Kerygmatic Project (Italy): For...Somewhere?

Totally unknown band who've been around since way back when (well 1998, at least) and sound pretty damn good to me. Not outrageously proggy, (some songs have a melodic, almost Asia-like AOR feel to them), but prog nevertheless. A three-piece in the style of ELP (keys/bass/drums), though sounding nothing like ELP really.

Edited by yam yam - January 11 2013 at 20:20

As with fellow country men The Watch, it's fairly obvious where these guys have lifted their inspiration from, but most of the Genesis flavour does however emanate from the vocals. Sure there's a similar 80s vibe in the synth department, often recalling And then there were three through Duke, but from there on end - the friendliness and quite 'open' songstructures suggest to me an altogether different beast. The melodies actually remind me more of Eros Ramazotti

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Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - January 13 2013 at 01:00

^ Checked their videoclips and agreed with Ivan. Also for me, not Symphonic nor Neo ... Related or Crossover?

yam yam wrote: I'll add this to Crossover's chart as soon as Neo have a second 'move' or 'no' vote entered for them in their own chart. I think we should at least give this band a chance in Crossover before looking at the Prog-Related option.

I voted move, I really didn't hear what I would think of as Neo for my tastes.  Crossover maybe.

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: yam yam wrote: I'll add this to Crossover's chart as soon as Neo have a second 'move' or 'no' vote entered for them in their own chart. I think we should at least give this band a chance in Crossover before looking at the Prog-Related option. Let me give you an honest opinion Yam Yam. Respectfully, Prog is not award or a quality certificate to give a band a chance to be in a full Prog Genre. A band is Prog or  not Prog, if it's Prog Related and we force their inclusion to a full Prog genre, we are lying to our readers in order to give them a chance to be part of a genre where they don't belong. Hope you take it well, it's my 100% honest opinion. Iván

Opinions, as many of them as there are people on this site.


However unexpectedly, I believe in this particular case, Iván is correct. This is rather weak material. There is something, but Prog-related sounds like a best choice to me.


