Leno, Triana, Mezquita, 

Iceberg, Lone Star

These are all bands which I first heard in Spain around 1978.  Heavy rock, Blues, and Prog rock mixed with Jazz and Flamenco to varying degrees.

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Leno

For those among us that were rock fans in Madrid in the late 70's and early 80's this was "the album". The band was led by Rosendo Mercado who provides what has been a constant in this group's career: solid rock guitar, distinctive voice, and good lyrics. In Spanish, of course.

A must have album for those who want understand or remember what was Madrid in the late 70's and early 80's.

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Triana

Triana was a progressive rock band from the 70's and early 80's, heavily influenced by flamenco. It was composed of Jesús de la Rosa Luque (voice and keyboards), Eduardo Rodríguez Rodway (Sevilla) (voice and guitar) y Juan José Palacios "Tele" (Puerto de Santa María) (drums and percussion). 

The main goal of the band was to merge flamenco music with progressive rock. The band was influenced by other progressive rock-bands, like Vanilla Fudge and the early King Crimson. The band developed a hard progressive and experimental sound during its three first albums.

 http://rapidshare.com/files/97395936/Sombra_Y_Luz.rar

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Mezquita 

 A masterpiece! "Recuerdos De Mi Tierra" mixes fusion, symphonic, flamenco, and North African (Islamic) influences to define Spanish progressive rock. The music here simply doesn't slow down for a minute as your ears feast on relentless tempo-changes, odd time-signatures, and virtuoso playing.

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 Iceberg

Jazz fusion elements are all over the album, pieces like La d'en Kitflus and A Valencia are stunning, well played and very skillfull. The intricate drumming is great with lots of tempo and mood shifts , in fact on all albums of Iceberg are this kind of moods. This group has it all, creativity, musicianship, lengthy tracks, and stunning instrumentation. Some influences from early Mahavishnu Orchestra but not a copy. All the pieces are really incredible, with a stunning duel between guitar and keys, specially moog. In every track Kitflus and Sunyé develop their skills at the maximum, proving that they are among the best in jazz. Anyway a very enjoyble album, 4 stars. Iceberg here can fight with any giant band from the '70's in jazz.