FROM THE TREASURE BOX

Every daring musician should remain anxious and creative and Andrea Pavoni was no different.During the 90's he composed music, drawing influences from various sources that inspired him, coming up with the album ''Elektropuzzles'' (2000, Mellow Records), an amalgam of New Age and Electronic Music.Greenwall though remained his main priority, trying to establish a regular band for a second album.Pavoni & Greenwall survived through line-up changes and in 2005 they released the album ''From the Treasure Box'' on Rock Revelation.Half about of the album is performed by the normal band, the rest is performed by Pavoni along with guest musicians, including Presence's Sophya Baccini, who sung on three tracks.

The sound is on par with Greenwall's debut and this is well-performed Neo/Symphonic Prog with occasional jazzy and New Age flashes, quite mellow, carefully structured, without any killer track, but at the end the result is satisfying.Pavoni was never fond of impressive and virtuosic keyboard pyrotechnics and ''From the Treasure Box'' is another released, where melody comes first along with some very expressive Italian vocals by the two female singers, Sophya Baccini and Greenwall's regular singer Michela Botti (vocals are all in Italian).The arrangements are mostly based on the interesting piano and synth explorations of Pavoni, but they also offer some decent guitar parts, both electric and acoustic, having some jazzy or folky approach at moments.As aforementioned, not only the style of the new Greenwall release is comparable to their debut, but Pavoni came up with another very long and decent composition, the 26-min. ''Preludio...to the end'', an almost instrumental piece of Progressive Rock music with Pavoni's keyboards on the forefront.The strong influence of Classical Music, RICK WAKEMAN and E.L.P. is again more than obvious, Pavoni's performance is pretty acurate and flawless with bombastic synths, Fusion touches and grandiose piano themes, however the jazzy interludes and bass lines along with the plastic drum parts somewhat keep the track on ground instade of lifting it up.

Another decent album for all fans of keyboard-based Italian Prog.Smooth, secure but warm musicianship all the way.Recommended.