SEI LACRIME D'AMBRA

After their wonderful and acclaimed eponymous debut album, here is the new album by Italian symphonic prog band Notabene. It contains six compositions, three have a running time between 10 and 20 minutes. But this no problem because Notabene succeeds to keep my attention during the entire album: lots of fine shifting moods, wonderful, often howling guitar soli, some flashy synthesizer soli (like on La Revolution Bourgeoise Parte II) and warm Italian vocals with that typical Mediterenean dramatic undertone. I was also pleased by the delicate musical surprises like a jazzy piano part in Le Mistificazioni Dell'Ombra, mandolin and accordion in the titletrack and a break with percussion in Il Treno Di Obuda. Notabene their most pleasant element is the interplay between the guitar and keyboards, this remind me of another fine Italian band named Nuova Era like in the song La Revolution Bourgeoise (parte I). In my opinion Notabene has matured after their promising first album, I am sure that many progheads and symphomaniacs will be delighted about this new album!