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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2007 at 06:28
A new album for italian band COURT Tongue
 
 
 
 
It's titled Frost of Watermelon.
 
 
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What a return! Court where one of the best and most successful italian bands of the Eighties. This is the definitve comeback for the band after 10 years of silence. For our american friends, please take a look at the Court homepage, as they will undertake a long USA tour in June 2007.
This CD features 76 minutes in the best Court mood: classic progressive with great vocals, elaborate tunes with hints of Jethro Tull, Strawbs and an overall passionate italian feeling. Not to be missed!

 

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Points: 5851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2007 at 13:33
A new album from COURT? Is a good news!!!

I recommended this album of a good Jazz Rock from Tony Esposito:

Toni Esposito (Rosso napoletano) - LP


This is a marvellous trip to the Neapolitan and Italian version of Jazz with one of the best Italian percussionist!!!
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 18 2007 at 19:16
Great review, Guillermo. And great recommendation. Thanks.Tongue
 
 
 
 
 
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DUELLO MADRE — Duello Madre
Review by memowakeman (Guillermo Hdez. Urdapilleta)
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4%20stars Want some Italian Jazz?

Then why dont you check out this excellent record! Maybe when we hear the sentence "Italian Jazz Rock or Fusion band" , Area, Perigeo or Deus ex Machina could be the bands that we think about, those are excellents and better known bands, but let me tell you that in the early 70´s a one-record band (sadly one of that huge amount of bands that released a record and then dissappeared) called DUELLO MADRE, released one self-titled album, showing us that Italian Jazz was alive and very prolific in that era.

What we can listen in this album, is besides the always classic sound of RPI movement (only in some moments) a strong influence of Europeand bands, mostly British, with a superb sax playing and that magnific and sublime bass sound of Bob Callero, yes, the same who played for Il Volo, so let me point out that Duello Madre was a band whose members played in other Italian bands of the 70´s, so we cannot doubt about the quality of the musicians.

This album features 5 songs and more than 35 minutes of excellent music, since the very first song we can notice the direction of the album, their influences and the jazz oriented style, believe me that i was caught by the sound of the bass, the guitar is also delicious. "Momento" is a very nice song, with greta bass, and suddenly a change to a softer style with acoustic guitars and flute, to then finishing with a faster passage. In the next song we will listen a repetitive bass sound during the whole song, but that doesnt matter actually that is what caught me at first, this song has a kind of free jazz experimentation and is pretty good, not the best for sure. "madre2 is the longest and the best song here, i could say the mother song, in some moments reminding me to Mahavishnu and in others a Canterburesque sound, a slow song but very progressive, drums are great and the sax superb, with some nice guitar riifs. The last song is named "Duello" and as well as the other ones, is excellent and the bass very hypnotizing.

This album is not superb, though believe me it is excellent, another obscure gem from the 70´s scene in Italy, fans of Area or Perigeo should check this band.

Since i like it and enjoy it so much, i will give it 4 stars, it would be an excellent addition to any prog fan.

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Wow!!! Another new album is on stores by an important contemporary italian prog rock band.

"Neo" by La Torre dell'Alchimista!!!!

 
 
 
No credits available on the web so we should wait a little bit to add the album...I will go out to my beloved prog rock shop and order this (supposed to be) gem as soon as possible!Big%20smile
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Very good news Andrea, please tell me what you think when you get it!

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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2007 at 07:53
A new album for Conqueror : http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1871
 
It's titled "74 Giorni".
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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I hope to get it also very soon. No credits and tracking list available in their own web site. I'm curious to all these many italian prog albums that have been release lately!!!Big%20smile
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2007 at 08:02
A new contemporary italian prog band that is still not included in the site:
 
ALPHA TERRA. They have just released their instrumental debut album titled "Planet in a Day".
 
 
Wow!! Modern Italian prog has never been so alive and well as lately!!!
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2007 at 08:04
Hmmm. I should have checked this thread before I went on vacation to Italy. I visited a record store in Mantova, and was amazed at the amount of good Italian, PA listed music they had there. Didn't know what to get, so I ended up buying only the latest PFM. 
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Points: 5851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2007 at 11:59
From http://www.tototorquati.com/ita/toto/discototoVitaAmoreEMusica.php  is avaible the MP3 of the new album of Toto Torquati:

TOTO* TORQUATI

Vita, Amore E Musica

(Studio Album, 2007)
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Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Hmmm. I should have checked this thread before I went on vacation to Italy. I visited a record store in Mantova, and was amazed at the amount of good Italian, PA listed music they had there. Didn't know what to get, so I ended up buying only the latest PFM. 


