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I'm sorry Doc, but apart from voting for the review, I can do very little... I'm out of my territory...

After shockingly discovering Opel's innate ability... I tell GiovanniA that this kind of music requires patience and countless listens... initially, I would have never given a 5 to this Bundles... the fact is that later, after properly assimilating it, I realized I was facing truly extraordinary work... I had the same experience with Softs (as you will see in the upcoming next episode ;))

Opel, your wit amazes and fascinates me! What intuition... what sixth sense! ;)

Who knows if this ominous omen will reappear in the next review, which I’ll say right away will be of an album from '76... (hard to guess, huh?) :p

Wow! What a "soft" recovery we have here... You know what? Maybe it’s because "Mother Nature" sounds a bit clichéd to me, but I find other episodes more touching, such as "My Way to be Hurt" or even "Can Anybody Tell" (at least in the first part and not in the lively instrumental digression at the end). Anyway, great job!

Thanks again to everyone who came! Hetzer, I’m looking forward to your thoughts then (but please don’t talk to me in that formal tone :))

Good, maybe not the best but still a nice album...

Thank you again for the comments! @Jargon: The term fusion was indeed coined around the '80s to indicate the combination that can arise between different genres. For this reason, works that blended jazz sounds with rock in the '70s were then automatically "renamed" fusion (not always justifiably). I believe that fusion is essentially just the label given to a style that combines the jazz formula with the typical instrumentation of rock, where electric instruments like guitar and keyboards are in the foreground. It might not be a "typical" fusion form, since the funk lines had not yet been introduced (as you rightly pointed out)... but in my opinion, the prominence of Allan's guitar makes it fusion indeed, at least in sound if not exactly in style.

Singular proposal... I know the album but I really wouldn’t know what score to give it... for me this work has a bit too many fluctuating rhythms... tracks like "Orgelsolo" or "Grille" seem too minimalist and scattered to me, but at the same time I find "Love Potion 25" and "Side 1 First Day" definitely valid, so I don’t know... I’ll follow your example and go with a 3... even though in my case it feels a bit stretched... but in the end it seems like the most fitting choice.

Thank you everyone! @paloz: Don’t worry! I’m really used to it; in fact, in the last review I did on the Eggs, there were so many comments compared to the standards of my proposals that I was almost taken aback... @Ole: How do you only know Third? Didn’t you say you were preparing? But I really didn’t give you much time... My bad ;)