Edited by Marty McFly - January 14 2013 at 17:34

http://progfreak.com/Kerygmatic-Project-155164.html?path=pa/recent  

b_olariu wrote: ok I got it, I hope they will be soon apoved,

yam yam wrote: Totally unknown band who've been around since way back when (well 1998, at least) and sound pretty damn good to me. Not outrageously proggy, (some songs have a melodic, almost Asia-like AOR feel to them), but prog nevertheless. A three-piece in the style of ELP (keys/bass/drums), though sounding nothing like ELP really.   Just two albums in all that time - & both released in the last two years.   Anyway, rather than me waffling on about them any more, here's their own story taken from the 'about us' section of the band's own website: http://www.kerygmaticproject.com/en/     "Kerygmatic Project was born in 1998, created by Samuele Tadini, Danilo Nobili and Marco Campagnolo, with the purpose of composing original music that recover in style and construction the great British progressive rock tradition of the seventies and eighties, renewed tradition with a new key able to embrace different styles, so as to constitute an original sound well recognizable. The Kerygmatic Project compositions are affected, in fact, from the contributions of various genres taken by rock, pop, jazz, fusion and classical music compositions, by proposing that, in fact, could hardly be categorized in a precise genre and that are the result a well-defined philosophy.  According to a definition that seems appropriate, the Kerygmatic Project can be seen as the fresh expression of prog & pop music, a term coined by the group, as they are among the few to have put in a cohesion not cloying, but well balanced, what a pleasant and non-trivial drifts from pop music with art-rock, which comes from the progressive tradition.  The choice to organize themselves as a trio, giving much of the keyboards, there is only one element that can remember Emerson, Lake & Palmer, but also the most characteristic expression of someone who wants to do with essential something that transcends it.  Some of the admirers of the group, use to call it as an Emerson, Lake & Palmer style trio, with a sound and character very similar to the Genesis Collins period era, but with an originality all its own.  The Kerygmatic Project, while not ignoring the great Italian tradition of PFM, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso and Le Orme, just to mention some significant examples, prefer to use the English language. The internationality and the musicality of the language, make English the language chosen for compositions which are channeled in a tradition that, initially, as we already mentioned, has its own origins in England between the end of the ‘60’s and the early ‘70’s."   PHILOSOPHY  "The Kerygmatic Project philosophy is very simple: no prejudice and no party involvement. Rationality, emotion and the Christian faith, exercised in a context of respect for the person, become determined element for a creativity that is free to roam anywhere, but well aware of the need to refer to those absolute values which are based on truth and not on nothing.  The Kerygmatic Project music is therefore an expression of a language universally effective which has many shades and colors. Their music does not aim to be entirely new, but rather represent a renewal in the context of a precise tradition.  Accommodating their music means to accept an ideal expressive content that does not stop at mere pretense of an occasionally passing play, but that tends to make reflect deeply on issues that, sometimes, can also be distant from those commonly used in musical composition.  The originality of this, if you want to talk, perhaps is in the fact that literature, history, psychology, art, science, philosophy and theology, become the favorite fields of research of the group, as here it has been shown clearly. The group does not want to make music for the body but also for the mind, well aware that the protagonist whom they claim is always the person."   NAME  "The term “Kerygmatic”, which comes from the “Kerygma”, has two basic meanings, and from both, in fact, the group has taken on the aspects that best represent it.  In the common meaning of the term, of Greek origin, it means “message” or, more accurately, “proclamation”. This is the main meaning accepted by the trio: Kerygmatic Project want to convey musically the importance of the communicability of ideas in a global sense.  In a philosophical-theological meaning, the term “Kerygma” means the earliest example of Christian preaching. In ancient times, in the community of origin, the term designated the core of Christianity. Even in that meaning the group took inspiration.  Kerygmatic Project are in fact a compact core in which the expression, communication, imagination, technique and humility (following the Christian way), become essential elements of their being a group oriented to the research and experimentation."     - Marco Campagnolo / keyboards - Danilo Nobili / drums - Samuele Tadini / bass   http://www.kerygmaticproject.com/en/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kerygmatic-Project/105805846116201 http://www.youtube.com/user/kerygmaticproject http://www.myspace.com/kerygmaticproject (not updated in more than a year, no audio samples)   GREEK STARS GALLERY (2011) 1. Greek Stars Gallery (6:55) 2. Perpetual Motion (2:02) 3. There’s no Ground For Complain (7:48) 4. Beautiful You Tonight (7:42) 5. Starlight (4:59) 6. Stars and Angels (6:16) 7. The Tiger Paper’s Great Parade (4:28) 8. Where The Bell Tolls Again (4:15) 9. The Academy (8:05) 10. The Landscape of Mind (4:12)   All tracks composed, arranged and performer by Kerygmatic Project Recorded at the Dreamer’s Lake Studios, Carciano di Stresa – Italy, 2011. Management: Marco Campagnolo, Danilo Nobili, Samuele Tadini Recording engineer: Danilo Nobili Produced by Kerygmatic Project   NOTHING BUT TRUTH (2010) 1. We Believe 2. It Isn’t All That it’s Cracked up to Be 3. So… I Have Lost You 4. Taking Down Some Notes 5. Broken Mirrors 6. The Self-Made Man 7. I Wanna Kiss Your Heart 8. Nightmare Presage 9. Whispering Hearts 10. Nothing but Love 11. The Dawn of the Century 12. Creatures of Light     All tracks composed, arranged and performer by Kerygmatic Project Recorded at the Dreamer’s Lake Studios, Carciano di Stresa – Italy, 2010. Management: Marco Campagnolo, Danilo Nobili, Samuele Tadini Recording engineer: Danilo Nobili Produced by Kerygmatic Project Photographer: Davide “Dave” Varalli     Listen to the whole of 'Nothing But Truth' here:  http://www.tunecore.com/music/kerygmatic-project or on the band's multimedia (audio) page: http://www.kerygmaticproject.com/en/multimedia/audio.html   Some tubes:   From 'Nothing But Truth':                 And from "Greek Stars Gallery" (the last three full songs are live versions only I'm afraid):                         There are certainly elements of symph in some of this stuff to me, but watered down by the AOR type song structures to a large extent, so I ain't sure where to send them tbf. I've seen this described as RPI, but it's not RPI as far as my own scant understanding of that sub goes (they sing in English for one thing) and Proggnosis have them as Progressive Rock: Symphonic - Other/General: http://www.proggnosis.com/ARTIST_DETAIL.aspx?AID=11214   They belong on the site - so, I give you: Kerygmatic Project     Thoughts?