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T. Smith | Columbia, MO | 12/30/2004

(2 out of 5 stars)

"If you're looking for more stuff like Sparticus or Illusions, this isn't it. Admittedly a debut effort, this album simply is not in the class of the later efforts.



If you must, buy it used. You'll thank me."

The Most promising Recording & lineup for this Band?...

Jeff T. Jesmorh | Mexico City. | 06/09/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Yes! This first Triumvirat's album maybe is their most promising and oustanding recording... By the intrincated compositional use of prog textures (diverse rhythms, overtures, thematical riffs, fugues and some others) over simple rock bases; make this, a well crafted suite of 16:34 minutes, where anyone can hear the kind of "Uriah Heep/ Emerson Lake & Palmer" influence esque(I don't believe the sweet story of "the Nice" influence at all).



The sonic aprouche of this recording is more aproximated to the end of sixties than early seventies; something primitive & raw but really keeps the interest: This makes worthwhile the money paid for it. The musicians are impresively high talented, with great idea of how to play their instruments, than the following lineups. The vocal parts are technically poor but recordings like SPARTACUS showed the improvements in this part of the band' sound in 1975, when their sound seemed to be lighter and formulated in a more commercial context (But I gave it five stars too for other reasons), the bonus tracks of MEDITERRANEAN TALES shows this tendency...



It's a shame that this lineup didn't last enough time to grow up and develop new ways. The follow up ILLUSIONS IN A DOUBLE DIMPLE proved to be a test (a musical fiasco?), a structural clone (How they dared?) of YES's masterpiece CLOSE TO THE EDGE, Fate only knows what could it be to this days if this lineup had continued recording...Good luck!"

Ugly and beautiful at the same time.

The Niv | 03/13/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I was very happy to find that these CD's had been released! If you like old Rush, Yes, and Emerson Lake and Palmer, three membered Triumvirat was more of the goodness I craved. From the overly gleefull happy intro riff to the barked out lyrics on this CD, its all over the place, but comes back home as well.

It is a first album, so it stands out even more than the rest. If there was a band I wish I could have been born twenty years earlier to see, Triunvirat would be it...and Yes...and Rush...and The Who.

Thanks, Hans, Hans, and Jurgen!"