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Poll Question: Pick your 3 best Italian Prog one-off albums (only 3 please!)
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21 [21.88%]
5 [5.21%]
10 [10.42%]
1 [1.04%]
13 [13.54%]
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I prefer the "softer" side of RPI , so the Celeste choice was easy. Celestial!
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What about L' uovo di Colombo??? one of my favorite bands




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Museo Rosenbach for me. I'm jealous of Finnforest,Raff and Micky who know this genre so well.  I think i've reviewed most of these but i look forward to soaking in them if you know what i mean.
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Maxophone, Museo Rosenbach, Semirams

though I missed that one band which imo is the best rpi ever: Cervello  
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1. Museo Rosenbach
2. Il Balleto di Bronzo
3. Semiramis
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1-Semiramis
2-Balletto
3-Enzo
4-RRR
5-Museo
6-Alusa
7-RADM
8-Campo
9-Locanda
10-Celeste
11-Maxophone


That's mine in order, at least on this day--it can change!.  Semiramis is a classic....Tom Hayes famous quote:

"Combining elements of Italian folk, circus, hard rock, Baroque church music, jazz, classical, and a good dose of insanity, Dedicato A Frazz pounds every sense, challenges every synapse in a flurry of ideas. After literally hundreds of listens, I still hear a different album each time. There is no weak link, no attempt at copying others works, no tries at banal commercialism. Just uninhibited reckless abandon of the imagination combined with musical expertise. Most tracks have a few hundred ideas and change moods faster than a bipolar woman left in the cold. Acoustic moments are quickly offset by heavy electric ones. Quiet moments of solitude are blasted away by militaristic might. It's never enough to have one striking contrast. No, Semiramis pile it on from every angle. Synths go awry, voices scream, guitars go a hundred miles a second, drums jettison you across the room. How could a group compose so many ideas? There are literally 15 albums on this!"


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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Originally posted by American Khatru American Khatru wrote:

Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

In my opinion, Ys stands head and shoulders above the rest - one of the greatest keyboard albums ever recorded. And to think that in Italy you can find it for under 5 euros!

Anyway, if I may offer a suggestion, there is at least another one RPI one-off that deserves a mention: Pholas Dactylus' Concerto delle menti: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=957
One word of warning, though: the vocals are very peculiar (spoken rather than sung), and the lyrics (in Italian) totally out there. The music, though, is fantastic - very heavy and dramatic, with a strong King Crimson vibe.


Wish I knew it.  Awesome cover, really looks like it belongs!  Sorry.  I'll have to find that.


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Points: 732 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 25 2009 at 18:47
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

In my opinion, Ys stands head and shoulders above the rest - one of the greatest keyboard albums ever recorded. And to think that in Italy you can find it for under 5 euros!

Anyway, if I may offer a suggestion, there is at least another one RPI one-off that deserves a mention: Pholas Dactylus' Concerto delle menti: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=957
One word of warning, though: the vocals are very peculiar (spoken rather than sung), and the lyrics (in Italian) totally out there. The music, though, is fantastic - very heavy and dramatic, with a strong King Crimson vibe.


Wish I knew it.  Awesome cover, really looks like it belongs!  Sorry.  I'll have to find that.
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Locanda, Museo Rosenbach, and Maxophone for me... but Ys could easily replace any of those...
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In my opinion, Ys stands head and shoulders above the rest - one of the greatest keyboard albums ever recorded. And to think that in Italy you can find it for under 5 euros!

Anyway, if I may offer a suggestion, there is at least another one RPI one-off that deserves a mention: Pholas Dactylus' Concerto delle menti: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=957
One word of warning, though: the vocals are very peculiar (spoken rather than sung), and the lyrics (in Italian) totally out there. The music, though, is fantastic - very heavy and dramatic, with a strong King Crimson vibe.
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Points: 732 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 25 2009 at 18:32
I discovered Rock Progressivo Italiano for myself largely due to ProgArchives.  I am hooked for life to this sub-genre!  This poll is for all lovers of RPI's early 70's flowering.

As I got into the bands, it was a most striking thing to me how there were all these cases wherein great musicians would make one album... then end.  All things must pass surely.  And then I noticed how, on repeated listening, it was usually these albums that I would turn to most, that I would come to call my favorites.

Above I've listed all 11 of the one-off albums that I have.  I'm sorry if I've missed any, but I couldn't honestly represent them anyway.  (For purposes of this poll I consider a band to still be a one-off even if they had one earlier record that was clearly not prog, like Balletto; and even if they did release another album but only decades later, like Celeste; and believe me I struggled over whether to include Il Biglietto per L'Inferno, but after all the recording of "ll Tempo della Semina" is in fact contemporary with their eponimus record.)

The poll is this: please pick out the three that you think are best.  It would be too cruel to ask people to pick just one out of so many great records, but to pick more than three I think would start to muddy the waters.  However I can't make the poll limit you to three so you'll have to do that yourselves kidsWink.

Of course I hope people post something about their picks, perhaps even put them in a first-second-third order.  I'm really curious to see the outcome of this, please participate!  I'll make my picks on, oh I don't know, page fiveBig smile.  (It'd be great if that many people knew and loved this stuff.)
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