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Phoenix - Cantafabule (1975) (@256) http://i32.tinypic.com/2d8ovtd.jpg
(Review from progarchives.com) The beginnings of Romanian band "Phoenix" date to the 60s. They released a few EPs during this period, featuring several original compositions and some covers of Beatles songs. The band later abandoned the beat influences and instead turned to archaic Romanian music as the source of inspiration. Their third album, Cantofabule or Cant Of A Bule or Cantafabule, is a concept based on some traditional Romanian themes based on adaptation of poets Seban Foarta and Andrei Ujica and inspired on a Dimitri Bolintineanu book called Istoria Ieroglifa (speaking of a “bestiaire” of fantastic mythical creatures), this almost 70 min-long piece is indeed one of the best thing to come from the old Dacian province. If I speak of Dacia (relating it to the Roman Empire times instead of Valachia or Moldavia-Bessarabia), it is because the general feel relates a bit to Italian progressive (this is greatly due to the similarity of both languages), but the Timisoara (in Transylvania where the revolt started) group developed a very ambitious project that mixed some medieval folk with hard rock fronted by a fuzzed-out guitar. The two-parts lengthy opening track Invocatie gives out right away the main dimension of their music, a fairly hard progressive dominated by a fuzz-guitar, where all musicians hold their own. Surprising how modern for the day they sounded apparently having a moog synth. During this track, the group moves to different moods and passages including a “folk” one and there is a harpsichord thrown in there too and the track is a very captivating intro. Moving from the Harpsichord/flute piece Unicorn (sung in Old French) to the mediocre beat-rock of the sacred beetle (Scarabeului), the albums moves quickly to another highlight about dolphins (Delfinul), where the group shows the extent of their considerable talent in this folky ballad. Going through the dragon (semi-hard rocking), the snake (with a violin), a special kind of bird (Calandrinon) that’s supposed to accompany you into the underworld (another highlight with superb bass work), the moose and the mongoose, the siren and a few other mythical creatures, the group continues tirelessly (even if you do, partly due to the length and the repetition of tracks that hammer on the same nail and the Romanian singing) until another pure psych-beat-RnR breaks the cycle of progressive/folk tracks alternating. The album gets back on track with the splendid Cintic-Lu (hawk) track which definitely seals the fate of the concept as excellent (just short of brilliant), followed by another fabulous Zoomahia (starting with the same electronic sounds found on the start of the album, but much longer and sounding like Gong) and the album closing on their fetish Phoenix, rising from the ashes. This album holds very few flaws, few fillers and a bunch of superb if inhabitual progressive folk tracks, which makes this album a masterpiece of its own. Line-up : - Nicolae Covaci / lead guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar, double six, blockflote - Iosif Kappl / bass, vocals, violin, blockflote - Mircea Baniciu / vocals, guitar - Ovidiu Lipan / drums, bongos, tympani, gong, chimes, tambourine - Gunter Reininger / piano, electric piano, synthesizer, celesta, electronic organ Track List : 01. Invocatie - 10:14 02. Norocul Inorogului - 3:19 03. Scara Scarabeului - 2:21 04. Delfinul, Dulce Dulful Nostru - 5:49 05. Uciderea Balaurului - 4:36 06. Stima Casei - 2:23 07. Pasarea Calandrinon - 5:51 08. Filip Si Cerbul - 4:30 09. Vasiliscul Si Aspida - 3:57 10. Sirena - 3:45 11. Pasarea Roc...K and Roll - 5:34 12. Cintic-Lu a Cucuveaua-Lliei - 7:07 13. Zoomahia - 6:04 14. Phoenix - 3:47Download: Rapidshare, Hotfile, Megaupload, Przeklej i Inne http://rapidshare.com/files/112198982/phoenix_cantafabule_1975_1.zip http://rapidshare.com/files/112291453/phoenix_cantafabule_1975_2.zip Password -> sakalli Download bez limitów |