The group Mindflower was born in 1994 when Fabio Antonelli, Fabrizio Defacqz and Alberto Callegari decided to find a specific way to express their own musical and philosophical sensitivity through rock-prog music.
The band has so far released four albums. ProgArchives c/o Finnforest brought you http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=42294" rel="nofollow - so it was about time to get an update from them. Fabio answered my questions. ###########################################################
Your biography has
been covered in your ProgArchives profile so let's bypass the biography details.
But which bands were you influenced by and why did you choose that name ? mindflower
is a sinthesis beetween mind for some deep meanings that we would like to give
to our music but with sweetness, so flowers, if possible of course. How is it to run a
band in Italy these days ? about me:
now I'm studying astrophysics that's my first interest and after my composition
studies I'm writing chamber and orchestral music but with mindflower we have new
projects for new cd and our dream it's to create an opera near a " chamber rock
style " This is an archive
based interview also intended for the fans you get well after both you and I
have passed away so let's go straight to your albums. Please give us your
views/some words on your albums, starting with.......
Purelake from
1995 In our new
projects there is the re-edition of our first album purelake. This is a simple
album, maybe easy in arrangements and also too much " naif " but this cd is on
my heart for their simple sweetness in some melodies. Fairy tales meanings in a
poetic language to speak about our meanings about silent dimension of the space
..this is our pure lake.
The Art of Dreams
in a Little Bottle from 1998 This is
the beginning of my walk to chamber and orchestral music of my present. It's a
sinthesys beetween strings arrangements and silent sounds
Mindfloater from
2001 Our rock
album, more energy, guitars bass and drums. But the meanings of words are the
same, as a unique walk during all our life
Little Enchanted
Void from 2009 Our most
complex and difficult album....maybe too much difficult and complex, also in
words and meanings. Now I'm studying astrophysics and I understand better that
about some meanings about cosmology and dark matter in the universe are able to
speak only scientists..not mindflower For those of us
unknown with your music; how would you describe you music and which bands would
you compare yourself with ? We like to
describe our kind of music as " chamber prog rock " and we are walking to more
silent and simple meanings in music and words. We're reaching the silence!! I
can speak about my music interests: Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Mike
Oldfield.. How is the creative
processes in your band from coming up with an idea to it's being recorded ? Sadly our
process is very slow, maybe we're too much old, tired men and we're not Genesis
so for a little and unknown band is very difficult to make real every project
and dream because all problems of life are more great. Then we never play live
our music, this was a big problem for us. Little Enchanted
Void was released two years ago. What have you been up to since the release of
this album and what is your current status ? What is your future plans ? Sadly our
hair are gray now and our hearts are very tired. This is the problem and for
this we are very slow in our works. But now with new energy we're working to a
new project for a " chamber rock " re-edition of our first albun called purelake
with maybe new songs To wrap up this
interview, is there anything you want to add to this interview ? Many and
many thanks to all ( maybe really few people ) that are interested in our music
and the meanings of our songs and we apologize because for our age and difficult
lifes we can't do all in our dreams Thank you to Fabio for this interview
Their PA profile is http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=243" rel="nofollow - and their homepage's http://www.myspace.com/mindflowerprojects" rel="nofollow -
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