Album Rating: 4.5

Oh, I do get the lyrics, spanish and portuguese are pretty similar after all, and I definitely see that they were written with the heart

Album Rating: 5.0

I'm very glad Sir Lord. You're right both languages are pretty similar, indeed. However, I've noticed that some Spanish speakers have some difficulties with the Portuguese language. Fortunately, it seems that it isn't your case.

Album Rating: 4.5

Sorry 21, but I completely forgot that I had not yet said something about the album. The album is really amazing and your explanation was really helpful. It's a pity he isn't better known. Excellent review. Have a great pos.

Album Rating: 5.0

Thanks man, I really appreciate your comment. It's really a pity, but the things are what they are. I hope that my review has achieved to do some light on it.

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm really near from giving it a 4.5

I need to give more spins to the 2nd half.

Album Rating: 5.0

Nice, Jethro. Do that.

About the second part I really think it's as good as the first one. Anyway, I know that I dislike to separate tracks on conceptual albums, especially in this case, because is very similar to "Thick As A Brick" in terms of musical structure. What I really want to say is that the album is interrupted in the middle because the tecnical vinyl conditions, as happened with Jethro Tull's album. More I listend to the album more I like it. Of course, unfortunatelly it lacks to you the capacity to understand the Portuguese poetry on the album. But, nevertheless, I think it's musically as good to be almost completelly full appreciated.

Cheers, mate.

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm probably missing something because I don't understand Portuguese, but for instance, I dig a lot of Italian bands, and I can live without knowing Italian language.

By the way, I think that Portuguese sounds similar to Italian, so it's all good.

So yes, finally, the second part is mostly as enjoyable as the first part. It's mellower for most of it, but the atmosphere gets more intense once again, while it returns to some initial emotional themes to a great effect. I really love that mellotron throughout the album. It gets a 4.5 from me.

Album Rating: 5.0

Great Jethro. I'm very glad you change your rating to 4.5. I really think it deserves the same rating of the solo album of Cid. As you know, perhaps I prefer this album to his solo album. Probably Cid's album is more elaborated and better produced but I always had a very special feeling by the album from Quarteto. I really don't now why, but maybe be because the use of mellotron on the album. I think the album of Quarteto is more mellotron driven than the album of Cid. Anyway, in terms of quality I really think that both are at the same level.

About the Portuguese language sounds similar to Italian, you are right. I think Italian is a more beautiful language and better to be sung, but there are really very similarities between both.

Cheers, mate.

Album Rating: 4.5

Portuguese sounds great to my ears. There are even an Italian flavour into this music.

I think I come to prefer this album over Cid's solo album. Cid's album is more easy to swallow because there are well crafted individual songs, while Quarteto is one long song to digest, but once it's done, Quarteto is enjoyable from start to finish.

I don't know if you know Locanda Delle Fate (1977 album). If not, try them. They don't really use mellotron, but melody-wise, they're quite similar, even if they have their own style.

Album Rating: 5.0

It seems that finally we are in a perfect tune about this album. I'm really glad because I love the album and it's really hard to me that a masterpiece like this is be so less known even in these days.

About Locanda Delle Fate, I really know the album perfectly well. I have a CD copy of it since several years. I also own two CD copies of their albums "Homo Homoni Lupus" and "Live".

The album is a truly masterpiece or very close to be it. It isn't a mellotron driven album but it's a bless for all that we love all the prog rock music, especilly whom likes keybords as I do. And, yeah I can see many simmilitudes between both albums, anyway with their own styles. This album is a real Italian prog gem of the 70's between so many other albums of that country.

Anyway, thanks for you be responsible to return to my mind again this excellent Italian album. I really don't listened to this album since several years, five or six years for sure. But, today, I listen to it a couple of times.

Then, it came to my mind that I could review it one of these days, thinking that there was any review of it. Suddenly I was astonished when I saw that you had already made it, in your ProgJet. By the way, great review as usual in all reviews made by you and already read by me.

Cheers, mate.



P.S. By the way, tomorrow I will put another work of Cid, their prog Ep "Vida (Sons Do Quotidiano)", to conclude is prog biography, here on Sputnik.

Album Rating: 4.5

Yes I covered couple of Italian albums with ProgJect; PFM, Banco, Locanda Delle Fate, Museo Rosenbach, Maxophone and Le Orme.

Locanda Delle Fate has another point in common with Quarteto 1111. Both are short-lived bands. Would it be because the albums were not well received by the press, by the public and by their record company? It was pretty much the case for Locanda Delle Fate. And was it the same for Quarteto 1111? But what an album Locanda is! I especially like the first 3 songs and the last one. The bonus track ''New York'' is also great.

Glad you liked my Locanda's review!

Cheers, buddy!

Album Rating: 5.0

I hadn't noticed that you had reviewed so many Italian prog rock albums on ProgJect. All those albums are great and I'm very happy that you did that.

About Locanda's album I really think that it's entirely fantastic. I really never thought about the similarity of both musical careers. But now I can see many similarities in both, their short career and the similarities in their music too. This is really awesome, Jethro.

Thanks, buddy.

Album Rating: 4.5

It's cool to see that we share the same feelings about these formations.

Also I can tell you that I'll return regularly to Jose Cid stuff. By the way, have you noticed, there are a complete live show (2014) of Jose Cid on youtube. I'll take the time to look at it in full as soon as possible.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, I know that. In the most recent years it's very frequent to see Cid returning to his prog times, in several places, performing live his solo album and this EP. The concert you mentioned was released and recorded in Aula Magna in Lisbon. Aula Magna is the auditorium in the campus of one of the Lisbon Universities, one of the first universities founded in Lisbon, indeed.

This is one of the reasons, the frequent perfomances of these works, why I mentioned in my review of his solo album: "this is particularly the album he’s most proud, giving the impression that he’d rather have had a career in the progressive rock.".

Another reason is, when Cid saw the first review made here on Sputnik by kual21, another Portuguese member, he wrote in his facebook: "Wow! This American music site this month gives the maximum to my 10,000 years alongside the best bands and albums in the world. I'm with a fucking ego."

So, as you can see he really never forgot his past prog path.

I'm very glad that you became a fan of the prog music of Cid too.

Cheers, man.

Album Rating: 3.5

This is a really good album, I wish I could understand the lyrics

Album Rating: 5.0

Believe me, the lyrics are great as well.

Thanks for the comment.

Album Rating: 4.5

so is it just me and my copy or the division between part 1 and 2 feels kinda odd?



Like, I feel part 2 (and the fading that divides them) starts like a minute and a half earlier

Album Rating: 5.0

I don't know, SirLord. I only have my version of my old vinyl copy.

Album Rating: 4.5

I just think it is weird, I feel like pt.1 gets cut off out of the blue which certainly has to sound weird on a vinyl since you have to turn it to the other side



I think Part 2 should start around a 1:02 later (at least on my version)

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, probably. This is the usual problems with albums with only one theme which were released on vinyl format. It's probably difficult to glue perfectly both parts, I think. However, I don'y know if it's only a matter of your re-release version on CD format.