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This Argentine formation (Virus Master if you read
their name from right to left) is rooted in 2002. Soon Retsam
Siruv participated in several progressive festivals in the
era of the capital Buenos Aires but not until 2007 the band
started to work on their debut album that was finally released
in 2009 entitled Exesegys with a worldwide distribution
by known progrock labels, from French Musea and Japanese
Poseidon to Brasilian Rock Symphony and Mexican Luna Negra.
At this moment Retsam Siruv is presenting their debut album
in different countries all over the world and preparing
material for their second effort. -
The beating heart of Retsam Siruv is female singer Vilma
Del Giorgio (she has a wide range and puts a lot of emotion
into the music) and keyboard player Christian Del Giorgio
(his spectacular sound reminds me of fellow Latin-Americans
Jaime Rosas Cuartetto and Entrance from Chile), on this
debut CD they are supported by 3 different musicians on
guitar, bass and drums in the first four songs and the other
five songs, 5 tracks are instrumental. In general Retsam
Suriv delivers dynamic symphonic rock with heavy/metallish
guitar work and bombastic keyboards, often supported by
a thunderous rhythm-section like in the long tracks Lombardia
(exciting accellarations and flashy synthesizer runs) and
Osmosis, the climate is pretty close to ‘over the top’ progrock
but how thrilling if you like that kind of music! At some
moments the music turns into mellow and dreamy with sensitive,
Gilmourian inspired guitar (like in Lombardia), tender Grand
piano and soaring keyboards. As a huge fan of Seventies
Queen I am very pleased with Retsam Surive their tribute
to Freddy Mercury entitled Lluvia De Estrallas, a beautiful
song with a strong build-up and a fiery guitar solo. -
I am very curious to the future of Retsam Suriv, their
start is very promising and recommended to fans who love
harder-edged symphonic rock and elaborate prog-metal. Let’s
hope Retsam Suriv will not turn into another fine new Latin-American
one-shot-band like Angulart, Seti, Pig Farm On The Moon,
Sleepwalker Sun or Spin XXI.
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