FORSE LE LUCCIOLE NON SI AMANO PIÙ

A considerable number of bands emerged in Italy seduced by the complex structures and the fanciful, mythological stories of progressive rock that radiated from the British Isles. Some went a relatively long and successful way like PFM, Banco and Le Orme, many others had an intense but short-lived existence and sporadic nostalgic revivals. Locanda Delle Fate belongs to the latter group.

Emerging in 1977, belatedly considering that the glorious hours of the symphonic genre had already begun to decline in the face of the rabid siege of punk rawness and other less 'brainy' movements, Locanda Delle Fate swims against the tide and releases "Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più", their first and only album until the later effort "Homo Homini Lupus" in 1999, twenty two long years later.

"Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più" borrows elements from Yes, Genesis and Camel, among other icons of the genre, and combines them with some smooth jazz sparks, and the particular and refined taste characteristic of Mediterranean bands, to elaborate a lucid proposal, copious in textures and variants, that starts with the instrumental "A Volte Un Istante Di Quiete"' and the protagonist participation of the duo Michele Conta and Oscar Mazzoglio sharing an arsenal of keyboards and synthesizers, and continues its way with the intricate "Forse Le Lucciole Non Si Amano Più" that intersperses splendid verses sung by the emotive Leonardo Sasso with passages full of colours (surely the best piece of the album), with the atmospheric and peaceful "Profumo De Colla Blanca" and its astral synthesizers very indebted to space rock and the excellent guitar solo by Alberto Gaviglio, also with the Genesian airs of the beautiful "Cercando Un Nuovo Confine", with the awakened "Sogno Di Estunno" and the beautiful and brief flute introduction by Ezio Vevey accompanied by the incisive hi hat of drummer Giorgio Gardino, and with the guitar arpeggios as a musical carpet for the lulling singing of Gaviglio (second voice of the band) in the aseptic and very delicate "Non Chiudere A Chiave Le Stelle".

Almost an hour that flows naturally and that has in the metaphorical dramatism and instrumental intensity of "Vendesi Saggezza" the ideal closing for an album that at the time had no major repercussion and that unfortunately, given its meagre commercial results, ended up weighing down the band's continuity.

Time, once again, has taken care of placing the album in a place more in keeping with its value: an excellent and representative work of Italian progressive rock.

4 stars

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