LADY ROMA

To my surprise I notice that this brandnew Doracor album is not reviewed, I presume my Italian PA friend Andrea Cortese has other priorities, haha! But seriously, I am familiar with the Doracor sound since I got their CD entitled Antiche Impressioni (1999) as a promo from the prolific Italian progrock label Mellow Records when I worked for the Dutch progrock magazine Io Pages. In my review I wrote that I was very pleased with the great keyboard sound but that Doracor had to mature in their writing.

Almost 10 years and 4 albums later Doracor still deliver a wonderful keyboard sound and ... the band has matured in writing, this new CD contains more elaborate compositions, more dynamics and variety, from the long wah-wah drenched, often howling guitar solos and saxophone in Vento Dell'Est (Reprise) and Tramonto Sul Giardino Degli Aranci to the distinctive mandoline sound in Roma Dei Misteri and beautiful electric violinwork in Lungotevere Insonne. But the Doracor trademark is the lush keyboard sound by prime mover Corrado Sardella: fat synthesizers flights, sparkling piano, powerful Hammond waves, choir-Mellotron sound and majestic classical orchestrations, often in strong interplay with powerful guitar and a tight rhythm-section, simply beautiful!

In my opinion this is one of the best Doracor efforts, I hope more progheads will discover the typical, very melodic and harmonic Doracor sound, layered with great keyboards, a solid 3,5 stars!

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