Saturday, 22 January 2022

Topos Uranos' Suite Mistica from 1992








Discogs info here.  Just a magnificent opus we have here, surprising from such a late year.

It's sad that these folks only made the one remarkable album which clearly is wholly influenced by the traditional keyboard prog style of the late seventies with symphonic touches everywhere, like the German Ocean two I posted long ago on these pages or the well known SFF of Symphonic Pictures fame, or the great Trilogy.  Instrumental, dissonant keyboard passages, multiple instruments to add colour and occasional chamber sounds with quite interesting chords and those arpeggiated riffs.

Duende combines a kind of proto-video game soundtrack with the classic 70s style of dissonant keyboard symphonic:



Sad we don't have a better resolution cover scan to provide too.


8 comments:

  1. https://www77.zippyshare.com/v/BaWJeeVS/file.html

    https://www.sendspace.com/file/bj76wk

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  2. Hi Dear Julian,

    Very nice post!
    Indeed, Topos Uranos was an amazing and creative band.
    I see influences from MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) too.
    This band raised in Niterói city (near Rio de Janeiro city).
    I think that this another band from Belo Horizonte city has the same quality as Topos Uranos: https://soundcloud.com/dogma-progressive-rock/sets/twin-sunrise


    Yours sincerely,

    Flávio

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  3. both dogma albums are good:
    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/dsr5n7

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  4. Sure!
    They are nice.
    The song "Clouds" from the first album has the violinist Marcus Viana (Sagrado Coração da Terra & Solo Career).

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  5. Do you know Blézqi Zatsaz, Julian?

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    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJFTUed4FYY

      from Record Runner Brasil; Fabio Ribeiro works are worth checking.

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  7. Sorry, Progressive Rock Records (Brasil)

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