THINGS TO LIVE!

In June last year Massimo brought together a band to play his debut solo album, 'A New Beginning', all the way through. That release consists of 15 tracks through which Massimo demonstrates his point of view on society by reflecting back on his own personal problems and life experiences, and it originally took more than 30 musicians to bring his dream to reality. That would not be possible for this event, so he used some of his Noage bandmates in singer Germana Noage (Aetherna), drummer Andres Gualco (Darker, ex-Tersivel) and bassist Michele Raspanti (Graal, S.O.S., ex-Tular, ex-Secret Rule), along with guitarists Roberto Falcinelli (who played on the debut) and Simone Cozzetto while Massimo of course provided keyboards.

I really enjoyed the album but given the depth of talent available on that (which included no less than 12 singers of different styles, both male and female), it was always going to be a hard ask to bring that to life, but overall this has gone very well indeed. At the core of this are some wonderfully melodic and dark songs with somewhat gothic overtones, with keyboards often to the forefront, accompanied with some delightful bass runs with the two guitarists stepping in and out of support and attack as the need arises. This sounds like a fully live album with little or no re- recording, and while the recording quality is excellent it does have that bootleg "seat of the pants" styles which both works and hinders with the vocals. For the most part Germana is a major asset with a nice range and takes control of what must have been quite a task in performing so many songs which were not originally written with her in mind. However, there is the odd moment when she is a little sharp or flat, and while that will be ignored by all listeners in the heat of the moment when at the performance it can be somewhat jarring when playing this album.

When the guitars interlink and blast then this is a lot of fun, and it seems somewhat unfair there were so few there to hear it, with the audience size obviously very small but it is good they have been honest about that. It is an enjoyable release, but I must confess for pure listening pleasure I will probably return to the original album.

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