GRIMALKIN
Rock Progressivo Italiano • Italy
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Symphonic Prog band from Italy with long tracks filled with tasteful textures, English vocals and outstanding guitar work. "The Drifting Sailor" is about half vocal based - half instrumental. This band also knows how to enrich by multiple layers its beautiful music, which revolves between YES, GENTLE GIANT and BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO. Recommended.
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Grimalkin Rock Progressivo Italiano
Review by
apps79
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The music on this work is typical laid-back Symphonic Rock, mostly instrumental, in the vein of SITHONIA or EZRA WINSTON with some spacey anxiety here and there, actually very carefully played with no particular risks.It starts off really strong and ''Ambush'' along with ''The Flute and the Knight'' are trully great pieces of music with pleasant guitar work and lush orchestral arrangements of high calibre.Then suddenly the band will move into monotonous space exploration with the 11-min. title-track being a huge dissapointment of Space Rock music with boring isolated instrumentation and really uninspired passages.Fortunately the next couple of cuts will see the band back on track with decent Symphonic Rock music, flashy synths,good organ and excellent guitar work without being exceptional.''Twin towers'' additionally contains the good sax work of Bifani.The next notable piece is the 10-min. long ''Covoyager'', which contains all the high and low marks of this album: Safe playing, some fantastic guitar hooks, bombastic spacey synths but also some one-dimensional passages with no interest at all.
While the band never officially called it off,it is rather questionable if they will come back for a second album,as Giancarto Apice followed a career as a doctor, Gabriela Rotoli moved on with her life as an employee in a telephone company and Giulio Cataldo continued his career in the music industry but now only as a graphic designer for Frontier Records.
''The drifting sailer'' remains a good Symphonic/Space Rock album despite its evident flaws and incoherence,as the guitar and keyboard work really shine at moments and will certainly offer the listener some beautiful music in a generally soft atmosphere.Recommended.
Grimalkin Rock Progressivo Italiano
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Grimalkin Rock Progressivo Italiano
Review by
Andrea Cortese
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator

Grimalkin is a "contemporary" italian prog band that released their only album to date in 1996 under the newly (then) born lizardrecords. The name Grimalkin can be defined as an old or evil-looking she-cat. The term stems from gray (the color) plus malkin, an archaic word for cat. During the middle ages, the name grimalkin (as cats in general) became associated with the devil and witchcraft. Women tried as witches in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries were often accused of having a familiar, frequently a grimalkin. Shakespeare makes the Witch in Macbeth say, "I come, Graymalkin". The band has elaborated a musical symphonic journey though the outer space with some important dramatic sections. Symphonic science-fiction.
The main role is played by strong atmospheric and ethereal keyboards that, sadly, don't sound vintage. Fortunately, there's an excellent interplay with fiery electric guitars and some convincing rythmical evolutions that make the final result sounding often excellent, even though blending plastic Genesis sound with plastic Pink Floyd. That's the main peculiarity, after many listenings. Sound is builded and structured upon some echoes effects that, despite being very useful to give the impression of a space odissey, seem to deprive, a little, freshness and genuineness of the good arrangements. Anyway, this is not unusual for the albums released in the first and mid nineties. Vocals are very sparse and the work becomes, de facto, almost an instrumental record.
The record includes two longer tracks above the 10 minutes long: "The Drifting Sailer" (including Sails, Lost Sunset, Lightening, Ice Irides, Quantum, The Energy Touch) and "Convoyager" (including Starbees, Cryogen Slumber Seeds, Queen Bee Odissey, Eclipse). These two represent the most dreamy and spacey parts, at the risk of appearing, somehow, boring.
The opener "Silence/Ambush" and the next "The Flute and the Knight" are more pompous. The second one, in particular, that also delivers very good bass lines and drums.
An album and a band to discover.
For all you cats' lovers!