DECALOGUE OF DARKNESS

After some albums much appreciated by critics and audiences DAAL Alfio Costa and Davide Guidoni come to the seventh cd, with their instruments armor (including a celestial Mellotron !!!) and the contribution of some good collaborators like Ettore Salati and Bobo Aiolfi (guitar and bass) creating a work that draws heavily on the dark and evocative prog.

"Decalogue of Darkness", in fact, is characterized by timbres full of pathos, suffering, darkness and magic, from the first bars of the opener "Chapter I" we enter this musical world with a slightly obscure tone, that transmits a not indifferent tension, and if "Chapter II" brings to mind the sound of the great Italian prog of the past (Like Banco and Balletto di Bronzo) the following traces maintain a certain homogeneity, showing a band that keeps and indeed amplifies excessively the quality already shown in his previous works.

The master stroke arrives with the grand finale: "Chapter X" - a 10 minute mini-suite that may represent the DAAL masterpiece. It is a symphonic gem of rare beauty, played on soft tones in which it is possible to glimpse the Genesis and Pink floyd, the imaginary ones of "The Lamia" and "Echoes" to be clear, a marvel that is open by slow piano notes strings in the distance and guitar arpeggios that feed the pathos, then enter bass and drums and develops the main theme that will be resumed later, between the continuous and numerous proposed variations, accelerations, airy openings and much more Really a beautiful composition, DAAL not only do not disappoint, confirming at high levels and deserving more and more to be counted among the most interesting Italian reality today, but perhaps they also manage to reach their creative peak.

The purchase of "Decalogue of Darkness "is therefore strongly recommended, both for those who have already consumed the previous CDs, and for those approaching their music for the first time.