DIAMANTI

Their debut CD "L'ultimo miraggio" (1994) was a fine progrock CD with hints from early Marillion. Here's the successor entitled "Diamanti", released in 1999 so we had to wait five years! On this CD Mad Crayon sounds tight, fluent and convincing, their compositions are tasteful featuring lots of pleasant changing climates, from dreamy to bombastic. The band contains two keyboardplayers and three guitarists, this culminates in many soli. The best moments are in "Deserti" (dreamy first part, then a saxophone solo, sparkling piano, a moving guitar solo and great interplay between violin and piano) and "Glorioso destino" (many fine musical ideas and strong soli). The progrock from Mad crayon doen's sound original or complex but they deliver very melodic, harmonic and pleasant music. FORZA ITALIA!