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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Guldbamsen Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 02 2012 at 12:24
Old fart? Oh you kidder. Old people haven't got the slightest idea of how to shake dat booty to top notch Italian musicWink
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I've already talked about this fantastic 1980 album, but maybe the new ones haven't heard of it.
 
 
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Originally posted by hellogoodbye hellogoodbye wrote:

I've already talked about this fantastic 1980 album, but maybe the new ones haven't heard of it.
 
 
Appreciate all the links to cool stuff you (and others) find, I usually am 7 pages back listening to stuff that you guys post and while updating my wishlist..Smile.  The Art Fleury piece was quite interesting and abstract, love the percussions around the 2 minute area.
 
I really liked the link that was posted on the prior page, ...Here's a clip from it. Il PresidenteCool....very good!
 
Been wearing out the 1rst Alphataurus album, excellent!  Dopo l'uragano has a sound that reminds me of Bloodrock, old 70s hard rock band.  Looking forward to listening to Attosecondo from a link I saw a few pages back.
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Awesome new review from Brother ByrdClap

 Neque Semper Arcum Tendit Rex  by ANTONIUS REX album cover Studio Album, 1974
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Neque Semper Arcum Tendit Rex
Antonius Rex Rock Progressivo Italiano

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4 stars The first album of Antonio Bartoccetti and Doris Norton's music to appear under the Antonius Rex name, `Neque Semper Arcum Tendit Rex' is full of the same plodding gothic church organ and downbeat guitar work found on the Jacula albums, however some of the emotional hypnotic and trance like elements present on those albums have been replaced by a wild, unhinged and very deranged doomy sound. After the second piece, most of the tracks flow into each-other, creating one long nightmarish soundtrack. It's an immersive and haunting work, full of passionate playing and wild original experimentation.

As striking as Bartoccetti's guitar playing is on this album, the album truly belongs to Doris Norton's endless variety of darkly classical piano, trippy Moog workouts and spacey synth effects playing all over the top of her dominating organ playing. Special mention must also go to Albert Goodman's baffling drum-work, full of strange busy fills and over-powering random aggressive attacks. The combination of all these players creates a very dizzying, colourful and occasionally messy sound that perfectly fits the music.

Side A's title track has a creeping suspense dominated by Doris Norton's spectral organ and piano that floats amongst howling winds, Latin chanting and long drawn out heavy guitar riffs. It's a slow and unwinding piece that constantly builds in tension and uneasy fear, with a trademark wailing guitar solo from Bartocetti over unrestrained and oppressive organ in the finale. The organ has an occasionally flat and bent sound on `Pactus' that, while starting off as a typical Rex track, suddenly diverts into a lovely jazzy fusion styled 70's Santana-like piece with evocative lead guitar dancing around spacey keyboards and gentle percussion. The track is very tastefully played and surprisingly loose and restrained for this band - even subtle! It's actually one of my favourite overall pieces of music by this artist, even though it sounds very little like anything else they ever performed. Beginning as a creepy haunted house sounding piece, `In Hoc Singo Vinces' has lovely ghostly piano tip-toing around sinister organ, before Bartoccetti launches into some supremely sludgy guitar riffs over some of the dirtiest murmuring bass pushed way to the back trying to break through the mire. Stabbing organ notes and hard drumming smash down on the listener in the wild violent finale.

Dizzying synth solos throughout create a disorientating sense of feeling throughout Side B's `Non Fiat Voluntas Tua' with very addictive descending downbeat guitar riffs and booming percussion. Doris Norton sounds literally possessed on this one, with her endless swirling piano, stalking church organ and psychedelic moog solos. The centerpiece of the album might be the highly disturbing `Devil Letter', an experimental piece that alternates between dark music and evil story- telling. Chasing footsteps, creaking doors, pounding walls, tormented wailing and most frightening of all, a gnashing snarling devilish beast are interspersed with a lovely gothic choir and grand organ themes at the start and end. This exceedingly unpleasant piece is fascinating and quite original, very surreal, and gives this section of the album a breathless and predatory tone. Finale `Aquilla' is merely more of the same Black Sabbath/Iommi riffs with some slightly more dramatic piano and busy drumming before a shredding Bartocetti guitar solo. It does have quite a successful tension, but doesn't really offer much different to earlier parts of the album, and it ends very abruptly.

