DELIRIUM

Important note: This is the reissue of 'Dolce Acqua' with diferent single cover and different track list, simply entitled Delirium (but, at the same time, is the definitive Ivano Fossati's Delirium album!).

Yesterday I bought (used) this CD and immediately I tried to find out what this CD was. Thanks to www.italianprog.com I discovered that this CD is Fonit 3000 budget version of 'Dolce Acqua'. But this is not 'Dolce Acqua (eng: 'Fresh Water') because 'Jesahel' is only a bonus track in 'Dolce Acqua', 'Canto Di Osanna's (eng: 'Hosanna's Song') and 'Haum!' are only single songs and 'Villaggio' (eng: 'Village') is from their 2nd album 'Lo Scemo Ed Il Villaggio' (eng: 'The Silly Man And The Village').

'Jesahel', 'Canto Di Osanna' (with lyrics inspired by New Testament) and 'Haum!' are not Prog but good examples of Neo Romantic italian POP ('Haun!' with heavy [but not invadent] arrangements) (P.s.: 'Haum!' have lyrics in the same field of New Trolls' 'Senza Orario, Senza Bandiera'). From 'Dolce acqua (Speranza)' (eng: 'Fresh Water [Hope])' the music becomes Prog. The style is a clear acoustic melodic Jazz Rock or acoustic Folk with flute (and in 'Villaggio' also with Martin Greece instead of Fossati).

In my mind all the songs plays in a good manner also if the Prog songs are not totally aged well because in certain cases are more important the arrangements than the melody.

This album is clear a rare and obscure release from one of the more famous (and succesful) RPI bands.