A journey through the Italianprog scene

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 richardh wrote:

 Octopus II wrote:

I am ashamed to say that other than PFM , I am not familiar with any other prog bands from Italy.
I do love PFM though, and fondly remember buying 'Chocolate Kings' back in the day. 

I vaguely remember back in the day the track Celebration being played on radio a bit. I purchased Chocolate Kings probably about 15 years after it's release when it first became available on CD. Did nothing for me tbh. Looking back now with the benefit of hindsight it seems that PFM were becoming more technical at that time and losing some of the 'feel' they had in those classic early releases. It's not a bad album but nothing stands out to me.
Recently I've added a load of Italian releases (modern and old) to my listening rota but there is so much music being put out to just concentrate on one thing so it's a very slow catch up for me!

I was aware of Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, but had never heard any of their albums. I rectified that by downloading the first three albums from Amazon.

I also downloaded the Le Orme album - Fenora E Senora. All superb albums! 