A journey through the Italianprog scene

Thank you all for the kind words. By the way, I started this blog back in 2009 and in 2011 it became the chapter of a book...

FROM PUGLIA...

LENULA, from Brindisi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeHsNEn6AKU

They have released a debut album titled Profumi d'epoca. You can listen to it in streaming:
http://www.rockit.it/lenula/album/profumi-depoca/20616

Andrea, lovely band!! Lots of energy, very upbeat! Great bass playing, shimmering psychedelic guitar work, glistening keyboards and snappy drumming!

The heavier section in the middle at just after three minutes and ambient section just after starts heading towards Post Rock a little, which is not something I enjoy too much, but everything returns to greatness for the finale.

Nice and melodic, lots of potential!

Wonder if I should buy the EP they've got available on Itunes, it's only a few dollers, and what you've shown here Andrea is very good!

Thanks as always!

Some great finds as usual Andrea.

I would suggest pitching La Rua to prog-folk based on the first album, but the "Downtown" track from the second album is gorgeous blissful art rock....what a beautiful song.

You could try Athene in psych, I've a feeling they would succeed there.

For our part I'm adding Lamanaif to our watch list.  I think they could work in RPI although we will surely need more than 4 songs to properly eval.  When they have a second release we'll take them up. 

Edited by andrea - December 24 2012 at 10:26

^ I really like this...  I see they are available on Amazon.  Thanks Andrea

I don't mind Marchesi! I was saying to Jim that while the vocals are a little monotonous, and they have definate traces of Neo-prog, there's plenty of positive things to this band, lots of fire in the playing and cool arrangements! Definately one to keep an eye on....and lovely cover artwork seals the deal too.

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We'll be eval-ing them for sure

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Edited by ProgJack - February 10 2013 at 09:43