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...DI TERRA

Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso

 

Rock Progressivo Italiano

3.74 | 269 ratings

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Warthur
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2 stars I've always been rather suspicious of albums where prog bands try to play alongside orchestras, mainly because I think very, very few bands are able to tastefully incorporate the orchestra into their sound without diluting the impact of either band or orchestra - and that in worst-case scenarios the orchestra ends up overshadowing the band entirely.

To my ears, that's the case on ...di Terra, the second all-instrumental album from Banco del Mutuo Soccorso after Garofano Rosso, which I consider to be rather more successful. Rather than providing additional texture to the band's compositions, the orchestra all too often carry the tune entirely - and the tunes in question are markedly inferior to Banco's earlier work. Whilst Garofano Rosso was composed as a TV soundtrack, ...di Terra sounds like one - and a markedly inferior one at that. Simplistic, lifeless, and shallow, mistaking orchestral pomp for artistic merit, this album is on of Banco's most inessential works of the 1970s.

Warthur | 2/5 |

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