TIERRA DE ESPECIAS

Amarok

Prog Folk

3.53 | 15 ratings

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ZowieZiggy
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I don't feel anything special when I listen to this album. Their first two albums were good but after those, I felt like a downhill in the quality of their works.

In this case, vocals are pretty unbearable while present. Therefore, I prefer the instrumental tracks that are featured on this "Tierra De Especies" like the melodic "Caramillo Del Alba". To highlight the poor vocal parts, the next "Naki Naki" is a superb example of this "feature". Fortunately, the music is excellent, complex and quite entertaining.

Overall, the fluting parts are excellent, percussions are quite pleasant but Marta Segura "performance" on the vocals is quite disputable. The Eastern influence is also dominant at times: with such titles as "El Gran Bazar" and "Danza De Samotracia" (no wonder).

The epic "Azabel Cuentacuentos" displays some "Supper's Ready" feeling (acoustic guitar, flute) which is quite nice to listen to. Hopefully, this excellent number is almost an all instrumental one and also includes some very delicate violin sections. The closing part is not really impressive but as a whole, this is by far the best number of this album which I rate with three stars.

ZowieZiggy | 3/5 | 2010-10-29

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