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UOMO DI PEZZA

Le Orme

 

Rock Progressivo Italiano

4.22 | 773 ratings

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jamesbaldwin
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4 stars Here's to you the third album by "Le Orme". After the spectacular debut on progressive rock with "Collage", Le Orme take with them synths and mellotron, and try to make a step forward.

"Una Dolcezza Nuova" (A New Sweetness), five and a half minutes, begins with a long instrumental piece on keyboards by Pagliuca, resembling the touches and fugues by Bach, but unlike "Collage", after two minutes the singing by Tagliapetra arrives to stand out above a classical piano (here we can feel the hand of Gian Piero Reverberi, author of the music, together with Tagliapetra). A slow and introvert song, it's in fact an acoustic ballad with a melancholic melody. Vote 7.5 / 8.

"Gioco di Bimba" (Female Child's Game), three minutes, has a music suitable for his title: nursery rhyme with an almost circus organ-like sound. It's the album hit. Le Orme have always had an eye on the commercial side. In fact it is almost a vaudeville pop song. Vote 7. "La Porta Chiusa" (The Closed Door), more than seven minutes, has an instrumental beginning to the keyboards almost space-rock that recalls various pieces of Collage but also in this case it's only an incipit, which soon leaves to the voice by Tagliapetra. It seems that "Uomo di Pezza", unlike Collage, doesn't "take off" with music. But finally the instrumental piece in the middle of the song brings back to the glories of Collage. When the voice of Tagliapetra reappears, it seems that of Greg Lake in "Peace" by King Crimson (Lp In The Wake of Poseidon). Then last half minute in instrumental tour de force. Great track. Vote 8+.

The short "Breve Immagine" (Brief Image) opens the second side on an organ carpet that soon explodes into a rock debtor of EL & P. Vote 7.5. "Figure di Cartone" (Figures of Cartoon) is a ballad where the sound of Pagliuca's synths, is what dominates on the background of the drums played by De Rossi and the acoustic guitars played by Tagliapetra. It is a resigned and minor piece. Vote 6,5/7. "Aspettando l'Alba" (Waiting for the Dawn) begins with the acoustic guitar and an indecisive rhythm, as long as the keyboards of Pagliuca arrive but this time they don't take off: Tagliapetra in this album has more parts sung, which more cage Pagliuca (despite for the first time he plays synths and mellotron), which can express itself only in the long final fading. Vote 7+.

Last song, "Alienazione" (Alienation), is a great instrumental track where finally Pagliuca can shows his skill in playing the typical instruments of prog. Song that sounds like a soundtrack, it concludes the album with a crescendo of quality. Vote 8,5.

"Uomdo di Pezza", on the whole, confirms the status of high-class prog group for Le Orme after the sensational "debut" in this genre. Compared to "Collage", "Uomo di Pezza" has less engaging parts, no particular steps forward, if anything more weak pieces, in fact it can't repeat, if not in a few parts, the really brilliant passages that Collage showed for more than half album making it a masterpiece. Overall, "Uomo di Pezza" is more than a good album, although not innovative and less brilliant than the previous one. A step of settling, waiting for new ideas, which will arrive on time with "Felona and Sorona".

Medium quality of the songs: 7,57. Vote album: 8+. Rating: Four Stars.

jamesbaldwin | 4/5 |

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