(prog-fusion) Bella Band - Bella Band - 1978, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Four long instrumental tracks in typical jazz-rock style, with nice horn
arrangements and good guitar, keyboards and sax solo parts.

The album opens with Faidadiesis which is a quite up-tempo and funky song with
awesome soprano sax, clarinet, keyboards and guitar playing.
Regarding musicianship it's absolutely on par with bands like Mahavishnu
Orchestra or National Health although they don't sound like any of them.
Promenade is more quiet and the longest one of the four tracks. It starts with
very soft and smooth keyboards and brass and one could almost think this one is
a bit boring, but wait a moment until it's develops into a magnificent and
interesting song. After about three minutes there is a section with awesome
guitar and bass combined with brass and in its further course the song is filled
with tempo and mood shifts before it finally returns to the initial theme.
Really a fantastic and versatile track.
Porotopostrippa Sul Pero sounds completely different from the previous two and I've
got the impression that here they are showing their full talent. It's a rather
weird one but still very accessible and pleasant to listen to,starting with
fantastic, spacy keys, then guitar and brass at their very best, an awesome sax
solo and a great, almost Hendrix-like guitar solo.This one is the absolute
highlight of the album.
Last track, Cipresso Violento is actually not weaker than the previous ones.
Starting rather quietly like smooth jazz, it soon develops into a very vivid
fusion number...

awesome prog-fusion on their one and only album.
Excellent musicianship with lots of brass and fantastic guitar playing.
All tracks on this unfortunately rather short album, are just brilliant.

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4011247917 114189756 02 - Promenade.wav
1922951378 94256572 03 - Porotopostrippa sul pero.wav
3711742363 56683364 04 - Cipresso violento.wav

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 76%

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 85%

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