieg, is more reined in than the hammond organ player on the first album. The guitars is more in the forefront on this album.

The problem is the lack of any good songs here. The only good thing about this album is the fusion stuff. But this album totally lack any identity. Well, almost lack any identity. The final song here, Move to the Country, is as horrible as a mix of rock and fusion can get. I will remember that song for a while, yes. And for the wrong reasons. The rest is acceptable, but dull. I understand why this band, despite given all the chances, never got a commercial breakthrough. I guess a life in obscurity for their albums beckons despite of recent re-releases on CD.

2 stars

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sl75

Pirana ultimately were remembered as no more than Santana copyists. Appearing in the film of Sunbury 1972 (over-hyped as Australia's answer to Woodstock) performing a note-for-note cover of Santana's Woodstock showstopper "Soul Sacrifice" didn't help, and neither did this second album. They eschew the cheesy pop influences that were present on parts of their first album, but also most of their songwriting ability, and pretty much any musical influence other than Santana. "Here It Comes Again" is the only really memorable song here, with a great Latin groove, memorable hooks, and some great soloing from both organ and guitar. Elsewhere they rely a lot on groove and soloing to cover up for their lack of songwriting effort, and in the few places where they bothered to write vocal parts, you almost wish they hadn't (eg "Thinking Of You").

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