Friday, August 15, 2025

Ujig - Delta (2025)

 

The fourth album from this band from Italy.

The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars and keyboards.

Two guests added woodwinds and female voices.

The band were crossing over to cinematic rock and symphonic prog from their jazz on their last album Ujigami in 2022. So I thought this was were the band was heading. They had also associated themselves with a progressive rock label... MaRaCash Records.

I was mistaken. 

The fifty minutes long Delta sees the band retreating into their jazz landscape. The music is not particular intense. It is at times rather laidback and elegant.

That is not a bad thing though. The sound and music is also been fleshed out by some trumpets and female voices. That adds a lot to this album, indeed.

The music is still pretty melodic with a lot of good themes driven on by piano, trumpet and guitars.  

The result is a likeable good album which will win fans also among fans of progressive rock. 

3 points 

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