STORIA DI UN MINUTO

There is a reason why Italian Progressive Rock (Rock Progressivo Italiano) is an independent sub-genre of Progressive Rock and there is no such sub-genre as Spanish, French, or German Progressive Rock: back in the seventies most of the Rock bands (whether they were Progressive or not) used to sing in English, and Italy was the place where musicians started to defend their own language and a huge scene of Italian bands singing in Italian emerged, that was a very dared but original movement. Among several Italian Progressive Rock bands that include Le Orme, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Area and Il Balletto di Bronzo, Premiata Forneria Marconi was one of the pilar bands of the development of RPI.

PFM's debut album "Storia di un minuto" was an absolute unprecedented album: I'm not sure of what were the influences that these guys had but I wouldn't doubt to consider The Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, Yes, Procol Harum, King Crimson, and maybe, Gentle Giant, so, probably it is fair to say that British Rock was a strong influence for this record, but that doesn't mean the music on it hadn't originality. The eclectic mixture of the most exquisite instruments as flutes, violins, acoustic guitars, and organs with the powerful bass, drums, and electric guitars accompanying the original Italian lyrics made this record a very strong and historical one.

This album is a very changing buffet of emotions, the most joyful piece of the record (as its name implies) is "È festa" and makes a great contrast with the melancholic "Impressioni di settembre". "Grazie davvero" is a very symphonic ending while "Dove... Quando?" and "La carrozza di Hans" are very Hard Rock and sometimes jazzy. This album has it all. Later, PFM recorded two albums in English with translated versions of some of the songs this album contains, but for me, the best stuff comes in the mother tongue.

SONG RATING: Introduzione, 4 Impressioni di settembre, 5 È festa, 5 Dove... Quando? I, 5 Dove... Quando? II, 5 La carrozza di Hans, 5 Grazie davvero, 5

AVERAGE: 4.86

PERCENTAGE: 97.14

ALBUM RATING: 5 stars

I ranked this album #31 on my TOP 100 favorite Progressive Rock albums of all time.

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