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What a beautiful piece! Before I listened to it, for some reason I sensed that I was in for a wonderful album with music full of life and memorable harmonies. This is another album that I would use as an example to prove that the definitive year of progressive rock is 1972. Italian music of the 70s is full of gems. They all have their originality even though the Italian progressive trend has many characteristic features, but the albums I like the most (and the ones I consider the best) are the ones that know how to leave out national influences and trends when necessary and not make the album a forgettable copy. Bands like RADM, Museo Rosenbach and Area are great examples of creativity and self-improvement. This homonym album contains pieces of vital beauty.

"Favola" is a chimerical opening that seems to have been taken out of a tale about love and green nature, and its brief duration gives way to what may be the best song on the album:

"Il Mattino". A 9-minute piece that starts peacefully with beautiful singing, but unexpectedly opens up to a beautiful sequence of interludes, cadences, plucks and multi-instruments of another level and another universe! All the instruments come together to create a classical and renaissance sound. It is necessary to say that the fusion of symphonic rock and classical music on this album is one of the best ever.

Here's an interesting conjecture: I think that half of this album ("Ognuno Sa" and "Padre") is probably heavily influenced by Argentine folk rock. There are segments that due to their chords and interpretation are inevitably comparable to bands like Manal, Vox Dei or Almendra.

"Lavoro In Città" returns to the 100% progressive sound, starting with darkly hopeful vocals and lyrics, like that hardened pessimist who despite his firm despair, deep down knows that somewhere there is light (the pessimistic person is precisely so because at some point he had a lot of hope that was soon devastated). When the voice leaves the field, a jazzy piano begins to play, feeding the song along with a bluesy guitar pluck. There is a lot of diversity in this song.

"Vertigine" finishes off the album with defeatist lyrics and melodies, with a warrior organ that fights to the end and percussion and bass that create a final battle atmosphere.

All the harmonies are beautiful and precise, the album is carried out with a lot of hierarchy and musical maturity, and the production achieves the vintage sound I love so much.

In and out of emotions, this is a well done work.