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OFFICIAL VINYL REISSUE OF TEMPANO- ATABAL YEMAL

Series PROG VENEZUELA

Bandcamp

https://pqr-disquesplusquerel.bandcamp.com/album/atabal-yemal

Band name: Tempano

Album title:  Atabal Yemal

Format: Vinyl LP (180 gr., with Bonus CD + 12-page booklet)

Other specifications: Strictly limited pressing of 300 numbered copies

Cat. no: PQR-023

An all-time classic from the vast fields of eclectic prog that most probably will never grow old for as long as there are demanding listeners. Atabal Yemal, recorded in 1979, is a gigantic clockwork formation of perfectly synchronized small parts that melt into surreal supple space.  At times, symphonically weeping woodwinds in dialogue with zeuhl at its darkest, as the surface antithesis is resolved by a strange attractor that swallows them and then leaves a trombone pondering all alone ‘what has just happened?’.  At times, ferocious guitar attacks a la John Zorn, receding into a placid swan lake. This might as well be the soundtrack to a fantasy theatrical play, as it is so oneirically evocative as a multilayered impossible building with metonymic floors that refer incessantly up, down and sideways. The album has been remastered from the original tapes and includes a bonus cd with previously unreleased tracks from the Atabal Yemal 1979 recording sessions, plus live tracks and a 12-page booklet packed with original bios, photos and paraphernalia from Tempano’s 45 years in Progland.  Furthermore, this edition features for the first time the very original cover that was intended for the initial Atabal Yemal release.







TEMPANO with ATABAL YEMAL vinyl

For more info visit:

Prog archives exclusive interview

https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=130300&PID=6058052&#6058052

 

PQR-Disques plusqueréel website

 

https://pqrrecords.blogspot.com/2023/01/official-vinyl-reissue-of-tempano.html

 

Official Discogs page

https://www.discogs.com/release/25653118-T%C3%A9mpano-%C3%85tabal-Y%C3%A9mal

 

Youtube

https://youtu.be/-Hn5f5YYCN0

 

https://youtu.be/o6fzPqw6-C0

 

Bandcamp

https://pqr-disquesplusquerel.bandcamp.com/album/atabal-yemal


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