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Topic: Ciccada, symph-prog from Greece
Posted: June 03 2010 at 10:09

Yr welcome!

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Posted: June 03 2010 at 09:58

thank you for the kind comment AtomicCrimsonRush, you can listen some more tunes on the myspace site of Fading records:
http://www.myspace.com/fadingrecords

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Posted: June 03 2010 at 08:45

I found this to be compelling music with very original style. 'An Endless Sea' features strong piano and acoustics, lovely gentle high vocals. There are symphonic nuances and some quirky time signatures. It is uplifting music but darkened by sudden outbursts of guitar heavy riffs. The textures of light and dark, of tension and release are excellent augmenting the atmosphere. The guitar work and violin are enhanced with flute passages. The lead guitar trills are great. It focuses on mainly instrumental work. That flute is so nice amidst a sea of guitar and crashing drum fills. The piano is lonely at the end with a violin or cello as accompaniment. I liked it a lot.

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Posted: June 03 2010 at 08:23

Hi Harmonium.ro

the main members of the band are Greek, I mentioned the Italian guys involved because Yugen and DFA are quite known in the prog world but the band is totally Greek.
www.myspace.com/ciccada
As producer I tried to involve musicians I know well and works well on this music so I chosen some Italian guys.
Yes the label is Italian but as I made with AltrOck I try to produce good music it doesn't matter if it's Italian or not.
thank you for your interest
ciao!!
Marcello

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Posted: June 03 2010 at 04:04

This band is really good, you should suggest it for addition in the PA database. More extensive sampling would be needed for that, though.

Just a curiosity, how is this band Greek if all the band member names are Italian? And the label seems to be Italian, too.

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Posted: June 03 2010 at 03:06

thank you to you AtomicCrimsonRush!

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Posted: June 01 2010 at 10:26

Will check this out. Thanks for the track.

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Posted: June 01 2010 at 09:44

The first release by Fading records is now available:

Ciccada "A Child in the Mirror"

Progressive rock music with folk touches and female vocals. With some influences from Gryphon, Spirogyra, Gentle Giant, Flairck, Renaissance, Jethro Tull, Anglagard....

Involving:

Alberto De Grandis: DFA
Valerio Cipollone, Pietro Cavedon, Mattia Signò, Paolo SKE Botta: YUGEN
Mastering by Udi Koomran

You can listen a complete track here:
http://production.altrock.it/home.asp?lang=eng_&id=44&id2=44

or some extracts here on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/fadingrecords