Spanish outfit Outeiro - Ollos de Marzal, 1980, by request

 

From discogs, where a very long bio describes them rather intricately, beginning thusly:

Outeiro was a band that fused progressive rock and jazz. Their origins date back to 1979 in Vigo (Pontevedra). They started out as a guitar, bass and drum trio made up of Pepe Bordallo from Los Zuecos (bass, acoustic guitar), Fernando Llorca (drums, percussion and trumpet) and Rubén Péz (electric and acoustic guitar).

Shortly afterwards they were joined by Lorenzo Cuasante (keyboards), who comments in La Enciclopedia del Rock Sinfónico y Progresivo Español that “they gave me a tape that they had recorded as a trio with several songs. They sounded like a hard rock group but those recordings had a very original and exotic touch (even too romantic) to put labels on them. On the other hand, they lacked harmony and the meter they followed was quite arbitrary (imagine a 3/4 beat followed by a 4/4 and then a 3/8!) devilishly complicated and tangled for any rock musician to square off with.” At first Lorenzo thought that all of these were inconsistencies that needed to be fixed, but listening to the tape carefully he realised that these were not inconsistencies, that it was all premeditated and that it was precisely there where their originality lay. The music flowed with total naturalness in Outeiro.

and etc. etc.

The music is very much like their predecessor on this blog Caldera crossed with Sacbe, but perhaps slightly less creative and definitely with less of the tropical warmth of those 2. Quality is moderate, not outstanding like the earliest Sacbe and Toussaint.

Title track goes like this:

I should mention this is Bibiano-related (e.g., bassist / vocalist Florencio Gonzalez was also in Bibiano, once posted here on this blog).  Surprisingly the style that shows up here is quite different, not folky.

US Caldera in 4, by request

Discogged here albeit with minimal info.

I would say they are typical progressive Latin fusion from the late 70s, not as fiercely creative as the Mexican Sacbe band I loved so dearly back here, or Pe Ante Pe more recently here. In keeping with their popularity at the time they are rather smooth in fact with minimal craziness but extremely professional playing.

From the first album (ST, 1976), Synesthesia:

From the second (Sky Island, 1977), Seraphim / Angel:

From the third (Time and Chance, 1978), Mosaico clearly uses the same old Latin music cliches but does delve into more complex areas of composition here and there: