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[In Chains] 
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 07:34 |
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so, vote your favourite band
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Sono solo, solo il suono del mio passo
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 09:24 |
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Aufklarung (even though I've only heard one song by them... imagine that!)
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Sean Trane
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 09:33 |
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Q V L and Banco but I figured Banco needed no help.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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terramystic
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 09:34 |
Banco rules! 
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maani
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 09:38 |
Where on God's earth is Deus ex Machina?!
Peace.
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oliverstoned
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 09:43 |
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Picchio dal pozzo
Dedalus
Saint Just
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JCProg
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 10:51 |
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Maxophone is missing, so I voted for 'Other'.
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Xanadu
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 11:24 |
Im a totally newbie when it comes to italian progressive, anyone who know where I should begin?
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"Oh, yes, sitting-the great leveler. From the mightiest pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn't enjoy a good sit?"
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Eemu Ranta
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 11:25 |
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QVL, PFM, Banco, Celeste, Il Volo, Museo Rosenbach, Picchio dal Pozzo,
Deus Ex Machina
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Syzygy
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 16:23 |
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Stormy 6 were a great Italian RIO band, and I also love Picchio del Pazzo. Recently, I've also got into Corte De Miracoli, who are more in the classic Italian style of Banco, PFM, New Trolls etc.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Posted: March 30 2005 at 16:28 |
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Possessed
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Posted: April 08 2005 at 23:14 |
Il Balletto Di Bronzo 
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Posted: April 09 2005 at 09:08 |
 Syzygy wrote:
Stormy 6 were a great Italian RIO band, and I also love
Picchio del Pazzo. Recently, I've also got into Corte De Miracoli, who
are more in the classic Italian style of Banco, PFM, New Trolls
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Stormy Six are fantastic!! I've only got L'Apprendista at the moment but I think I'll be getting some more in the near future.
I adore the Italian scene though. So much good music from just one
country! How did it happen?! Good to see Metamorfosi on this poll - the
band that ELP ought to have sounded like!
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lucas
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Posted: April 09 2005 at 09:18 |
Le Orme, closely followed by Celeste.
Other great italian bands :
Pierrot lunaire (their first album, in the spirit of Celeste, their second one being more experimental)
Sensitiva immagine (in the line of Locanda delle fate)
Il paese dei balocchi (it could be labelled as classical music)
Capitolo 6 (very dramatic vocals with flute solos reminiscent of earlier Jethro Tull)
De de lind
A piedi nudi (the best metal-prog band IMHO)
Deus ex machina (already cited by Maani, outstanding jazz-fusion)
Cantina sociale (a new art-rock band, that is not really amazing but cool to listen to)
Il rovescio della medaglia irritates me a bit with their pompous music, at times a copy carbon of bach's music.
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Posted: April 09 2005 at 10:03 |
maani wrote:
Where on God's earth is Deus ex Machina?!
Peace.
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Locanda's my pick, without even having to think about it, but DEM would have been my second choice. And I may be nitpicking, but I don't think Metamorfosi really belongs in the first tier.
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DallasBryan
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Posted: April 09 2005 at 10:36 |
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The only ones I listen to are
Il Volo - Essere, o non essere!
Picchio dal Pozzo - same
Luciano Basso - Voci
Sensations Fix - Portable Madness
these are better to me, because you dont have to
listen around the vocals that I dont understand and
the english versions are pretty cheesy IMO.
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John Gargo
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Posted: April 09 2005 at 11:39 |
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Other - Goblin
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Posted: April 09 2005 at 17:25 |
PFM - best band to start with if you're new to Italian prog and want to be eased in - highly accessible, yet deeply satisfying prog
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Posted: April 09 2005 at 18:16 |
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I hva only heard a few of those, but if it's between them, my vote goes to AREA at the moment. Although some of Banco's stuff is fantastic too.
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Reed Lover
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Posted: April 09 2005 at 18:35 |
PFM,most definitely.Along with Locanda Del Fate closer to British prog than the others,though not as diverse as Banco,yet more consistent.
Deus Ex Machina are too challenging a listen for my ears.
Locanda only have 2 albums but remind me too much of PFM,but a good band nonetheless.
Of the rest Le Orme are ok and Area do nothing for me.
Italy is certainly a rich vein of Prog Rock,something I was completely unaware of until I joined this forum.
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