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SOMM 113LP
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One of the crown jewels of the European jazz-rock-prog-fusion scene. This band from Barcelona, comprised of top notch musicians connected to Crac, Màquina! and Barcelona Traction, mixed Canterbury/RIO influences with classical Spanish music. This is their first album from 1976. Música Urbana was a short-lived Spanish jazz rock band formed in Barcelona in the mid-'70s by composer and multi-instrumentalist Joan Albert Amargós. Their aim was to forge a distinctly Catalan progressive-rock identity -- rooted in Mediterranean and Andalusian traditions rather than Anglophone influences. The band assembled top-tier musicians (Lucky Guri, Carles Benavent, Salvador Font, Luigi Cabanach) piece by piece, ultimately becoming a sort of local supergroup. Their sound blended jazz rock, traditional Spanish and classical music, and even cinematic scores, forming a unique, sophisticated fusion style. The original album cover referenced Spanish classical composers -- signaling the band's deep embrace of Iberian musical heritage in a prog-fusion framework. Remastered sound in 24-bit domain. Multilingual insert with liner notes by journalist Àlex Gómez-Font and rare photos.
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