LOS ELEMENTALES

This album has been one of my biggest surprises while searching for new music here on Progarchives. Arco Iris is an argentinian band who displays a good mixture of jazz, psychedelic and symphonic rock with andean influences. On their first two abums you can hear a simpler, less sophisticated music but with growing traces of briliance. It is with their third and sixth albums, 'Sudamerica' and 'Agitor Lucens V' where these guys finally reach the level of the best progressive music, showing this impresive amalgam of styles in full form.

And then is this album. A fusion beast that needs to be pùt among the best albums of history. The musicianship is impressive, original, catchy and eclectic. Imagine the pastoral passages of Premiata Forneria Marconi, and the Canterbury fusion of Bill Bruford, add some Pink Floyd emotional guitar work and sound experimentation and you will have Arco Iris.

Extremely recomended.