See the PA charts for Italian Symphonic Prog/ Rock Progressivo Italiano. And good purchase!!!
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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 20 2007 at 19:40
Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

Great review, Guillermo. And great recommendation. Thanks.Tongue
 
 
 
 
 
200 ? 200: true); BORDER-BOTTOM: #aaaaaa 1px solid" alt="Duello MadreDuello Madre album cover" hspace=1 src="http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1869/cover_2357131182005.jpg" vspace=1>
 
DUELLO MADRE — Duello Madre
Review by memowakeman (Guillermo Hdez. Urdapilleta)
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4%20stars Want some Italian Jazz?

Then why dont you check out this excellent record! Maybe when we hear the sentence "Italian Jazz Rock or Fusion band" , Area, Perigeo or Deus ex Machina could be the bands that we think about, those are excellents and better known bands, but let me tell you that in the early 70´s a one-record band (sadly one of that huge amount of bands that released a record and then dissappeared) called DUELLO MADRE, released one self-titled album, showing us that Italian Jazz was alive and very prolific in that era.

What we can listen in this album, is besides the always classic sound of RPI movement (only in some moments) a strong influence of Europeand bands, mostly British, with a superb sax playing and that magnific and sublime bass sound of Bob Callero, yes, the same who played for Il Volo, so let me point out that Duello Madre was a band whose members played in other Italian bands of the 70´s, so we cannot doubt about the quality of the musicians.

This album features 5 songs and more than 35 minutes of excellent music, since the very first song we can notice the direction of the album, their influences and the jazz oriented style, believe me that i was caught by the sound of the bass, the guitar is also delicious. "Momento" is a very nice song, with greta bass, and suddenly a change to a softer style with acoustic guitars and flute, to then finishing with a faster passage. In the next song we will listen a repetitive bass sound during the whole song, but that doesnt matter actually that is what caught me at first, this song has a kind of free jazz experimentation and is pretty good, not the best for sure. "madre2 is the longest and the best song here, i could say the mother song, in some moments reminding me to Mahavishnu and in others a Canterburesque sound, a slow song but very progressive, drums are great and the sax superb, with some nice guitar riifs. The last song is named "Duello" and as well as the other ones, is excellent and the bass very hypnotizing.

This album is not superb, though believe me it is excellent, another obscure gem from the 70´s scene in Italy, fans of Area or Perigeo should check this band.

Since i like it and enjoy it so much, i will give it 4 stars, it would be an excellent addition to any prog fan.

Posted Friday, May 18, 2007, 17:36 EST
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great  review... and Bob Callero of Osage Tribe and Il Volo plays on that.  One HELL of a bass player.  Put him in some pansy English band.. and everyone here would know him.LOL
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2007 at 03:53
Hi Micky. Great to see you around...Wink
 
Bob Callero played also with Riccardo Zappa...Clap
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For you, all my friends:

TOTO* TORQUATI

Gli Occhi Di Un Bambino

(Studio Album, 1973)
Limmagine%20“http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2990/cover_1445112052007.jpg”%20non%20può%20essere%20visualizzata%20poiché%20contiene%20degli%20errori.
Review by Mandrakeroot (Andrea Salvador)
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— First review of this album —

5%20stars My review is produced using this release: BMG 82876544112

My Rating: 9/10 PA Rating: 5/5

Oh my God... This is a very beautiful gem. Is a very good gem of Song Songwriter Prog!!! Toto Torquati is one of the best Italian keyboarder, songwriter and sessionman, it is in Jazz that POP field thanks to the musical studies that it turned from the age of 5 years. Its sensibility derives from the fact of to be blind from the birth. If you think that "Gli Occhi Di Un Bambino" is a disc for keyboards you are outside road. Rather it is an autobiographical album, because Toto Torquati seeks to express those feelings that every blind test cause the scarcity of the sight (with the help of the beautiful voice of Gepy & Gepy and the lyrics of Sergio Bardotti and Sergepy). This is a trip from Jazz to Bach, to Pink Floyd and John Lennon to Wagnerand Verdi. And, everything with a sole sensibility. From one of the best Jazzist of Italy and Europe this is the minimum. The music is, in general, Symphonic Prog but with song songwriter approach and Jazzy arrengements with orchestra (that play a Wagnerian interludes and that have "La Terra Che Nessuno Conosce" to explode). "The Eyes Of A Child" (this is the title in English) is a very fine album also for the lyrics, since, even though written from seeing authors, they reflect the state of mind of a blind person, in this helped from the Soul voices of Gepy & Gepy (that knew well Torquati because their keyboarder). Other thing that astonishes is like Toto Torquati restive almost in apart, produced only interventions of support to the music, doing not result invading and without research rhythmic soli, does that it is appreciated with a so cheerful dramatic music. And, actual the combinations of the ingredients that I wanted to describe in this review, give back "Gli Occhi Di Un Bambino" a real gem.