Fans of the earlier Jacula albums and doomy atmospheric gothic music will be right at home with this one.Others who don't like those albums will know to stay right away. I personally find all the Bartochetti/Norton releases endlessly intoxicating and daring, full of grand musical themes. Each of their albums stand as an original and unique statement, and I'm constantly drawn to the moody soundscapes and gloomy ambience of their work. Even though I don't have as strong an emotional response to this one as I do the first Jacula album, `Neque Semper Arcum Tendit Rex' is still another highly satisfying and moving work all the same.

Four stars.




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Appreciate all the links to cool stuff you (and others) find, I usually am 7 pages back listening to stuff that you guys post and while updating my wishlist..Smile. The Art Fleury piece was quite interesting and abstract, love the percussions around the 2 minute area.
"I really liked the link that was posted on the prior page, ...Here's a clip from it. Il PresidenteCool....very good!
Been wearing out the 1rst Alphataurus album, excellent! Dopo l'uragano has a sound that reminds me of Bloodrock, old 70s hard rock band. Looking forward to listening to Attosecondo from a link I saw a few pages back."
 
 
AEP, have you  listened to Lucio Battisti ? I discovered him a few years ago while I was building my RPI collection. Many many groups have covered his songs. Without being truly representative of a pure progressive style, this is a crucial personality of that music which I always come back.
In the middle of the innumerable float of talents of RPI, Battisti is the lighthouse.
 
Anima Latina (full album)
 
 
 
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^^^

Speakin' about Battisti's prog covers, the most important one  was made by Formula Tre. Their album Sognando e Risognando (you should remember the amazing cover sleeve...Embarrassed) is based upon the theme of the same titled song from the Battisti's Umanamente Uomo: Il Sogno album (1972).





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...again, speaking of Battisti... do you know  "Le Tre Verità"?

It's one of his proggiests. It's a single released in 1971 (the song - criminally - was not included on Amore e Non Amore).






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Andrea, I love : Le Tre Verita. You can find it on the Battisti VOl 4 album.
 
On the other hand (and I know that you and many are going to hate me), the cover of the Battisti song by formula 3 is the worst song I know in all RPI. I hear a hooligans drinking song supported on guitar by an Edward Van Halen playing as well as a Noel Gallagher. Wacko
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You're a connoisseur!! ClapThe song was included on that Vol. 4 compilation.

about F3: LOL

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Originally posted by hellogoodbye hellogoodbye wrote:

AEP, have you  listened to Lucio Battisti ? I discovered him a few years ago while I was building my RPI collection. Many many groups have covered his songs. Without being truly representative of a pure progressive style, this is a crucial personality of that music which I always come back.
In the middle of the innumerable float of talents of RPI, Battisti is the lighthouse.
 
Anima Latina (full album)
 
 
I was not familiar with him.  I just listened to this with a glass of Malbec Smile, it was delightful, thank you!  I really like his use of the brass instruments on this album or I should say, not the over use of brass.  It was used just perfect.  The album title is appropriate as you can hear all the Latin influences.
 
It is nice to know the history and influences of this genre which so far has been a treat for me to discover.
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Ok, so not prog this one, but I had to share it for the cover.....the Italians had some great album coversLOL


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MAMMA NON PIANGERE : Nr 1 & Nr 2. ( 1979 / 1980)
 
That indefinable (and sometimes unbearable) music deserves a listen.
 
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Originally posted by hellogoodbye hellogoodbye wrote:



I've already talked about this fantastic 1980 album, but maybe the new ones haven't heard of it.
 
 



I really dig this one Pierre! It's a strange beast to say the least- I also remember describing as such in my review, but it has something rather special about it.
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Very cool review David Clap

 
You're right about John Cage. I was searching for a classical connection, but I couldn't find it.
Just for the pleasure, some of his sonatas and interludes for prepared piano :
 
 
 
 
 
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Here's an Italian album I realy enjoy, all without really understanding a word of the lyrics:

Gianni D'Errico - Antico Teatro Da Camera



Not a super prog blowout or anything, but I felt it was a very melodic prog-lite album, kind of along the lines of the later Le Orme albums like `Storia o Leggenda'? Accessible introspective adult pop with progressive touches?
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Aussie, if you like that one.....you might want this one too.

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=19489
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Wow, that sounds really promising! Thanks for the heads-up, Finn! You had me sold at the heading right after your rating!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Finnforest Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2012 at 21:12
no prob man.....and your Rex review was awesome.....you got me all jazzed to pull that one out againBig smile
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