JazzProgressive Rock

áMARXE · 6 March 2026

“Nostalxia adolescente” runs ten minutes and forty-four seconds, takes up nearly a third of the album and is where everything happens: a Virxilio da Silva guitar solo in the middle section that goes looking for Pat Metheny’s phrasing, followed straight away by a heavily distorted electric piano solo that breaks the calm of everything around it.

Juzz are from Pontevedra and they play jazz rock, with every title in Galician. The debut came out on vinyl in 2018 and áMARXE reissued it in 2024 with two bonus tracks; this second one, on the same label, is a far more settled affair. Da Silva writes the material and plays guitar, and the sextet is completed by Rosolino Marinello on tenor sax, Álex Salgueiro and Xan Campos on keys, Felix Barth on bass and Iago Fernández on drums. The sax and the keys both have work of their own: nothing here is filler.

“Das Cabinet” (7:34) opens with a theme the group stretches to the last bar, and “Alto do Paraño” (5:49) lays wordless vocals over a hook that keeps coming round. “Despois do final” closes in four minutes and two seconds on a distorted guitar tone burning slowly.

Outside the ten minutes of the second track, the record stays where you expect it to. The other four pieces are built on the repetition of a melodic hook and the group never quite lets go: everything is polished and everything is arranged, and the improvised share ends up a minority of the thirty-six minutes. Five tracks, released by áMARXE on 6 March.

Rating: 7/10

Text by Aina Torrents