APOTEOSI

Very good one-shot Italian Symph band with a female lead singer. Starts out with an instrumental and right off you think of PFM, very pastoral and nice. The second song, which clocks in at over 14 minutes has female vocals. The song has many nice spots with synths that sound a bit dated to me. The guitar playing is fiery and rough, sort of bluesy which contrasts the spacey, bubbly keyboards. The drummer, by the way, is outstanding. I tend to zero in on the drumming more than the keyboards! The third song is my favorite, it features male vocals, more aggressive guitar work, slows down in the middle section and the female vocals kick in very beautifully. The fourth songs is a simple ballad sung by the female lead singer, nice but nothing special. The last song is instrumental and starts out spacey then gets aggressive fading out nicely. Overall, a nice addition to anyones Italian prog collection. My only complaints is the boring cover, shortness of the album and the dated keyboard sound, so I'll round it out to 3.5 stars total.