PASSPARTÙ

Very underrated album. One of those happy accidents where a prog band desperate for pop credibility and sales actually hits upon a rather pleasant formula. After the rather tedious jazz-rock dead-end of Jet Lag (Nova and Brand X and about ten million others did it better, boys, and before!), this is a return to songs, the Italian language and a sunny feel. Fantalita is superb quasi-bossa nova closer. Like everything here, it's intelligently harmonised and arranged; think And Then There Were Three recorded on a sunny Neapolitan day. BTW there are certain moments here and there which sound dangerously redolent of Brand X's Product - released a year later. Coincidence or something more sinister? ;)