All Prog From Italy Appreciation Thread

I do not have the mentioned in angelmk post Il Castello Di Atlente's album. Sure the rest of mentioned albums are great albums.

^ Yeah, didn't exactly expect to see something like that when opening a thread for Italian progressive music. Rally, Italian prog, well what's the difference really?

Keppa4v wrote: For some reason I've never listened to Area before, now I'm checking out the two sample tunes from the 'archives and thinking about buying Arbeit Macht Frei and Crac! Very good sounding stuff. edit: Damn this song from Crac! is brilliant And there's a really interesting review by LinusW that I'm reading while listening to this for the third time in a row.

Linus is really a superb reviewer... pity I can't afford to read all his reviews

Crac! is superb, from my first couple of listens, Arbeit Macht Frei starts off superb... ends up a bit more ponderous.

Edit: oops


Edited by TGM: Orb - March 12 2009 at 12:30

micky wrote: have you tried Caution Radiation Area yet Rob?  don't remember if you had?

'Fraid not. Will head for it as soon as I can find a legit reason to go on amazon again... I'll need another piano music book soonish, anyway.

I was just dropping off one of our dogs at my girfriend's parents' place and when coming back home by train I put on YS again (still very much a mystery, but I'm enjoying cracking the code ). At the end of Introduzione there was this part that I couldn't remember paying attention to before; this hushed but passionate female monologue over a harpsichord pattern. It sounded really really good. Then I started wondering, is that really italian, what language is that speech in? I was wondering about that for a while, finally smelling that something was not right and took my headphones off to hear a woman behind me talking supposedly on her cell phone in Swedish, in a hushed but dramatic and expressive voice, perfectly in tune with the key and mood of the music I seriously thought for a moment that it was part of the song, it fitted in so perfectly, and was just silent enough so that I couldn't figure out the wrong language.

micky wrote: great pics earlier Mandy

Yes, the Rally of a Thousand Lakes.... Brought back memories, and made me sad.

Yes, what sounded like 'talo talo talo' to you is in fact a little ditty saying "tara tara tara tara" - just meaningless words made to accompany music, as I believe every language possesses. 

Ah, thank you for the hard work and unbearable pain you went through to get me an answer  If it was talla talla talla as Micky was singing along, it would've been the part of a guitar where the strings are attached in the lower end

Mandy's avatar is gorgonzola central ! I know, look whose talking!

tszirmay wrote: Mandy's avatar is gorgonzola central ! I know, look whose talking! <<<<<<<

not sure which scares me more hahahha

emaciated women or hair taller than I am