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Raff 
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24429 |
 Posted: February 04 2009 at 18:42 |
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I think "L'evoluzione" on Darwin! is quite clearly against the dogma of creationism, as you can see from the translation (not exceptional, but it will do) published on the Arlequins website:
http://www.arlequins.it/translations/Banco-Darwin.asp On the whole, I don't see a strictly anti-God attitude in Banco's lyrics, but more of a tension towards the unknown, even if tempered by doubt. |
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NotAProghead
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Errors & Omissions Team Joined: October 22 2005 Location: Russia Status: Offline Points: 7842 |
Posted: February 04 2009 at 22:03 |
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Thanks for the link, Raff. I hope one day I'll take both Italian and English lyrics and try to dig into them.  We all know the faith and the church (as an institution) are not necessary the same things.
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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andrea
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Joined: May 20 2005 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 2064 |
Posted: February 05 2009 at 00:13 |
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According to Francesco Di Giacomo “ |
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NotAProghead
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Posted: February 05 2009 at 00:23 |
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Andrea, did you have a chance to talk to signore Di Giacomo?
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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Alberto Muñoz
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Posted: February 05 2009 at 10:09 |
Look fine the poster that you post here Andrea, and that's right is a concept album of the evolution of human kind according to BMS
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andrea
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Joined: May 20 2005 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 2064 |
Posted: February 05 2009 at 14:00 |
Francesco Di Giacomo and Rodolfo Maltese... More recently Donella Del Monaco during this other meeting...
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NotAProghead
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Posted: February 05 2009 at 20:01 |
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Andrea, definitely I asked you not in order to see some jpg-file.
 Did they tell you something interesting for this thread visitors? |
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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andrea
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Joined: May 20 2005 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 2064 |
Posted: February 06 2009 at 01:06 |
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Seminars about Italianprog... Of course there were something interesting to discuss! Italian prog was more than a music subgenre, it was a kind of way to express "revolutionary" feelings and attidudes. Sooner or later I will update and expand the article I wrote for this site. I'm not going to report the content of those seminars here... It would be too complex!
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NotAProghead
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Posted: February 06 2009 at 01:48 |
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Thanks, Andrea. I mean did you have a possibility to talk to musicians AFTER seminars and ask them about plans for new albums, live DVDs, side projects, some memories etc?
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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andrea
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Joined: May 20 2005 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 2064 |
Posted: February 06 2009 at 09:55 |
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Well, you can ask questions during the seminars (in the end there's a "question time"). Usually prog artists are not there "for the money" they do not act like "rock-stars" and are very kind persons. I like buy CD from the "hands" of artists when possible and talk with them after the concerts. i have a good souvenir of artis such as Le Orme, BMS and many others that I met after the shows...
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NotAProghead
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Posted: February 06 2009 at 10:45 |
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Andrea, I'll be waiting for your article. Hope it will contain some interesting things from after-seminars conversations with musicians.
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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NotAProghead
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Posted: February 06 2009 at 19:45 |
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INDACO — Amorgos Review by DamoXt7942 (DamoX)
Beg your pardon I've not heard another INDACO's album and can't evaluate them well, but I suggest Amorgos is absolutely their essence. Is this suggestion correct? The work's strong impression can let me say this comment. First listen to the first track Amorgos . I wonder how you can feel. Forgive me tellin' my impression but I felt the sound of this song can hear like Kitaro or Sohjiro, Japanese New Age musicians with synth and wind instruments. Many formations and mixtures are in this album. Oriental percussive sound, solemn synth, African beat, waving and fuzzy voice, hot mandolin play...things like that. All of them should construct sounds with their identity and character. Because of their particularly particular sounds (!), on Nel TempoFrancesco Di Giacomo took lead vocal but INDACO's sounds can let his great vocal be slightly dim. What happened! :-) At last, FWIW I've said Italian rock have some Oriental flavour, and INDACO is, I consider, the typical band with Oriental and exotic style. Folks from Orient! Let's listen! P.S. This band was recommended as an Oriental-flavoured band by NotAProghead. Thanks NAP! Thanks, Damo, for mentioning me in your review. Though that's not the point. Judging on the number of reviews, INDACO is overlooked by majority here. It's strange, because it is a real supergroup. More than half of BANCO members involved, constantly or as guests, in this project: Rodolfo Maltese, Pierluigi Calderoni, Vittorio Nocenzi, Francesco Di Giacomo. Add here Mauro Pagani, Andrea Parodi and lots of great musicians. IMO the band deserves better recognition. Most of reviews end with the words like "you must be on a folky side", "not essential in prog". And what? I think it is interesting to see what Banco "do on vacations" and, in general, another side of Italian prog. |
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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Geizao
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Posted: February 07 2009 at 11:16 |
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Thanks for the lists, Mandrakeroot. You’ve done well. So, there are lots of things of Italian progressive rock to talk about. They
have a league of their own. Darker, gothic, more dramatic, and
sometimes little bit more mellow. So, what do you think ‘bout
E.A. Poe or Atlantide?
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DamoXt7942
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Posted: February 08 2009 at 05:25 |
Thanks NAP for your comments. When INDACO I listened for the first time, indeed I can't feel the album is typically progressive, but listening again and again I can realize what INDACO should wanna do...worldwide music style they could hold and absorb. Well, whatever I said, my most important point of this album is the first phrase "HAHAHA"... yeah, I felt very happy!  Edited by DamoXt7942 - February 08 2009 at 05:26 |
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andrea
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Joined: May 20 2005 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 2064 |
Posted: February 08 2009 at 14:50 |
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Well, interest about Italianprog seems to be growing on internet...
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Finnforest
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Posted: February 08 2009 at 15:49 |
How can that be Andrea??? This isn't even a real Sub you know He's a nice guy, the site looks to be another good resource for Vinyl hounds especially as that is his emphasis. |
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Raff
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Posted: February 08 2009 at 16:07 |
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Very good site indeed - especially for a genre that doesn't really exist
!Anyway, Micky just had a look at the Top 100, and almost had a fit when he saw no Sulle Corde di Aries, Ys only # 31, and Palepoli only # 42 .... All jokes aside, it looks like a real labour of love, and will become an invaluable resource for anyone who loves Italian prog, both in its Seventies incarnation and in its more recent manifestations. |
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micky
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Posted: February 08 2009 at 16:15 |
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oh that is sweet.... love the write up on Battisti especially. Bios need some work.. but it is a work in progress. I'm sure we all will drop him a line and give him our support. For me... a few Battiato suggestions... very slim pickings on that list hahhaha
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Raff
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Posted: February 08 2009 at 16:24 |
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I was quite surprised to see legendary singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini on the list, though when I opened his entry (which still lacks a bio) I saw which album had been chosen. Now, Guccini's Radici was one of the soundtracks of my teenage years - me and my friends knew the lyrics by heart - and some of the songs do have indeed some prog overtones (the two samples on the site are superb). Anyway, prog or not, Radici is an album that every lover of Italian music should be familiar with, just like De André's masterpieces.
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micky
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Posted: February 08 2009 at 16:27 |
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^ that's one I don't know... will be checking those samples out.
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