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BRASS BALLET - Duration: 00:57:52
- Available from: 03/05/2023
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Black widow
The beginning of the seventies was fundamental for the birth of the progressive movement in Italy, and the training that signed a series of works that entered rightly not only in the history of music in our country, but in that of the whole genre, became an object of worship for participants from all over the world. And if it is true that, for several reasons, the only one that managed to make a step towards a large international public was PFM, it is also true that today many of the records of those years can easily go to sponsors. of the best British schools. Abroad, of course, they had King Crimson, Yes, Camel, Genesis, Hetfield & The North and Gentle Giant; but we could answer with Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, New Trolls, Museo Rosenbach, Area, Ticket Per L’Inferno and, of course, Balletto Di Bronzo.
Gianni Leone’s band, in fact, had released “Ys” in 1972, a true avant-garde work, unknown, magical, esoteric, which had its roots in psychedelia, in the common dissonances of ten-tone music and two, in the development of more bites. rock and in Celtic folklore. That first record, however, had not yet found a real successor: Leone meanwhile kept the band alive for several years, playing live and releasing live albums or archive material, but we had to wait until 2023 to be able to really. listen to the new song of Balletto Di Bronzo.
“Lemures”, therefore, comes half a century after its predecessor and is a work of disarmament purity, sincere enough to be. stupid. Gianni Leone has composed an album that is released today, but which seems to have been written in 1973: there is no agreement on the passage of time, everything is like in the story of the Grimm Brothers, in which the magic castle remains suspended. in time because of a spell from an evil fairy and then, when this is finally broken, everything starts flowing again as if nothing had happened.
And this is where we find ourselves at a crossroads, because, of course, the seventies, how wonderful… But at the same time half a century has passed and progressive music, as its name suggests, has continued, collided with the eighties, was reborn. in the nineties, it was mixed with a thousand types (mostly metal) and today it has a thousand results. “Lemures”, on the other hand, lives in its past, not in sound, which is absolutely worthy of 2023, but precisely in structure: Gianni Leone still draws psychedelic themes with his keyboards, compensates for the absence of guitars and. inevitable efficiency, he creates excellent sound support from Ivano Salvadori (bass) and Riccardo Spilli (drums), but everything, from the singing style, to the arrangements to the lyrics, seems to want to remind us of time and beauty. the old one.
Whether this is good or bad is left to the interpretation of listeners and readers. For our part, we place ourselves in the middle, appreciating the intellectual credibility of a proposal that does not want to attract an audience different from its own and, at the same time, failing to see it as entirely appropriate for our times. Perhaps those who have already used “Ys” will only be able to enjoy this long-awaited return, but if you are among those who have never heard anything from this basic Italian band, the advice is to start directly from the masterpiece of 1972. he was so far ahead of being almost a stranger.
