23 Şubat 2022 Çarşamba

Acqua Fragile / Acqua Fragile (1973)

 


Italy

Progressive Rock, Symphonic Prog

Perfect example of a group made up of skilled individuals (singer excluded) who are unable to put their skills to good use.

This album strongly influenced by the progressive from across the Channel is divided into a relatively listenable more "Italian" side A (in instrumentation and composition), and a B side full of Genesis-like garbage and crowned by the "Three Hands Man" ending, a kind of rhapsodic collage without rhyme or reason.
One of the most execrable creations of macaronic prog-rock.

Acqua Fragile will only have existed for two albums but will have left their mark in the world of Italian prog. Far from being a major band like PFM or Banco, Acqua Fragile having a singer with texts in English (with a voice very Peter Gabriel period Foxtrot) composed here an album where we find Gentle Giant and Genesis (Morning comes) as influence while knowing that they have their identity. A track like 'Three Hands Man' shows the band at their musical peak. There are also some nice folk sounds throughout the album which yes, make you think a bit of CSNY at times and drift into plagiarism on the other hand. A rather rare album these days but definitely worth hearing.

Members
Bernardo Lanzetti (vocals, guitar), Gino Campanini (guitar, vocals), Maurizio Mori (keyboards, vocals), Franz Dondi (bass), Piero Canavera (drums, acoustic guitar, vocals), Joe Vescovi (keyboards)

Track Listing

01 - Morning Comes 7:25
02 - Comic Strips 3:59
03 - Science Fiction Suite 5:57
04 - Song From a Picture 4:11
05 - Education Story 4:16
06 - Going Out 2:59
07 - Three Hands Man 8:06


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