DEDICATO A FRAZZ

I waited a long time before trying this one because the frontman of the group (Michele Zarrillo) is nowadays one of the most popular melodic italian pop songwriter, as well as the keyboardist Artegiani (and I can assure you that, living in Italy, I really can't stand the genre). And so it was a surprise and a pleasure to discover this gem, also knowing that Zarrillo was only 16 at the time. He plays guitar and sings in an incredible mature way, but what impresses you the most is the quality of the compositions, in a very, very personal hard prog vein. They had enthusiastic response after their partecipation in the main italian progressive festivals of the early '70, but they never made the charts and split soon after. Only in the '90 someone luckily remembered the there was this group with this strange name...

Note that the surrealistic cover was painted by Gordon Faggetter, a well known english born artist based in Rome.