The first album is excellent progressive rock highlighted by Bort's
monster chops on the guitar. The only weak point are the vocals in
broken English. It is definitely worth having. I was made aware of the
existence of a second release (title unknown) by Lost Vinyl's
president. He described this second effort as in a Latin-rock vein a la
Santana, and not at all progressive as the first one. You have been
warned. Juan Joy
Eduardo Bort is a Spanish guitarist whose musical influences appear
to be from the psychedelic bands of the late 1960's. As I am not "up"
on many of the psych bands of that era, it is hard for me to make
comparisons; however, the over all sound is more in the direction of
psych/prog than straight psych. There are definite progressive
overtones with some synth and mellotron work scattered throughout
the album. But the focal instrument is Bort's electric and acoustic
guitar. Bort makes a fine psych guitarist, which is to say that he plays
the psychedelic guitar style very well, though he is nothing exceptional
overall. If you like fuzz guitar, you'll like this. He sings in English, but
with a strong Spanish accent, making it rather hard to understand
what he's saying. Overall, I found this to be an enjoyable album. It's not
a disc I play often but it definitely has its moments and is worth
keeping in my collection. Mike Taylor
Eduardo Bort's self-titled album from 1975 contains four long tracks of
spacey, melodic progressive rock with several longer acoustic/folky
passages as well. The first track "Thoughts" reminds me a bit of the 70's
Italian bands (especially the better parts on the Uno album). "Pictures of
Sadness" has some great mellotron and excellent spacey guitar playing.
Bort' s guitar playing reminds me both of Jimi Hendrix and Steve Hillage.
By far the weakest point are the vocals. The flat, heavily accented
singing is rather poor, but it doesn't spoil the album for me. The last,
12-minute track "Yann" starts with incredible mellotron/guitar/mini-moog
interplay. This section could have been culled from Steve Hillage's
masterpiece Fish rising. Superb. After about four minutes, part two of
the track starts in a more acoustic setting, unfortunately with the worst
of the vocal contributions. About two minutes later an instrumental
section follows with nice guitar strumming and soloing by Bort. At
about nine minutes, the mellotron re-enters with a romantic symphonic
theme (and variations) until the track ends. Not a flawless album, but
despite the weak vocals an enjoyable piece of work with occasionally
some outstanding passages. (Sjef Oellers, as reviewed in Gnosis)
"Eduardo Bort" was re-released by Fonomusic in 1989.
Review of the record "Eduardo Bort" (in spanish)
Review of the record "Silvia" (in spanish)
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