symphinity

After the success of “Four Moments” in 1975, Australian band SEBASTIAN HARDIE issued “Windchase” the following year. After the band split-up, its leader, guitar player, and singer Mario MILLO recorded “Symphinity” (1977), adopting for his new line-up the name of this last album. Far from being a copy, this magnificent album is slightly different from the quartet’s releases, due to the fact that they added to their typically lyrical and romantic music, a certain GENESIS-like influence that is most welcome. There is also the integration, as natural as it may seem, of a guitar and of percussions that sound as if they had directly come from a album by SANTANA. The musicians even go further by getting close to a relatively dark (!) jazz-rock fusion on the track “Lamb’s Fry”. However technique and a little show-off as well as sounding as an heir to COLOSSEUM II, this composition that lasts about ten minutes manages to remain accessible and in the same category as the previous albums.