The debut album from this band from Spain.
The band was a seven piece big band with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, violin, keyboards, woodwinds and vocals.
This band has so far released four albums and they are all up for reviews this summer on this blog.
Robe is the brainchild of the vocalist and guitarist Roberto Iniesta. He was previously a member of the Spanish band Extremoduro.
Robe has got a large following in Spain and has done some shows they have released as a double CD live album too. I do not review live albums but that album should be checked out.
Back to their debut album...
The music on this forty-five minutes long album are a blend of symphonic prog and folk rock. It reminds me about the first Spanish symphonic prog albums from the 1970s. It is a mostly symphonic prog album.
There is a lot of violins here and some saxophones. This in addition to the other instruments.
The music is a mix of mid-tempo and some more pastoral music. The vocals, Roberto's vocals, are in Spanish. These are good vocals too and is adding a lot of good flavours to this album.
The result is an album bordering between good and very good.
This debut is probably the start of something really good, something really big, a new big band in the scene.
3 points
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