ABBANDONO DEL TEMPO E DELLE FORME

What makes the world or progressive rock better, is that despite some people say it has dead and some other purists only listen to their 70s favourite acts, it is still alive and with a lot of great bands to discover and listen. As some of you know i am a loyal follower of the Italian prog rock scene, over the years Italia has become my favourite country regarding prog rock, and lately with bands like J' Accuse..!, Il Bacio della Medusa, Akt or Coral Caves among others, i am truly pleased and happy with the music those bands are offering.

J' Accuse is a band that start playing in the early 00's, and after a lot of work they released in this 2008 the album entitled Abbandono del Tempo e Delle Forme, featuring 6 songs, 3 long compositions (over 10 minutes each) and a total time of 53 minutes approx, and what i like of this album, is that it has a very interesting mix of styles, it is not stuck in just one style, so we will listen to very different things from one song to other, which sometimes fails, but in this album that mix is completely succesful.

The album opens with Introduzione, you don't need to learn Italian to know the meaning of that word, so as you can imagine this is a short piece that shows the door to enter to the world of J' Accuse..!, the song has some landscapes and some birds sounds effects that remind me a bit to Echoes by Floyd, it has a constant drumming and then a heavy guitar at the end that leads to the next track... Il Tempo Muta Le Forme continues immediately with the same heavy guitar, and after a few seconds the vocals enters with of course that great Italian language. This is one of the first long compositions, and probably the heaviest of them all despite after some minutes, it has some softer sections . Overall the song has a great power, and a great work by all the members.

Sul Bordo Dell' Abisso is the second long song of the album, and it definitely has a less heavy sound, here is where the mix of sounds in the album will be noticed throughout the minutes. There is a moment where the guitars remind me a bit to Oceansize and some kind of alternative rock, but then in the middle of the song, they return to a heavier style where i can feel a sense of anger that is being released with the music that when it is fully released, the music becomes lighter and with a relaxing feel, let me tell you that the musicianship is excellent, in the last minutes the guitar sound is very post-rock like, so that is another different style into the same song, what a magnific blend.

L' Angelo as i could read was inspired by Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake, it is a shorter track but it returns to the heavy style that we listen in the first song, this is to be honest my less favourite track because i believe their work could' ve been better if they used a slower tempo song.

Cercando un Punto Lontano is another 6-minute song and contrary to the previous track, this is soft as hell, and great as hell too. After the storm, everything is calm...this is how i describe this beautiful and mellow song, it's a song with an spacey mood and that again shows what the band can do, i mean their vast blend of styles that fit perfectly into a single album, after a few minutes the ryhtm is a bit more intense and the vocals enter and make the song even better, a great moment in the album for sure!

And in the end (sadly everything has an end), we have the longest epic entitled Ricorre L' Abbandono and i believe it is their most complex and finest song,with a great mixture of styles again, it has some heavy moments, spacey ones, some darker passages and even a jazzy guitar solo. Within the song we will listen to several time and tempo changes, which is obvious since it is a long track with different passages and movements, it has some nice bass lines and what i like a lot during the whole album is the work of the drummer, always constant and precise with his times, the outro of this song is very emotive, and it does sound like a goodbye where the band is leaving everything they can offer, and putting their maximum effort on it, an excellent song!

What a great album is this, fans of Italian prog must listen to it, and fans of prog rock must know that there are bands like this with something new to offer, and i bet your ears will be happy after you listen to this interesting release. My final grade is 4 stars, highly recommendable to any prog lover.

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