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POA

Blocco Mentale

 

Rock Progressivo Italiano

3.88 | 125 ratings

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toroddfuglesteg
4 stars Blocco Mentale was another excellent one-album-band from Italy. This album was originally released back in 1973, got no promotion and the band disappeared. I am sure there is one or two ex members sitting somewhere in Italy, sipping wine and have vague memories about their times in the band. I would love to hear their story. Blocco Mentale has certainly got the recognition they deserved more than three decades after they disappeared through the Mellow Records re-release on CD.

Blocco Mentale's brand of Rock Progressivo Italiano is pretty typical for this scene and hence; this album is a very good introduction to this scene for newbies. It most certainly was that for me, but I forgot to review the album back then. Something I am now correcting.

Poa contains forty minutes of lush Rock Progressivo Italiano with a lot of references to both folk music, italian pop, rock and jazz. Obvious references are PFM, Banco and Le Orme. The music is more based on good melodies than heavy rhythms. There are even some ballads here.

The vocals are excellent and so is the use of tangents, bass, drums, harmonica, guitars and some woodwinds. The songs too are great and the forty minutes floats by in the company of these great musicians. This music takes me away to a terrace somewhere in Tuscany where I am sitting under a tree, drinking wine and eating some Italian food. That's how good the sound and mood is on this album. And that is what makes a great Rock Progressivo Italiano album in my view. Hence the four stars.

4 stars

toroddfuglesteg | 4/5 |

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