All Prog From Italy Appreciation Thread

Just for a correct vision of this review I remember my first listen to 'Buona Fortuna'. Was 1981 and my brother had bought 'Buona Fortuna' in MC format... I immediately love this album... Also if I was 3 years old... And today I think that this album is a I Pooh masterpiece.

The songs are great POP/ AOR sings with great guitars and drums... And if you think that 'Buona Fortuna' because is a POP/ AOR album is not good you are outside road. Because 'Buona Fortuna' is a concept album, also if totally random, if I have to be sincere. A group of friends leave for a trip (they are perhaps the same Pooh?) and tell the emotions of this journey... Their experience... Without rhetoric. Musically is a disc that presents difficult moments of writing, because trying to put some music emotions I have added Pooh arrangements that recall the Toto or even Alan Parsons Project, not forgetting that it is a hard light album, although deliberately technical (but with aggressive guitars). The use of choirs makes everything much more heavy, though not overwhelming. In addition some piano parts can remember Elton John, even though the very distant future. 'Lascia Che Sia', 'Compleanno Di Maggio', 'Banda Nel Vento' or 'Buona ortuna' are great songs, not only in I Pooh discography. I think, because it is true, that 'Dove Sto Domani' is a song that in 'Parsifal' would have made even more. Here is not wasted... even if we lack little...! In fact 'Dove Sto Domani' is a ballad extreme close to 'Parsifal' style. If the technique is the base of this album, great is the Romantic 'Replay' that proper for the use of technical melody manages to find the magic. I could say that I pooh, at the time, had the good fortune to have heard Reo Speedwagon and had used that style to write 'Replay'. I think that Reo Speedwagon is the inspiration band also for 'Lascia Che sia' and 'Banda nel Vento'. Extreme interesting is also 'Fotografie' because is a Santana song and in this sense, also if coustic, 'Fotografie' is extreme heavy. The evergreen of I Pooh (in an album of evergreen... I am sincere...!) 'Chi Fermerà La Musica' is a simple 80's POP.

If you think that my description of 'Buona Fortuna' album is the description of a non personal album... You are outside road. Because the combination of the elements that are present in 'Buona Fortuna' album transform a simple POP/ AOR album in a masterpiece of music of the 80's. As you might think that I have a predilection to say that 'Good luck' album is a masterpiece, I must say that it is heard several times to be understood. Also a simple POP song like 'Chi Fermerà La Musica' must be understood as the first listening seems a normal song... But then ... So there appears in all its office and we can say that can be compared with Magnum, for example. Or the more romantic songs are a correct compafison with Alan Parsons Project of Barclay James Harvest.

'Buona Fortuna', in a correct sentence, is not a Prog album but in the economy of Italian music of 80's (and not only) is a great album. Also for Progsters, here will find that one of the most clear and honest contamination between POP, AOR and Prog. Listening to believe!