OPERA PRIMA

This morning I played this record and decided to make a review for this site. To my huge surprise this duo was not included so I had a mission! Rustichelli & Bordini was a duo who made this wonderful album that turned out to be their swan song. The cover picture is very original: a nude and bald heavy weight man who tenderly holds a baby in his arms. To me this is a metaphor for the music, ranging from warm to bombastic.

1 - Nativita

This album starts with a swinging rhythm featuring inventive drums, a warm bass sound and lush keyboards with Hammond organ, Mellotron and piano. The climates alternate from mellow with soaring violin-Mellotron and classical inspired piano to swinging with lots of Hammond. The interplay between the keyboards is wonderful and the rhythm- section sounds great.

2 - Icaro

A mid-tempo song with splendid play on the Hammond (featuring a church organ like sound), a jazzy piano part and strong vocals with an emotional undertone.

3 - Dolce sorella

Again we can enjoy a wonderful lush keyboard sound delivering classical orchestrations, synthesizers and sparkling piano. The vocals sound melancholical and fit perfect to the bombastic atmosphere.

4 - Un cana

The first part contains beautiful classical piano, then a full symphonic climate, emphasized by synthesizers, Mellotron and piano along emotional vocals.

5 - E svegliarsi in un giorno

This track features many Hammond organ floods and strong vocals, it carries you away to progheaven !

6 - Cammellandia

First bombastic organ, fat synthesizers flights, then an ominous sounding violin- Mellotron and dynamic drums. The climate turns into bombastic with propulsive drums and a lush Hammond and Mellotron sound, gradually the Mellotron becomes more and more omnipresent and is blended with the Hammond and drums in an exciting way! In the end the atmosphere returns to mellow with tender piano and strange sounds.

THIS IS ANOTHER GEM FROM THE WONDERFUL SEVENTIES ITALIAN PROGROCK!!

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