Great read on the great Osanna
http://translate.google.com/translat...m/&prev=search
BG
"When Yes appeared on stage, it was like, the gods appearing from the heavens, deigning to play in front of the people."
Wow, this new Arti+Mestieri sounds amazing. Let's hope the entire album is on par with this song.
Arti+Mestieri ordered! YEAH!
Some impressions from Bancos new vocalists:
No. 1 John de Leo
A singer with a strong RIO Avant background who used to be in Quintorigo
with Banco
No 2. Giacomo Voli a Young guy who ended up second place in The Voice Italy (and sounds like Robert Plant)
with Banco
Some short news:
The new Cherry Five Album is now out on CD
as is the rerecorded Album of Errata Corrige (CD/DVD)
Unreal City added a Violin/Mellotron Player to their line up
The updated list of things to come (of course incomplete)
Il Rumore Bianco -?
Panther & C. -? (final steps)
Yugen -? (Autumn)
La Bocca della Verita - Avenoth
La Fabbrica dell’Assoluto" - L'Ultimo Uomo d'Europa (September)
Goad - Moonchild (should have been out 4 years ago)
Castello di Atlante - ARX ATLANTIS
Nuova Era -? (final steps)
Trama -?
Höstsonaten - Cupid et Psyche (January 2016)
Il Rovescio Della Medaglia - Tribal Domestic (crowdfunding)
Una Stagione all'Inferno - "Il Mostro di Firenze"
Vaso di Pandora -?
VIII Strada - Babylon (Autumn)
Metamorfosi - Purgatorio (soon)
Church of Prog - Live
Diviae -? (might not happen)
Sinfonia -?
Alluminogeni -? (a Trilogy!)
Homunculus Res -? (September)
Samarcanda -? (disbanded)
Mad Crayon -?
Ingranaggi delle Valle -?
Maxophone -?
Moogg -? (final steps)
Presence -? (final steps)
Banco - Orlando (sadly very much in doubt now :-( )
Deus ex Machina -? (Spring 2016)
Syndone -? (not before 2016)
Orchestra dei Sassi -? (Band renamed into Eternit)
Slivovitz - All you can eat (crowdfunding)
La Machera di Clara - The Elephant Man (crowfunding ended in desaster)
Astralia - ?
Ezra Winston - ?
Stefano Agnini + Fabio Zuffanti - La Curva di Lesmo (15th Oct.)
Mad Fellaz - ? (2016)
Sezione Frenante - ?
Accordo dei Contrai - ? (maybe a double Album)
Le Porte non Aperte - ?
Universal Totem Orchestra -? (doubtfull most likley just a live tour)
Alphataurus - ?
AltaVia - ?
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I don’t want to get my hopes up too high, but new Nuova Era and Ezra Winston is extremely good news!
Sad to hear about Le Maschere di Clara. They’re an underrated band. I wonder if folks went off them when they realized they weren’t La Maschera di Cera.
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Nuova Era are about to finish the recordings of their new Album so we can be sure that this one will come in the not to far future.
Erza Winston are keeping deep in the shadows. It took me a lot of research work to find out about them recording a new Album.
But I found some reliable proof. There maybe a interview with them in on of next issues of the italian Version of the PROG Magazine.
It isn't their first attempt at a third Album though, so I would give it a 60% chance to come out finally.
I really hope that Le Maschere di Clara will carry on. They could only get 8 or 9 people to support their crowfunding
(including me).
New Nuova Era and Höstsonaten both make me so excited that I dance up the wall like Donald O'Connor!
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Of course I forgot 3 possible Malibran releases in the list of things to come:
Malibran - STRANIERO (rare, unreleased an cover versions. Lable: BTF AMS)
Malibran - Tracce (reworked older tracks with new and semi orchestral Arrangements. Lable : Electromantic)
Malibarn - Le porte del silenzio Remixed (and enhanced. Lable: Mellow Records (if they decided to still do CDs) (MP3 exists)
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The new Homunculus Res Album will Feature:
David Newhouse (Muffins), Aldo De Scalzi (Picchio dal Pozzo), Steve Kretzmer (Rascal Reporters, Regal Worm), Alco Frisbass, Wyatt Moss-Wellington.
Also in September:
Ellesmere "Les Châteaux de la Loire" a solo Project from Taproban's bass player Roberto Vitelli
featuring: John Hackett, Ant Phillips and the vocalist Luciano Regoli from R.R.R.
Don't know if this album has been reported yet (24 pages of new Italian progrock!). L'Estate Di San Martino celibrates their 40th anniversary with "ESM#40: Talsete, Il Viagio Acustico".
I didn't know this band, but found out that their previous album was called "Talsete Di Marsantino" (indeed an anagram of the bandname). The new album is an acoustic re-interpretation of that recording.
There're still a lot of Genesis-like 12-string guitar parts, but there are also a lot of folk-instruments used, while the saxophone-parts give the music a more jazzy style.
The only keyboards used are the piano and an accordeon.
http://www.estatedisanmartino.it/
THIS is something I'm looking forward to hearing!
Alas I'm very sorry to hear about La Maschere di Clara; like Progbear wrote, there's the assumption that many interestees possibly were turned off by something very far from that other "mask" band (whom they were perhaps expecting). LMdClara are indeed underrated - and underexposed. Some of those more overtly experimental progressive Italian bands are among the most interesting this country has to offer, IMO. And there's a LONG list there...
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Finally! Metamorfosi - Purgatorio is closing in (most likley at the end of the month)
Track list of new Malibran CD Straniero
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1 – Straniero (Malibran) 2011
2 – Fra i Sogni Tuoi (Malibran) 2007
3 – Un Canto Lieve (Malibran) 2007
4 – Canto di Primavera (Banco del Mutuo Soccorso) 2003
5 – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Traditional) 2003
6 – I Talk to the Wind (King Crimson) 2003
7 – Firth of Fifth Medley (VV AA) 2001
8 – Los Endos (Genesis) 2001
9 – The Whistler (Jethro Tull) 2006
10 – Again (Peter Hammill) 2006
11 – For Absent Friends (Genesis) 2006
12 – No Time To Live (Traffic) 2006
13 – La Stagione del Re (Malibran) 2006
14 – Flute Solo Tribute (VV AA) 2005
15 – Nuvole di Vetro (Malibran) 2003
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