DAEDALUS

DAAL is the Italian duo formed in 2008 by Davide GUIDONI and Alfio COSTA offering a singular multi-layered music based on metal, soaring, stoner and dreamlike; group instrumentally describing dreamlike, contemplative and melancholy atmospheres on the state of the composer, also exploded. Concept album, the 7th, on the myth of Icarus wanting to overcome his limits, here the endless symphonic, melancholy, dark, complex and tormented experimentation. Ettore and Bobo assist them in this intropection

'Journey Through The Spiral Mind Part 1' with an overlooping musical journey to torture your mind with minimalist synth layers, avant-garde chamber music with a dark and ethereal atmosphere; electric tonic break to amplify this feeling then hovering atmosphere à la 'Saucerful Of Secrets' by PINK FLOYD where piano and synths offer a languorous air finalized by a cello spleen. 'Icarus Dreams' takes off on a rhythmic tune with a powerful metallic groove accompanied by tribal percussion for a time before returning to this heady tune; melodic symphonic break and 'Painting Wings' for the most spleen piece with a sound reminding me of the flights of the twilight KING CRIMSON; ceremonious air amplified by this sound of musical saw reminiscent of the delusions of the film 'Delicatessen' for a very good moment, the dreamlike, dark and introspective finale with a sound of end of flight.

'Labyrinth 66 Part 1 & 2' starts with a dark and repetitive electro-spatial universe, on a slow crescendo; bordering on improvisation and austere climate just with this flute; the 2nd part refers to Frippian notes, on ZAPPA for the reading of the tormented guitar, on a crystalline and symphonic musical cascade. 'In My Time Of Shadow' follows for the dreamlike track with proven spleen; an admirable melancholic progressive ballad, a contemplative vintage tune with two beautiful guitar and synth solos in a Genesis version. 'Journey Through The Spiral Mind Part 2' gets back into the Crimsonian vibe with just that Mellotron keyboard; nervous then spleen to move without words, pompous and majestic like a hymn on the flight of man.

The deluxe version offers 'Minotaur' with a trying intro, looking for the sound of the creation of the monster, SCHULZE comes to mind. 'Sunrise' on the same vein with an evolution of the air bringing more clarity and solemnity while remaining dreamlike with the languorous guitar. 'Moonrise' drives the point home with a tormented air like the setting sun letting the moon light up the world, contrasting our life in duality.

DAAL plunges us into a universe filled with pleasurable melancholy, vintage reminiscences, ranging from KING CRIMSON to GENESIS via Elton JOHN for the intimate piano solos. It's beautiful, complex because it's instrumental but it's very moving, so inclined to meditative listening. DAAL is almost indecipherable, DAAL is to be listened to religiously.