DEI RICORDI, UN MUSEO

No need to have completed advanced musical studies to realize that we have something heavy here! Look at the names of the musicians present on this album, apart from the drummer who is not very well known (not everyone necessarily knows PANTHER & C.) the rest of the band has a track record and an aura that is respectable to say the least. Note that it is Luca SCHERANI who composed most of the melodies which are magnificently suited to the expressive power of Stefano Lupo GALIFI's voice. Marcella ARGANESE co-composed the title piece in three parts which still totals no less than twenty-seven minutes out of the forty-nine of this "Dei ricordi, un Museo", a conceptual album obviously.

It is remarkable to note that this "Dei ricordi, un Museo" (Memories, a museum) is the first solo album of Stefano Lupo GALIFI, singer of the legendary MUSEO ROSENBACH who published in 1973 the no less legendary "Zarathustra", the one of the greatest opuses of Italian progressive rock, all decades combined, almost half a century! Stefano has since returned to the stage and recording studios as singer of Il TEMPIO DELLE CLESSIDRE and the reformed MUSEO ROSENBACH. We can consider that our man wanted to take stock through music of everything he has experienced in fifty years of career, remarkable will and stubbornness on his part.

One of the last musical flashes of the year 2021 comes to us from ITALY, not too surprising some would say, as the transalpines have offered us quality releases for years and which for the most part age well.

The musical highlights of this album are the inaugural title "Cuore" (first part of the piece divided into three) with a magnificent instrumental introduction before Stefano lays down his slightly abrasive velvet voice worthy of the best Italian progressive rock (9/10) then the second part of the eponymous piece, more peaceful with beautiful symphonic nuances embellished with acoustic guitar (9/10) and finally the third phase of this famous "Dei ricordi, un Museo" divided into three, more classic in its conception, imbued with a brilliant "Italian" symphonism with layers of mellotron to die for, in short you understood it fans of progressive flights this is for you (9/10).

The remaining pieces are not to be condemned for all that, they are overall more songlike and therefore less able to satisfy our demanding ears of progmaniacs, I do not skip them while listening, rather an encouraging sign, they are therefore at least listenable without difficulty.