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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2015 at 18:42
I think it is RPI (Rock Progressivo Inglese)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2015 at 23:29
Originally posted by Todd Todd wrote:

Originally posted by symphonicman symphonicman wrote:

I wonder if a band that is not from Italy, but from a country that speaks Italian like Switzerland makes an album with Italian lyrics. Is that Rock Progressivo Italiano?

Rumple Stiltze Comune is the closest case that I know of. We would have accepted them as RPI, but the influence was more clearly English.
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=6128

So if Rumple Stiltzken Comune would have had Italian lyrics, would they have been more difficult to place?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2015 at 00:43
Originally posted by symphonicman symphonicman wrote:

Originally posted by Todd Todd wrote:

Originally posted by symphonicman symphonicman wrote:

I wonder if a band that is not from Italy, but from a country that speaks Italian like Switzerland makes an album with Italian lyrics. Is that Rock Progressivo Italiano?

Rumple Stiltze Comune is the closest case that I know of. We would have accepted them as RPI, but the influence was more clearly English.
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=6128

So if Rumple Stiltzken Comune would have had Italian lyrics, they would have been more difficult to place?

No, if their music had more in common stylistically with Italian prog as opposed to English prog, they would have been more difficult to place, regardless of language. If the language were Italian also, they would have been RPI, in my book. For me, the music comes first. The language is definitely important--and I vastly prefer prog in its native language--but the music comes first.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2015 at 00:57
Originally posted by Imperial Zeppelin Imperial Zeppelin wrote:

I think it is RPI (Rock Progressivo Inglese)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2015 at 05:26
Originally posted by Todd Todd wrote:

Originally posted by symphonicman symphonicman wrote:

Originally posted by Todd Todd wrote:

Originally posted by symphonicman symphonicman wrote:

I wonder if a band that is not from Italy, but from a country that speaks Italian like Switzerland makes an album with Italian lyrics. Is that Rock Progressivo Italiano?

Rumple Stiltze Comune is the closest case that I know of. We would have accepted them as RPI, but the influence was more clearly English.
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=6128

So if Rumple Stiltzken Comune would have had Italian lyrics, would they have been more difficult to place?
No, if their music had more in common stylistically with Italian prog as opposed to English prog, they would have been more difficult to place, regardless of language. If the language were Italian also, they would have been RPI, in my book. For me, the music comes first. The language is definitely important--and I vastly prefer prog in its native language--but the music comes first.

Thank you for a very good explanation. It's easy to think that the difference between Rock Progressivo Italiano and other Prog is just the language, even though it isn't. If I have understood everything correctly?
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