One of the pioneers of the Spanish Progressive, in the vein of the
psychedelic-prog ambience. A band with a high instability in its line-up
that didn't let it to become an important one. They ceased playing in the
early 80's. J.J. Iglesias (Revista Atropos)
The first incarnation of Agua de Regaliz released a first single with the
historic Els 4 Vents. Then, they decided to sign a better contract
with Dimension label and change the name to "Pan" and eventually to "Pan & Regaliz" for the people to identify them with
the first band. They had contract problems with the label but that was
not a problem to record and release their only long play "Pan y Regaliz,
featuring now Pedro Van Eeckout on drums. They recorded eight
songs in english in a progressive psychedelic style, very unusual in
Spain. Songs like "Dead of love", "Thinking in Mary" and "A song for a
friend" were made thinking of a single in the purest psychedelic pop
style with Jethro Tull touches. But songs like "One more day", "When
you are so bring down", "I can Fly" and the experimental ones like
"Waiting in the Munster's Garden" and "Today it is raining" make this
record highly recommendable. e special touch of Guillen Paris on flute
and the way that he modulates his voice, in addition to the excelent
contributions of the other muscians, make this record one of the best
in that time, and it has nothing to miss from any Krautrock or English
prog band. Manuel Dachada
This band had the sound of the flute como sello distintivo and walked
through fields close to psychedelic, but very close to progressive. They were not much complex but had a lot of personality, achieving very
intense moments, alway with the flute of Guillem Paris as a main feature.
The 9 minutes of 'Today is rainig' are his pysch particular promenade.
There are also weird tracks like 'A song for the friends', sung in a
oldie-movie-style, something like what Mercury did in the early albums of
Queen, but before he started recording anything.(Alberto Albás)>/i>
Review of the Record "Agua de Regaliz" (in spanish)
In addition to their official discography a compilation in a double CD of
their records for Discos Dimensión, together with those of
Cerebrum and
Evolution has been released.
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