\t\t\t\tSensations’ Fix was an Italian band that gave us the ever wonderful and mindblowing electronic\/prog album Fragments of Light<\/b> in 1974. Two albums later, they gave us Finest Finger<\/b>. The band still consists of guitarist\/synthesist\/vocalist Franco Falsini, bassist Richard Ursillo, and drummer Keith Edwards, but now they added a second keyboardist named Steve Head. Now I really can’t understand why on Earth the band needed a second keyboardist when this album concentrated more on the music (and the guitar) and less on the electronics than Fragments of Light<\/b>. Still the album is quite good, although in a more song-oriented manner. <\/p>\n
The albums opens up with “Strange About Your Hands”, a nice catchy number, but because it’s a vocal song, the vocals aren’t the best part of the band. Still a good number. The next is an instrumental piece called “Just a Little More on the Curve”, which harkens more or less to Fragments of Light<\/b> with more great spacy synthesizers. The next two are more guitar-oriented instrumental pieces, “Yardbirds Dream” and “Map” before coming to another vocal piece, the almost new-wavish “Boat of Madness”. I really dig the electronic effects played off an EMS Synthi A at the end. <\/p>\n
“The Left Side of the Green” kicks off side two, and although there’s some vocals, it’s a largely instrumental piece. The title track again attempts to harken back to the old sound of Fragments of Light<\/b>, although with vocals. Probably one of the better vocal numbers on this album. The album ends with another instrumental “Into the Memory”. One thing I noticed is about half of Finest Finger<\/b> has vocals (while Fragments of Light<\/b> only had two songs with vocals), and as I said before, the vocals aren’t the best part of the band, but at least the music itself is good. I don’t think this album had been reissued on CD, you’ll have to get it on LP. But it features a gatefold, inside includes a grainy photo sure to please any vintage keyboard nut out there. Basically the photo features the band performing, and in the keyboard department I see a MiniMoog, an Eminent (looks like a Hammond organ, but it sounds like a string synth) and an EMS Synthi A. <\/p>\n
While I don’t feel this album is as good as Fragments of Light<\/b>, it’s still an album worth having. Just expect a more song-oriented and guitar-driven album and you’re fine. Newcomers will obviously need to start with Fragments<\/b>.
\n– Franco Falsini: guitar, synthesizers, keyboards, vocals
– Richard Ursillo: bass
– Keith Edwards: drums
– Steve Head: keyboards, synthesizers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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