A masterpiece of classic dissonant and creative prog rock no matter how you slice or dice it from this one off band that I've always loved deeply. This one and Hero are the two best from that country in my opinion despite the sheer number of 'classic Italian prog' bands, like PFM, Banco, Le Orme, Alphataurus, Latte e Miele, Corte dei Miracoli, Maxophone, Museo Rosenbach, Celeste, Triade, etc. etc.
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Really it doesn't let up once in the course of the vinyl, everything thrown at you is crazy creative, unusually written, unique, dissonant. On top of that there is a variety of styles with folky acoustic, chamber instrumentation, and harder material. Note the English translation from google if you use chrome like billions of other humans do, here on discogs. Evidently some Alice in Wonderland references on the first side at least.
Thus on Alice nel pozzo the lovely acoustic guitar beginning evolves to modern classical chamber then on to hammond sustained chords, before the bell like chords of the theme return near the end and the track closes out with some crazy dissonance:
What an amazing musical time this must have been where you could start a song 'normally' and then pass on into this type of modern dissonance without skipping a beat. Totally amazes me. I wonder if (the great) Taylor Swift would consider adopting this style.
Then the track called Piccole Voci has always astounded me in its elaborate and intricate complexity, esp. since the opening is played on the acoustic guitar, again:
No need to continue posting samples, the remainder just carries on as above, ever new and ever interesting. I'm not so happy with the cover art though, my one criticism.
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and if someone can share flac/lossless we would all be grateful for this