I love Italian Prog!!!

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   Nice one Mandy!

As you know i also love Italian prog, it is a realm where you will always find something great, an old hidden gem, a new promising band, there is always something to be proud of.

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memowakeman Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 19 2005 Location: Mexico City Status: Offline Points: 13033	Posted: January 09 2009 at 11:57
	Nice one Mandy! As you know i also love Italian prog, it is a realm where you will always find something great, an old hidden gem, a new promising band, there is always something to be proud of.
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Angelo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: May 07 2006 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 13244	Posted: January 09 2009 at 11:42
	...with bands like If, J'Accuse and Pennelli di Vermeer, all added to PA in the past 9 months we have prove that there's still more prog coming from bella Italia. And good prog as well. Edited by Angelo - January 09 2009 at 11:43
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mourningknight Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 20 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 203	Posted: January 09 2009 at 10:00
	I'm totally in agreement with you Mandrakeroot and I'm not even Italian! I can't understand someone being a Progressive rock fan and not liking RPI. But,to each his own I guess.To me,Italy and the UK own the Progressive rock world. They produced (and produce) the most incredible bands and music and for me,define what Progressive was and is. Some of the other bands I love,not in your list,are Le Orme, Semiramis,The Trip,Reale Accademia Di Musica,Osanna , Rovescio Della Medaglia and Balletto Di Bronzo!!! RPI RULES!!!!!!

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	Italian Prog is great:Etna has just finished playing and I'm waiting for Augusto Croce's book.
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Mandrakeroot Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Italian Prog Specialist Joined: March 01 2006 Location: San Foca, Friûl Status: Offline Points: 5851	Posted: January 09 2009 at 08:16
	It is strange to write a thread on a theme that really splits PA! However, I writing about this theme and I beat the hilt (sorry for the term not exactly elegant... But I wanted to make my state of mind). I'm Italian and Italian is my heart and my mind. So I think that also Italian Prog is my type of music! Here in PA is present a section called Italian Symphonic Prog... That is not correct because in the world this genre is called RPI, stands for Rock Progressivo Italiano (please in Italian language sir...!!!). This is a movement and not a musical genre. However for PA this is a musical genre. But I do not want to open polemics that are harmful only to conceive. In 1982 I was 4 years but already loved 'Eye In The Sky' by Alan Parsons Project. I love in 1982 I Pooh songs pre 1975, Banco and PFM were not unknown to me in those years, New Trolls, Franco Battiato, Angelo Branduardi or I Delirium (via Ivano Fossati) also, even if with their POP songs. Also I Dik Dik and Alan Sorrenti are known by me. Natural this fact, you say, you're Italian... Do you believe that for a child all this it means little... And when it exploded the Classic metal Revival I followed most the Italian bands like Eldritch, Heimdall, Rhapsody (Of Fire), Labyrinth, DGM, Domine, Macbeth... Which are all in Prog side of this movement! Thanks to ProgArchives and ItalianProg I discovered so many groups of 70's and dozens of sites have been for me a source of inspiration to discover new talent in the RPI (which can not be good ... Unfortunately!). But if you now want to argue: 'As if he pull... The RPI groups sing in Italian language and therefore is easy to say that loves them. he knows the language! ', you are off track. In fact, the lyrics of the RPI are so complicated that some swear are obscure even to those who had written! And the music... The music is not so easy. As the lyrics the music is, in certain songs, obscure as the lyrics. What like me about Italian Prog (All Italian Prog... From RPI To Italian Prog Metal) is the heat that each song/ composition issues. Even in the album that i do not digest. You are free to criticize and hate what I wrote but you can not say that this heat is not noticeable. Because everyone wanted to erase from ISP from PA but then the whole Italian Prog is loved and with high ratings, not only in PA! I love Italian Prog... Italian Prog is my life (as athe women) and I defend and promote Italian Prog until death! That is why I am in this World! Whether you like it or not like it! My Italian Prog preferred bands/ artists (in random order): - PFM; - New Trolls; - I Dik Dik; - I Delirium; - Il Perigeo; - Alan Sorrenti; - Il Baricentro; - Banco Mutuo Soccorso; - Area; - Osage Tribe; - Franco Battiato; - Fabrizio De André; - Angelo Branduardi; - Opus Avantra; - Fabio Zuffanti's projects; - Crystals; - I GiGanti; - Alunni Del Sole; - Nuova Compagnia Di Canto Popolare; - Goblin Mandi, Andrea.