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Title: Underwater Spaghetti Western in Space Theme Music
Review: Anyone familiar with Basso's work with La Portuaria would not recognize him here. Firstly, the lack of vocals on this album is depressing. I purchased the CD because I love his voice. But the one really decent cut, Lone Star Angel, is predominantly female on the vocals; Basso's backup voice is an afterthought. And that's my second complaint; every song with vocals is in English! The instrumental cuts are all monotonous, gloomy, and again, monotonous. There is a glimmer here and there of a riff that might have been successfully extrapolated into a catchy, kitschy tune, but he misses the spaceship every time. Even the cover of the CD is ridiculous with a Medusa-haired supermodel preparing to resuscitate him with electric paddles on the moon's surface. Profania is a truly bizarre foray into what someone told him would be a good crossover genre. I hope he goes back to his Rock en Espanol roots or at the very least his native tongue on his next album.
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