Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Ultranova - O Eremita (2025)

 

The second album from this band from Brazil.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, piano and synths.

The band returned again after an eight years long album break. I reviewed their 2017 debut album Orion for # 2 of this blog back in January 2018. It was a decent enough instrumental album.

The follow up album, the one hour long O Eremita, is in the same vein as Orion.

The music is a blend of fusion and symphonic prog. There are also some pretty strong Brazilian folk rock and cinematic rock influences in their music.

The music is dynamic with a lot of piano and electric guitars. The music has a Latin-American flavour throughout.

The music is pretty light and bright too. It is pretty symphonic too and in the Latin-American prog rock tradition.

The music is pretty good throughout without really being a great album.

If you like instrumental prog with a Latin-American flavour, this is an album for you.

2.5 points

 

 

 

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