Nice mix of dramatic progressive rock and singer songwriter based material. I don't have a lot of progressive rock from Uruguay, so this one makes the cut. And the good material is exceptional.
I found an old review I wrote for UTR (see Mongol entry): "Many parallels with the Jose Cid - 10000 Anos... album from Portugal: Both are from 1978, feature well known artists in their country, and come from countries without a tradition of prog rock. But, really, the Tirelli is more dated sounding. Could've been from 1970 and I would have believed it. Big production opera with narration, horns, local pop music, and of course, progressive rock. Sounds like a cross between Latte E Miele's masterpiece Passio Secundum Mattheum and Jesus Christ Superstar! But I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff. Maybe you are too. If so, this is on the high end of that scale. Besides, what else do you have from Uruguay?" 23 years on from that last listen/review, and it's too far off from what I think now!
8/29/97 (rmp-utr#2)
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