“Tarot is great melodic hard rock”

En lineas generales me ha gustado mucho. Algunos temas ya los conocía, habiéndolos escuchado en un compilatorio previo junto a otras bandas como Requiem y El Pez; temas como "Trapecista...", "Cielos Claros" y por supuesto "Al tercer día...", este último es excelente, no me extraña que también haya sido incluido en el “Honduras Rocks!!”. También hay otros temas que me han gustado bastante, como "Lo que pasó", "Dame una señal" (excelente la línea vocal) y también otros más melódicos como "Libres como el viento" (más la version "oficial" que la alternativa) y sobre todo "Cielos claros" (magnífico!!). Para que veais que no solamente me gusta el Metal!!

Respecto al resultado final de la grabación, pienso que las rítmicas se "pierden" un poco en la mezcla final. Pero es una opinión personal y en ningún caso lo considero un defecto. La sensación que queda al final de la escucha es de máxima espontaneidad, lo cual aprecio mucho, de manera que tal vez esas rítmicas no demasiado prominentes sean lo mejor.

“..es un grupo de rock duro que recuerda a Topo y Asfalto...”

Premieres all around, "Yal Tercer Dia De Sol" is the first CD ever to be reviewed on these pages hailing from the Central American country of Honduras. Yes, you've heard correctly, Honduras. And contrary to what we normally get from these countries, TAROT do neither play Black Metal nor brutal Death Metal nor Grindcore (or any mix of these), but Melodic Rock, partly quite popish, but still, Rock.

The production, if not stellar, is surprisingly good (sorry for assuming a not so great production from the start), giving the music of this Tegucigalpa (capital of Honduras) based quintet the right basis to start from. Completely sung in Spanish, I, of course, do not understand a single word, but hey, I have a lot weirder languages in my collection, Estonian or Lithuanian have a quite, ehm, interesting sound as well and in those there is not a single word that I could make out, heh…

The guitars do not stand in the foreground with TAROT, but rather are a homogenous part of the sound, which puts more emphasis on accessible structures, good melodies (partly also borne by acoustic guitars) and the good vocals by Alexis Pineda, as the opening title track shows. Overall the music of "Yal Tercer Dia De Sol" is absolutely radio compatible and not in a negative way, but these five guys brings us very catchy songs, which still show enough substance to stand the test.

Be "careful" though, some of the compositions are very tame and could be a problem for some crunch-addicted ears, because they are very laid back and feature only very few guitars and most probably are too Pop for many among you.
But if you ask me, then TAROT is an excellent album to relax to and/or to just listen to, if you like regular Rock, so they do not need any "exotic" bonus, they can definitely stand on their own. (Online April 15, 2003)

Out of Honduras comes TAROT, and their latest CD is a very good high quality Latin-AOR record. The only pity is that there are not that many rockers on the album, because most of the 11 included tracks are (semi) AOR ballads, but nevertheless, what we get to hear is very impressive at times. The CD starts with the uptempo poprocker "Al tercer dia de sol", but the real highlights are up next with 3 great songs. The 2 lovely semi AOR ballads "Espacio entre los Dos" and "Libres como el viento" and the great uptempo AOR rocker "Lo que Paso". These 3 last mentioned songs are the best songs of the whole CD and show how good TAROT is able to sound. Nevertheless, the rest of the CD also has some nice moments here and there, such as the semi AOR ballads "Trapecista de Adobe y Neon", "Y las memoricias quedaron" and "Esa mujer es Mia". This album is recommended if you're into typical latin AOR (CODA, LA FASE, TERCER ACTO, ALIANZA, ALIADOS, ORO, DHAMM, TALISMAN PANAMA, CARTOON…).