DISORGANICORIGAMI

Italian duo, formed in 2008 by two veterans of modern Italian Prog: Keyboardist Alfio Costa, founding member of Prowlers and Tilion, and drummer Davide Guidoni, formerly of Gallant Farm, The Far Side and most notably Taproban and graphic designer of several artworks for prog albums.The two men resided in a farmhouse at the Viterbo Hills for about a week to compose the material of what was to be their debut album ''Disorganicorigami''.The recordings took place at two different studios between September 08' and March 09' and a deal with Mellow Records secured its release in 2009.

The aim of the duo was to free themselves from the borders of the more classic forms of Progressive Rock and come up with a work with no particular boundaries...except maybe from an instrumental point of view, as Costa handles all vintage and digital keyboards and Guidoni all the percussion and samplers on the album, which has limited contribution by other instruments by a few guests.The music is quite bombastic and extremely psychedelic at moments, creating acidic instrumental trips, which recall Electronic Kraut Rock, Experimental Rock, Classic Prog, Jazz and even Ethnic Music.Structurally the arrangements are rather loose, especially in the longer pieces, which sound quite improvised, the shorter ones being more cohesive and thus more competitive.So the listening actually consists of powerful and highly cinematic tracks with a tremendous grandieur to rather incosistent, long compositions with some intersting ideas as well as boring textures.Costa's armour is endless, including Mellotrons, organs, moog synthesizer as well as different modern keyboards and he is the main reason of the diversity of the sound, from old-styled Symphonic Rock to trippy, contemporary Electronic Music, supported by Guidoni's samplers.Some sax and violin parts add respectively a jazzy and Chamber atmosphere in the album.During the composing process of the album the duo was shocked, hearing the news about Richard Wright's death and they included a cover on ''A Saucerful of Secrets'', which sounds quite nice along the lines of the group with good changes between old-fashioned and digital keys.

Original and weird stuff by these Italians.''Disorganicorigami'' will be loved by all fans of more Avant- or Experimental Rock forms and keyboard freaks with a tendency towards atmospheric musicianship, but it will also be a hard listening for followers of more conservative prog material.Nevertheless, this is a recommended and very fresh album.