UOMO DI PEZZA

Here is an album that I have known for several years and that I always hesitated to rate, so much it confused me at the first listening. I didn't know what to think of this strange mix between traditional Italian singing and progressive rock. It took me a long time, and several listenings, to finally understand that there lies the genius of this group. My mind, too much impregnated with the Anglo-Saxon prog, had not succeeded in opening itself immediately to this new approach so creative.

Today this album, which finally appears to me in all its extraordinary variety and complexity, delights me by the alternation, even the fight between the almost ethereal purity of the song, most often accompanied by a piano ("Une Dolezza Nuova"), a 12-string acoustic guitar or a liturgical organ, and the Hammond organ or the synthesizer, which introduce more rhythmic, even aggressive or oppressive parts ("La Porta Chiusa").

The three boys of Le Orme, undoubtedly very attentive to the music of their time, realize here a clever mixture of influences going from the Italian folklore ("Gioco Di Bimba") to the symphonic prog ("La Porta Chiusa" with the very Genesis accents) while passing by the fusion ("Alienazione" where we feel the influence of Santana, notably of the album "Abraxas").

But far from being satisfied to copy and assemble these multiple sources, they appropriate them to better transcend them and create a music and a sound quite unique and of an incredible lyricism. As for the realization, it is simply magnificent, as well on the level of the amazing quality of the sound as on the magnificent drawing of the cover.

I finally did the right thing not to rate this album from the first listening and to come back to it regularly, until I finally managed to grasp all the richness and beauty of it. And it is now without any hesitation that I give it 5 stars.

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