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CELESTIONRiccardo ZappaRock Progressivo Italiano3.83 | 43 ratings |
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What a good surprise listening to this album! I didn't think I could like an instrumental album
for mainly acoustic guitars so much, but the tunes here are so beautiful, sunny and intense
that you could almost sing them. Riccardo Zappa gives birth to a timeless work, where he
can display all his skills and fantasy, but in doing so he never tries to sound flamboyant,
never exaggerates, making his music sound even simple and straight. "Frammenti" is a
masterstroke: classical inspired arpeggios and folk tunes chase each other, ending up in a
phased guitar heaven which never fails to leave me breathless. "Tre o Quattro Quarti"
always reminds me of Angelo Branduardi, maybe for its particular hue lost somewhere
between Reinassance and celtic folk (with a beautiful binaural echo... I don't know if
Riccardo Zappa also produced this album. In this case he would be one of the finest Italian
producers).The title track begins with atmospherical passages, with interesting sound
effects, then evolves as a "poppy" piece, with synths reminding me of Le Orme. Maybe this
was supposed to be the core of the album, and it's a good track indeed, but I feel it as the
weakest one in the bunch. When you get to "Sonata Mediterranea" you really get
somewhere else, a dreamy and fascinating waltz with a wonderful melancholic main
melody; guitars are also used to mock mandolins, and the whole effect is the same as a
quiet evening on the Mediterranean Sea, just after sunset... "Mirage" is the natural
consequence to this piece, a lengthy track reminding "Tubular Bells" in its piling up tunes all
deriving from the main arpeggio, the perfect way to close an excellent album. Now, I'm
looking at my acoustic guitar and dreaming of playing such heavenly stuff...
paolo.beenees |
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