IL TEMPO DI FAR LA FANTASIA

I really have mixed feeling for this album. Not the best sound quality and the drumming is quite pedestrian while the singer fails when compared to the RPI singers of the 70's. There's guitar on here? The keyboards are outstanding and the draw for me here but the negative is the Tony Banks love that's going on. A very GENESIS sounding album and to be fair not a lot of vocals on this one and they aren't bad at all just not up to RPI standards in my opinion.

The 90's were hard on RPI so I would easily put this in the top 20 of that decade with NUOVA ERA's "Il Passo Del Soldato" standing alone at the top. This is a four piece with the guitarist also being the singer. The side long opener "Canto No.1" is just under 23 minutes and without question the highlight. There are orchestral bits on this record along with strings so I don't know if they are sampled. Another uncredited instrument that I hear is the harpsichord. Like others have mentioned I hear a Neo-Prog vibe at times but this is more Symphonic.

A keyboard album no doubt and in a style that most of us love, but there's too many issues for me to go 4 stars here.