20.000 LEGHE SOTTO I MARI

Jules is back! Or rather, that of Walter Pini and his NUOVA ERA bandmates, the same ones as for the previous album, "Return to the Castle," in 2016, which generally disappointed me, probably because I expected too much and nothing beats an Italian band singing in their native language. My favorite tracks from that time were the instrumentals, which explains it.

The NUOVA ERA logo from 1988's "L'Ultimo Viaggio," that stylized script with dripping paint, is still present. Walter Pini's goal was undoubtedly to bring back to the fold the lost sheep who had lost sight of the transalpine band, thinking that NUOVA ERA was a thing of the past.

I've just dropped a phrase that will please the detractors of the Florentine band! Yes, NUOVA ERA's music is old-fashioned; yes, this work could have been released in the mid-seventies, or even the early eighties. Knowing the band's entire body of work, I once again place this album on a par with my previous favorite, "Io E Il Tempo."

At a time when the very (too) numerous PORCUPINE TREE offshoots (rehash would even be more appropriate) are deeply annoying me (isn't that right, Alain M), NUOVA ERA allows us to remain in a musical dream that no longer resonates much today (it was better before, as the saying goes). Each to their own, of course; I'm not forcing anyone to follow me twenty thousand leagues under the sea. Note that the second track, "Nautilus," listed as a "bonus track," is a composition by Walter Pini from his youth, when he was only 17, well before NUOVA ERA.

For those who want to immerse themselves in the glorious seventies (or even eighties) with the sound techniques we have in 2025.

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