CHRISTADORO
Rock Progressivo Italiano • Italy
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The CHRISTADORO project is a collective of skilled Italian musicians hailing from a varied background of musical genres and bands. Its founder is Mox Cristadoro, an artist of a thirty year musical career who has worked for names such as MonumentuM, Carnival of Fools, La Crus, Santa Sangre and Cristina Donà, as well as several bands of the Italian Hardcore Punk scene of the '80s and '90s.
A passion for progressive rock led Cristadoro to cross paths with modern Italian progressive music notable, FABIO ZUFFANTI (FINISTERRE, LA MASCHERA DI CERA, HÖSTSONATEN), with their encounter eventually producing a new musical project, Christadoro. In addition to the same Mox Cristadoro on drums/percussion and Fabio Zuffanti on bass, it boasts Pier Panzeri (current member of IL BIGLIETTO PER L'INFERNO) on guitars, Paulo `Ske' Botta (YUGEN, NOT A GOOD SIGN) on keyboards and Andrea `Mitzi' Dal Santo (metal group Noize Machine) on vocals, and the group set out to reinterpret an eclectic selection of Italian pop, folk and rock songs from a variety of mostly Seventies artists, especially those who frequently performed in the Italian canzone d'autore/singer-songwriter style.
The surprising and highly recommended self-titled `Christadoro' debut album was released on January 13th 2017, where it re-imagines those above-mentioned older songs in a variety of intense, heavy and sophisticated ways with a very modern sound, and along with the sublime musicianship and charismatic vocals of the core group, it also boasts contributions from Franco Mussida of PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI and Giuseppe `Pilli' Cossa (keyboardist and founder of IL BIGLIETTO PER L'INFERNO).
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Christadoro Rock Progressivo Italiano
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Moody opener `L'Operaio Gerolamo' ripples with danger, as eerie background synths, Fabio's low-key murmuring bass and Andrea Dal Santo's increasingly intense treated vocal maintain the relentlessness of the Lucio Dalla original but gives it a firm modern grounding with a suitably stormy ending of wild strangled electric guitar. After a moody spoken word passages `Il Sosia' throws in plenty of Paolo Botta's sleek Mellotron and whirring synth lines, Mox Cristadoro's slinking drums and dirty wailing ever-so-slightly bluesy guitars behind Andrea's raspy purring vocal, and `L'ultimo Spettacolo' turns more uplifting with an early `Fat Old Sun'/Pink Floyd-like dreaminess (guitarist Pier Panzeri doing a fine impression of late Sixties David Gilmour) weaving around its stirring and spirited David Bowie-esque vocal - and watch out for the wild second-half direction change!
Both `Figli di...' and `Lo Stambecco Ferito' flirt with different kinds of heavy metal, the grinding guitars and heavy Hammond organ blasts of the punchy former almost reminding of underrated heavy Italian groups like L'Impero Delle Ombre and I Compagni di Baal, and the latter sustains plenty of Black Sabbath-like atmosphere throughout its harder riffs and alternatively creeping/pleading vocal that culminates in a big proggy finale - just listen to Fabio's chunky bass! `Solo' keeps up the heaviness with grinding mule-kick heavy guitars, ghostly Mellotron and sparkling Fender Rhodes electric piano runs, and `Ricercare...' is a doleful improvised acoustic guitar interlude. `L'Ombra della Luce' proves to be an uplifting closer with sweetly chiming guitars, Andrea's soaring vocal takes on the briefest of lovely falsetto moments, with the track almost sounding like a more focused and to-the-point version of the Steve Hogarth-fronted version of Marillion or a modern Anathema piece, with the same slow build with maximum pay-off those groups deliver when the achieve greatness.
Do yourself a favour - explore the original songs, so you can see how much effort the group here has put into reinterpreting the pieces in a complex, intelligent and completely exciting manner that also gives them a distinctly modern and `progged-up' appeal (one not so far removed in parts from Zuffanti's own 2014 solo work `La Quarta Vittima' actually). Even if you don't know the originals or have no connection to them, please don't dismiss this as simply a mere `covers' album or allow it to quietly vanish without a trace. It truly stands up as a superior frequently heavy modern Italian prog stunner, helping make `Christadoro' a consistently effective and unexpectedly powerful debut that's also one of the strongest releases from Italy so far in 2017, so let's hope the band come together again for further works in the future.
Four stars.