This is a four piece Italian project that made this debut-CD with one goal: making music as a tribute to the sound of the legendary Italian bands like METAMORFOSI, BIGLIETTO PER L'IFERNO, BANCO, IL BALLETTO DI BRONZO and Le ORME. They released it last year on the known Italians progrock label Mellow records.
I got in touch with the band and Maurizio answered my questions.
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When,
where and by whom was your band born ? Did any of you, past and
present members,
play in any other bands before joining up in your band ? Why did you choose
that name ?
My
band started His history in Turin (Italy) the past october 1979 named
AQUAEL.
We
were all teenagers in love with Prog. The original line-up was formed
as follow:
Maurizio
Galia (Me)- keyboards,vocals
Enrico Testera - Bass
Nicola
Guerriero – guitar
Aldo Leone - Drums
Nicola
and Enrico are still my mates now, where Aldo is still a good friend
but he stopped
to play drums the past 1985. None of us played in other bands before.
The name
"Maury e i Pronomi" no longer exists today. It was deleted
in favour of the restoring
of the original name AQUAEL and I beg your webmaster to write this!
The
past 1994 there was a momentary disbanding and I recorded three
albums as solo
artist.
Maury e i Pronomi is my "solo" project with the support of
my old band mates.Three
years ago Mellow Records, ever unsatisfied by that "strange"
name, forced
me to restore the original name AQUAEL and I did it with my old band mates.
Your
one and only album so far; (Ec)citazioni Neoclassiche was released in
2004.
Please
tell us more about this album.
That
is not my only album! As solo artist I recorded three albums since
1997. The first
"Ziqqurat nel Canavese" by "Maury e i Promemoria"
( A Babylon Pyramid in the
Canavese) was released with the support of many from my old mates and
a band called
"Promemoria" the past november of 1997. It was a
cooperation project. The second
album "Tanganica, the past and the future" was released in
march 2000. It was a
compilation of old AQUAEL tracks with three new unreleased ones. The
third was "(Ec)citazioni
neoclassiche”. This was recorded between 2001 and 2003 with my old band
mates Enrico e Nicola plus Marco Giacone Griva on lead guitar, Sergio Cagliero
as second keyboard player and Sergio Ponti on drums. It contains new
songs plus
a suite "Il racconto deli Dei" (the God's tale) who has
fragments from old tracks wrote
during the past 1980 and 1981. In fact, that album is the perfect
AQUAEL album
I would like to have seen released in 1981!!
This
last will be reissued and repackaged as AQUAEL album very soon.
What
have you been up to since the release of your album and what is your
latest update
? What is your plans for this year and beyond ?
Well,
as you know, we are present into a CD tribute to Santana "Guitars
dancing in the
light" published by Mellow Records the past year 2010, with our
version of "Moonflower".
I painted the cover and did the graphic design. We are present for the last
time as "Maury e i Pronomi" because our track was recorded
in october 2006 (!!!).
That explains the big delay of time of prog releases in the world!!!
Two years ago,
with the restored name AQUAEL we recorded a brand new track "Murat Begins"
(our first ever track wrote in english!!) sung by Silvia Delfino for
the forthcoming
new Cypher Arts project "Pirates Tales" (the same label of
"Colossus of Rhodes").
We are very upset and disappointed from those big delays of time
waiting for
the final release!!! A shame!!! One week ago we mixed our version of
"Run through
the light" (a “Drama” cut) sung by Silvia Delfino for the
forthcoming Mellow
Records tribute to YES. For this tribute I painted the cover one more
time.
I
hope for the release of a compilation of old and new unreleased
tracks this year. We are
discussing this with Mellow Records during these days.
Another
important and parallel thing is the publishing of my book "Prog
40" over
forty
years of progressive rock the past 2009.(see picture below). We are
preparing the
english
version for the world this year.
For
those of us unknown with your music; how would you describe you music
and which
bands would you compare yourself with ?
This
is a very difficult question. I prefer to invite all from the
audience to listen to our music
and do their reviews. The only thing I have to say is about those
artists who are my
masters: Pink Floyd, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, VDGG, Le Orme,Lucio
Battisti, Franco
Battiato (big Italian artists!!) Mars Volta, Radiohead, Ultravox,
Steely Dan and
many others.
To
wrap up this interview, is there anything you want to add to this
interview ?
I
would like to invite all from progarchives fans to see our official
site:
www.myspace.com/mauryeipronomi
(although we are AQUAEL now!) and listen to
our
music. There they will find all the news and the links to buy our
music.
APPENDIX:
Maury
and Aquael discography:
MAURY as solo artist
MAURY E I
PROMEMORIA ZIQQURAT NEL CANAVESE MPCD1 1997
(private
pressing)
MAURY E I PRONOMI TANGANICA, IL
PASSATO E IL FUTURO MPCDX 2000 (private
pressing)
(anthology
with Aquael and Maury's tracks)
MAURY E I PRONOMI
(EC)CITAZIONI NEOCLASSICHE MMP 467 2005 Mellow
Records
GUITARS DANCING IN THE LIGHT- A tribute to Santana MMP 489
A/B Mellow Records
(Maury e i Pronomi version of
"Moonflower")
AQUAEL
PIRATES TALES
(With the track "Murat Begins") CYPHER ARTS 2011 (?)
TALES
FROM THE EDGE- A tribute to the music of Yes Mellow
Records May(?) 2011
(Aquael plays "Run through the
light").
Thank you to Maurizio for this interview
Their PA profile is here and homepage's here
Edited by toroddfuglesteg - March 09 2011 at 05:51
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