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Progressive Experience - X

Recensito da Stelios “Cookie Man” Basbayiannis

The band was formed in 2003. The original group, made up of the drummer Paolo Lastrucci, the bass player Lorenzo Fini, the guitarist Orlando Perri, immediately tended to create music of its own under a progressive-rock influence. Afterwards a new element joins the group, the pianist Claudio Bianchi, who brought at the group the technical and compositional experience they need. In the spring of 2005 came the replacement of the guitarist Orlando Perri with Tullio Forteleoni and the entry of Giovanni Valente (from a well-known cover band), a singer with a rich live experience. In the Spring of 2006, the collaboration between the band and Forteleoni ended. The group in order to reach a more personal sound, decided the entry of two new guitarists Marco Giovannetti (music master at the Lizard Academy in Florence) and Francesco Muna?. In the summer of 2006 the band entered a studio to record the first official cd, entitled “X,” containing 10 songs. They are in the clone league, under the name DREAM THEATER. The good thing, is that they are all competent musician, skilled and with ideas. If you are in the “Dreams to Infinity” period and the ‘Train of thought” period of the before mentioned band, they will appeal to you. Heavy, yet melodic, neoclassical, then jazzy, innovative then progressive all in one and more. This band has a lot of advantages. A very good and persuasive singer, simplicity in their complexity, melody and a nice tendency to fusion, various influences. Mostly what you will hear is a mix of sounds, more experimenting in songs like “Unlogical experience”, more contemporary progressive in cases like “Moments of creation”. Bands like ENCHANT, KANSAS, DREAM THEATER, THRESHOLD are the ones, you can have in mind. They have the potential, what we need to see, is how long can they keep up in a good and more individualized pace.