ESM#40

A brief introduction; it still makes sense in 2015 to label the music, that is to want at all costs to differentiate kinds; maybe not and a clear example is the record that we examine which blends different genres to reach an attractive "fusion". This is the year in which "L'Estate di San Martino", the historic group of progressive Umbrian (but young in terms of record because their first album "Alder" was published only in 2006 thanks to renewed interest towards a "kind" which the progressive), celebrates the milestone of 40 years of career and does resumed his game once again; In fact, back in the market with an operation that could certainly seem risky, reread your last job (Talsete of Marsantino, ingenious anagram of the name of the group), according to an unusual pattern noise; I personally witnessed the growth of the product, from the presentation about 18 months ago in concert in a small and pleasant city, until the release of the album in question), and say that he does not "purely and simply", but by a deep change in the arrangements , favoring winds (also thanks to the invaluable contribution of Maestro Francesco Santucci, all-round musician who has managed to give a soul "jazzy" to work, and the introduction of other instruments (delicious percussion and accordion), the disc re-read thus becomes a project to be discovered again and opens the horizon for future work of the band); Talsete, published in 2012, is a work that certainly has its roots in the teachings of some leader of the international prog (Genesis of the first period after Gabriel in the first place), despite a personal search of originality as topics covered including its musical as well as texts, and we appreciate the work of the group that gradually grew to reach an effective executive level; we are pleased to recall in this regard that the group has so embraced the acoustic dimension to start the performance of Stefano Tofi who juggles very well the piano (as already observed in some tests concert), no longer immersed in the many electronic keyboards, but the whole group (Marco Pentiricci, guitars, vocals, woodwinds and harp Celtic, Sergio Servadio on drums, Massimo Baracchi on bass and Riccardo Regi on guitar) and offers a mature test showing that this could be the new path of the "ESM""; of course we must not forget that courtesy of the widow there is once again possible to listen to the wonderful voice in a couple of cameos of the late Francesco Di Giacomo who had already enriched the first version of "Talsete"; happy birthday "ESM", we hope that the future will bring even your new jobs to bring prestige to Italian prog but overall to delight the ears and if about ten years have produced four works of the group wait with confidence the new productions.