One of the best Song songwriter Prog albums. One of the more aged well. Practically fresh like the water of a torrent of mountain. To listen to when it it is sought a comfort in a difficult moment.

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Originally posted by Mandrakeroot Mandrakeroot wrote:

For you, all my friends:

TOTO* TORQUATI

Gli Occhi Di Un Bambino

(Studio Album, 1973)
Limmagine%20“http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/2990/cover_1445112052007.jpg”%20non%20può%20essere%20visualizzata%20poiché%20contiene%20degli%20errori.
Review by Mandrakeroot (Andrea Salvador)
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— First review of this album —

5%20stars My review is produced using this release: BMG 82876544112

My Rating: 9/10 PA Rating: 5/5

Oh my God... This is a very beautiful gem. Is a very good gem of Song Songwriter Prog!!! Toto Torquati is one of the best Italian keyboarder, songwriter and sessionman, it is in Jazz that POP field thanks to the musical studies that it turned from the age of 5 years. Its sensibility derives from the fact of to be blind from the birth. If you think that "Gli Occhi Di Un Bambino" is a disc for keyboards you are outside road. Rather it is an autobiographical album, because Toto Torquati seeks to express those feelings that every blind test cause the scarcity of the sight (with the help of the beautiful voice of Gepy & Gepy and the lyrics of Sergio Bardotti and Sergepy). This is a trip from Jazz to Bach, to Pink Floyd and John Lennon to Wagnerand Verdi. And, everything with a sole sensibility. From one of the best Jazzist of Italy and Europe this is the minimum. The music is, in general, Symphonic Prog but with song songwriter approach and Jazzy arrengements with orchestra (that play a Wagnerian interludes and that have "La Terra Che Nessuno Conosce" to explode). "The Eyes Of A Child" (this is the title in English) is a very fine album also for the lyrics, since, even though written from seeing authors, they reflect the state of mind of a blind person, in this helped from the Soul voices of Gepy & Gepy (that knew well Torquati because their keyboarder). Other thing that astonishes is like Toto Torquati restive almost in apart, produced only interventions of support to the music, doing not result invading and without research rhythmic soli, does that it is appreciated with a so cheerful dramatic music. And, actual the combinations of the ingredients that I wanted to describe in this review, give back "Gli Occhi Di Un Bambino" a real gem.

One of the best Song songwriter Prog albums. One of the more aged well. Practically fresh like the water of a torrent of mountain. To listen to when it it is sought a comfort in a difficult moment.



fabulous album Mandi... one of the  favorites of my recent purchases..

Great review.. and highly recommended! Clap
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Points: 46838 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2007 at 17:24
Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

Hi Micky. Great to see you around...Wink
 
Bob Callero played also with Riccardo Zappa...Clap


just passing time till my next trip hahahha.  Coming again in 3 weeks.  I didn't know he did...  have some clappies Andrea. He's not listed on what I have.. which albums?

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Points: 13033 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2007 at 22:43
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

Hi Micky. Great to see you around...Wink
 
Bob Callero played also with Riccardo Zappa...Clap


just passing time till my next trip hahahha.  Coming again in 3 weeks.  I didn't know he did...  have some clappies Andrea. He's not listed on what I have.. which albums?

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Well, Celestion obviusly, then Chatka, then Trasparenze and then Haermea Embarrassed

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Points: 5851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2007 at 04:08
Micky wrote:
"fabulous album Mandi... one of the  favorites of my recent purchases..

Great review.. and highly recommended! Clap"

I Answer:
"I succeed to find the single ("Tenero Al Cioccolato") and, if God wants, also the last ("Vita, Amore E Musica") from Toto Torquati!!! 



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How I was wrong!!!Embarrassed
Bob Callero didn't play with Zappa...it was a "qui pro quo" (Bob Clark and Walter Calloni played with him).
 
Sorry! Anyway the music of Zappa is extraordinary, especially for the first two albums.
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 22 2007 at 11:13
Be happy, friends!
 
A new album for IMAGIN'ARIA has been released and it's titled "Progetto T.I.'A."
 
 
 
The album is based on a science fiction story written by Gianluca Milan, the guitarist of the band.Clap
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Oh, oh. The album has been already added and has a high rating...Embarrassed
 
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