Pan & Regaliz - Pan & Regaliz (Reissue) (1991/2003)

One of the pioneers of the Spanish Progressive, in the vein of the psychedelic-prog ambience. A band with a high instability in its line-up that didn't let it to become an important one. They ceased playing in the early 80's. J.J. Iglesias (Revista Atropos)

The first incarnation of Agua de Regaliz released a first single with the historic Els 4 Vents. Then, they decided to sign a better contract with Dimension label and change the name to "Pan" and eventually to "Pan & Regaliz" for the people to identify them with the first band. They had contract problems with the label but that was not a problem to record and release their only long play "Pan y Regaliz, featuring now Pedro Van Eeckout on drums. They recorded eight songs in english in a progressive psychedelic style, very unusual in Spain. Songs like "Dead of love", "Thinking in Mary" and "A song for a friend" were made thinking of a single in the purest psychedelic pop style with Jethro Tull touches. But songs like "One more day", "When you are so bring down", "I can Fly" and the experimental ones like "Waiting in the Munster's Garden" and "Today it is raining" make this record highly recommendable. e special touch of Guillen Paris on flute and the way that he modulates his voice, in addition to the excelent contributions of the other muscians, make this record one of the best in that time, and it has nothing to miss from any Krautrock or English prog band. Manuel Dachada

This band had the sound of the flute como sello distintivo and walked through fields close to psychedelic, but very close to progressive. They were not much complex but had a lot of personality, achieving very intense moments, alway with the flute of Guillem Paris as a main feature. The 9 minutes of 'Today is rainig' are his pysch particular promenade. There are also weird tracks like 'A song for the friends', sung in a oldie-movie-style, something like what Mercury did in the early albums of Queen, but before he started recording anything.