CONTRAPPUNTI

Contrappunti is an excellent album that builds more off of what was done on Uomo di Pezza. The title track is spectacular, but does take multiple listens to fully appreciate. This song is in the same vein as Alienazione and ELP's The Barbarian; but Contrappunti is better than both of those songs in my opinion. Next, is Frutto acerbo which is a nice acoustic ballad featuring Aldo's beautiful vocals. The next two songs, Aliante and India, are more experimental but extremely enjoyable.

La fabbricante d'angeli is a fast paced song with great fast drumming from Michi. Notturno is the only bad track on the album; this is an ambient piece that you could play at halloween outside of your house to spook all the trick- or-treaters. The last song, Maggio, is truly a masterpiece that has one of the weirdest and yet most interesting solos with some cool drumming patterns.

To me, this album, along with Uomo di Pezza and Felona e Sorona, is the classic "trilogy" from Le Orme. Even though I don't think that Contrappunti is as good as either of these two albums (Uomo... and Felona...), I do think that it is a masterpiece of Italian symphonic rock. Because of the weak track Notturno, I would give this album 4.5/5.0 which rounds up to 5 stars.