EVOREVOLUTION (WITH MARCO MINNEMANN)

EVOREVOLUTION is another great album released by the Italian bass player Alberto Rigoni which continues the story which began when Alberto was the bass player of the very talented band TWINSPIRITS!Now, he goes solo and this album proves the impressive progression made by this great musician in terms of musical vision,composition and skills!On this album Mr Rigoni is helped by the drummer extraordinaire Marco Minnemann,one of the most brilliant drummers of our days!The album is a display of wonderful musical ideas by a rich and innovative imagination of two highly skilled musicians! Bass is a wonderful instrument and Mr Rigoni shows here some unbelievable faces of his personality,some catchy ideas and a masterful playing!Definitely,there's a true alchemy between this 2 heavenly gifted musicians and this album proves that this kind of encounter provide some sensational music,full of great moments !Instrumental music has endless ways of expression and on this album there are plenty of magical soundscapes,ready to be discovered by good music lovers! Diverse compositions,from fusion to world music, and an invitation to many auditions for an album so rich and diverse in it's expression!Great digipak presentation too,strong 4 stars ,rounded to 4.5 in my humble opinion!

After the release of six albums between 2008 and 2017, Italian bassist and composer Alberto Rigoni (soloist, co-producer of Vivaldi Metal Project, founder of Bassists Alliance Project, ex Twinspirits) is back with 'EvoRevolution', an instrumental prog/rock/ambient concept album which also features drummer Marco Minnemann (The Artistocrats, Paul Gilbert). It "consists in a 33 minute long suite divided in six chapters, plus a much shorter second track. Minnemann: "Alberto approached me with the idea of adding drums to a fairly long piece composed mainly on the bass guitar. It goes in chapters and takes you on a trip through a variation of sensitive and dynamic soundscapes, leads through heavy rock song like parts, odd meter prog or jazz orientated sections and many more surprises."

I'm glad Marco liked it, as I have long been a fan of his drumming, and he certainly adds a great deal to this. But, it doesn't take away from the fact that this is a 33-minute long piece of music mostly composed and performed on a bass, or series of basses, and it comes across as rather tedious and boring. There is too much reverb and attack in the sound for it to be truly ambient, and not enough interest for it to be anything else. The only thing that got me through to the end of the album was knowing that once I had written about it then I would never have to listen to it again. I much prefer Vivaldi Metal Project to this, sorry