ZARATHUSTRA

I read quite many reviews here for this album and got hungry to listen to this album after several years again. This is supposed to be the Italian prog at its best and it has all the needed ingredients - right balanced sounds with mellotron, moog and guitars, great Italian singing, emotions, memorable melodies and enough of instrumental moments. The music is serious, symphonic and ambitious. I like massive keyboard textures and deep bass guitar. Let's also highlight the vocalist whose voice perfectly suits the RPI style of progressive rock, it can be mellow but also rock dynamically. Despite several listenings, the album didn't grow on me so much that I would give it 5 stars. It didn't disappoint me either, on the contrary - it proves the rule that one shouldn't quickly judge the one-album bands. Excellent addition to RPI fans but also any progressive rock fan of the 70's.