PAPILLON

The line-up of this Italian band and their strong classical influences is reminiscent of ELP, but the quality of their music obviously is much inferior to them. The suite "Pavillon" consists of alternating orchestral and quiet acoustic parts with vocals that sound quite mawkish. The rest of the album is rather light-Prog-ish sounding mostly more like jazz played in a piano bar, maybe apart of track 11 containing a quite good drum solo. Overall a rather nice but really not exciting album and I think there are many much more interesting bands to check in the 70's Italian Prog scene. Maybe one could give 1/2 star extra!