Eduardo Bort in 1974 and 1983's Silvia [with flac of the first one]

 

These are the decades in a nutshell: the 70s passed into the 80s from the floating-in-space hippie longhair on the top cover to the smooth guy watching a girl in lingerie on the bottom.

Info discogged here. Their synopsis is (surprisingly) for once quite spot-on:

Spanish rock guitarist and singer (1948 -2020). His 1975 debut solo is widely acclaimed as one of the classics of Spanish progressive rock. It featured a unique strong song style with majestic group arrangements, with dual keyboards including Mellotron and synthesizers.

After disappearing off the scene for 8 years Eduardo came back with a more mellow second album of which one track is dedicated to Carlos Santana. Further recordings exist and he was still active as a musician in 2013. Died 26 February of 2020 after a long battle against cancer, he was 72 years old.

From the first one which was quite the little masterpiece as mentioned before-- I would qualify the above though by mentioning it's more the acoustic style of prog, with some simple songs, and not so much in the complex, symphonic style-- I think the most successful multiple-listens composition is Walking on the Grass which I can enjoy repeatedly to this day:

The second one of course as you can tell from the cover reverted to smooth, commercial, and accessible fusion. I think it would've been shocking had he continued in the same hippie-prog acoustic vein, given the zeitgeist of the eighties. Nonetheless, there's a lot to like in here. It's not quite the same consistent level of quality as what happened with Argentinian Carlos Franzetti where the 1980 album Galaxy Dust just knocked it out of the ballpark despite the late year, but it's worth hearing as long as you try not to compare it to his earlier mid-70s masterpiece.

De vuelta a la esperanza is for me the best track on this one: