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Just as PFM did with "Photos of ghosts" and "The world became the world", BMS tried to achieve followers in non-Italian speaking countries with English versions of their previous songs. I'm not at all a fan of re-recorded material, alternative versions or forced translations so to my taste, this album was absolutely unnecessary.

"L'albero del pane" is the only original song this album includes, all the rest are English versions of songs taken from both "Banco del Mutuo Soccorso" and "Io sono nato libero"; the songs from the third album were played almost the same as the original versions, the lyrics were the "innovation" but the songs taken from the debut album were filled with very annoying, pretentious and exaggerated musical improvisation that would have been nice for a live album but not for a re-recording. "Traccia II" was also re-recorded (I didn't know that the translation of an instrumental song could be a less interesting version of itself).

If you don't understand Italian lyrics and you are one of those people who "need" to understand them to enjoy the music you probably could appreciate this record more than I do, otherwise, give a listen to "L'albero del pane" and move on.

SONG RATING: Chorale, 3 L'albero del pane, 4 Metamorphosis (Metamorfosi), 3 Outside (R.I.P.), 3 Leave me alone (Non mi rompete), 3 Nothing is the same (Dopo, niente è più lo stesso), 3 Traccia II, 3

AVERAGE: 3.14

PERCENTAGE: 62.86

ALBUM RATING: 3 stars

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