QUELLA VECCHIA LOCANDA

Quella Vecchia Locanda is an important italian band of the seventies with that peculiar sound, an evocative reference to classical and baroque music. Rich instrumentation: flute, piccolo, piano, organ, mellotron, moog, electronic zither, spinet, acoustic and electric vionins (their trademark, wonderfully played by Donald Dax), bass, acoustic and electric guitars, 12 strings guitar, drums, percussions and frequency generator.

Their self titled debut album is a wonderful product of the year 1972. At the time they seemed to have a wide success, maily due to the great live shows as for example the Villa Pamphili Festival. It's trange thing such a band only managed to release two albums and then disappeared.

I do not think their first album is their best effort. It is excellent, indeed, but lacks sometimes in maturity, in my opinion. In particular you can hear many references to Jethro Tull that will be gone definitively in the second work, which seems really more original both in sound and music' structure.

By the way, their 1972 opus is not less exciting than that:

"Prologo" is a delightful opener and immidiately the listener is pleased by the fantastic violin. "Immagini Sfocate" is the most explosive and hardest track they ever recorded. All the lyrics's meaning is not what most people could imagine listening to their music: anguish, illusion, fear, tremor for existence.

Share this QUELLA VECCHIA LOCANDA review

Social review comments () BETA

---

---

Review related links

• Send comments to Andrea Cortese
• Report this review (#73736)
• Buy QUELLA VECCHIA LOCANDA music online with PA partners
• Show all QUELLA VECCHIA LOCANDA MP3/Stream
• Go to QUELLA VECCHIA LOCANDA page for videos, full discography with ratings, reviews and much more
• Go to Quella Vecchia Locanda page for more details, where to buy and ratings/reviews
• Search the Forum for QUELLA VECCHIA LOCANDA related discussions