Le Vele di Oniride "La quadratura del cerchio"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Lizard Records - LDV 022
Format: CD,digital
Release date: May 30, 2023
Tracklist

1. Sogni Infranti (7:37) 

2. L'Illusione dell'Oblio (5:09) 

3. Catarsi (7:35) 

4. Apologia di Reato (5:52) 

5. Isolazione (5:29) 

6. Madri di Niente, Figli di Nessuno (5:22) 

7. Miraggi Remoti (7:39) 

Total Time 44:43

Credits

Francesco Ronchi – lead vocals, backing vocals, additional lyrics

Nello De Leo – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, synth guitar, backing vocals, lyrics

Lorenzo Marani – electric bass

Jacopo Cenesi – drums

Cristiano Costa – keyboards, synthesizers, piano

Drums, bass, guitars and backing vocals were recorded by Dario Marchesi in the rehearsal room of the Santa Caterina Foundation (Imola).

Keyboards, synthesizers and piano were recorded by Cristiano Costa at his home studio.

The lead vocal was recorded by Francesco Ronchi at the Santa Caterina Foundation, the additional guitars on "Sogni Infranti" and "Catarsi" were instead recorded at The Folk Chamber studio.

Editing, Mixing and Mastering by Francesco Ronchi at The Folk Chamber studio.

Executive production of Open Mind – Lizard Records (all rights reserved).

Artistic production by Loris Furlan, Nello De Leo and Francesco Ronchi.

The album was composed by Nello De Leo and arranged by Le Vele di Oniride.

Artwork, graphic design and pictorial works are by Egidio Marullo

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Cormorano "Obliquizioni d’Autunno…prima che l’aquilone se ne voli via"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Locanda del Vento - LDV021
Format: CD,digital
Release date: March 2023
Tracklist

1. Obliquizione (4:44) 

2. Cormorano (4:23) 

3. Nuovi Colori (5:33) 

4. 25 Aprile (3:59) 

5. Asia (4:00) 

6. Festa Di Settembre (8:26) 

7. Il Rock Dei Sogni (3:57) 

8. Nei Tuoi Occhi (4:31) 

9. Disarmoritmo (4:21) 

10. Pugni Chiusi (3:02) 

Total Time 46:56

Credits

Gabriele Giovanardi - sax

Antonio Dondi - drums 

Raffaello Regoli - vocals

Francesco Boni - bass

Elia Filippini - keyboards 

Raffaele Marchetti - guitar

Arrangement and mixing by Raffaello Regoli 

Mastering by Raffaele Marchetti

Description/Reviews:

 Raffaello Regoli, already known in the Italian progressive environment for having been a friend and pupil of Demetrio Stratos, to whom he dedicated the musical review "Homage to Demetrio Stratos" for more than twenty years, in an organizational capacity, after the parenthesis with Runaway Totem returns with his original band to reproduce the typical transversal sound also revealed in the album "Giro tondo (giro) fuori scena" of 2000, with genuine, essential seventies connotations, including progressive, rock, jazz, rhytmn blues, with digressions also experimental and theatrical. The important vocality of Regoli, but above all with the strength of the collective, returns to pulsate the warm and biting groove of songs such as "Cormorano", "Nuovi colori", "25 Aprile", in which certain convergences with Area cannot be missing, maintaining however its own identity and immediacy, even when it comes to developing a rather original version of "Asia" by Francesco Guccini. And the more experimental component also creeps into the folds of enthralling songs, such as the introductory "Obliquizione", "Disarmoritmo", the ritualistic theatricality (sound poetry?) of "Festa di Settembre", an integral part of the musical visions of Cormorano, who don`t even spare the icing on the cake with the ending of "Clenched fists". A love that comes from afar and that still hasn`t exhausted its inspiration and expressive power.

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Sintonia Distorta "A piedi nudi sull'Arcobaleno"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Locanda del vento (Lizard Records) - LDV016
Format: CD, digital
Release date: February 25, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Solo un Sogno (...dimmi che ti basta) (9:55)
2. A piedi nudi sull'Arcobaleno (7:46)
3. Alibi (7:08)
4. Sabri (3:41)
5. La rivincita di Orfeo (9:52)
6. Madre Luna (7:40)

Total Time 46:02

Line-up: 
Simone Pesatori - Vocals
Fabio Tavazzi - Bass, Vocals
Giampiero Manenti - Keyboards, Vocals
Claudio Marchiori - Guitars
Giovanni Zeffiro - Drums, Vocals
Marco Miceli - Flute, Sax
    With
Roberto Tiranti
Luca Colombo
Paolo Viani
I musici cantori di Milano

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Trama "Oscure Movenze"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Locanda del Vento (Lizard Records) - LDV 014
Format: CD 
Release date: June 2018
Tracklist: 
1 Intro - Oblìo
2 Anche se per poco
3 Il sottile equilibrio
4 Il viaggio
   i Verso il sole
   ii Nell'acqua
   iii Contro il vento

Line-up: 
Annalisa Accorsi - vocals
Luca Scherani (Höstsonaten, Fabio Zuffanti, La Coscienza di Zeno) - keyboards
Gabriele Guidi Colombi (La Coscienza di Zeno) - bass
Paolo Gaggero - drums
Lorenzo Loria - guitars

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Il Sentiero Di Taus "Macrocosmosi"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Locanda del Vento LDV013 (Lizard Records)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: April 13, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Overture (4:24)
2. Decisione (3:55)
3. Era Moderna (5:56)
4. Genesi (5:27)
5. Sorridi (3:05)
6. Adamo (Parte Uno) (3:21)
7. Canis Ferox (4:48)
8. Al Jilwah (8:05)
9. Adamo (Parte Due) (3:50)

Total Time 42:51

Line-up: 
Gennaro Lucio Zinzi - Vocals, guitar, "funny instruments"
Tiziano Taccini - Guitar
Jesus - Bass
Claudio "Buddha" Buonfiglio - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

"Macrocosmosi" is a breathtaking concept, a sort of rock opera divided into nine tracks, characterized by swirling rhythmic changes on the hard-progressive side, with a surprising range of shades.
The mystical-religious theme, the dynamic rock evolutions, the traits and lyricism of mini-rock opera, can find similarities between"Macrosmosi" and "La Bibbia" of Il Rovescio della Medaglia, but certainly revitalized, for aesthetics and freshness, in version years 2000 (however eluding all the clichés of metal-prog, and this is the strength and originality of Il Sentiero di Taus"). (btf.it)

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Il Sentiero Di Taus "Macrocosmosi"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Locanda del Vento LDV013 (Lizard Records)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: April 13, 2018
Tracklist: 
1. Overture (4:24)
2. Decisione (3:55)
3. Era Moderna (5:56)
4. Genesi (5:27)
5. Sorridi (3:05)
6. Adamo (Parte Uno) (3:21)
7. Canis Ferox (4:48)
8. Al Jilwah (8:05)
9. Adamo (Parte Due) (3:50)

Total Time 42:51

Line-up: 
Gennaro Lucio Zinzi - Vocals, guitar, "funny instruments"
Tiziano Taccini - Guitar
Jesus - Bass
Claudio "Buddha" Buonfiglio - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

"Macrocosmosi" is a breathtaking concept, a sort of rock opera divided into nine tracks, characterized by swirling rhythmic changes on the hard-progressive side, with a surprising range of shades.
The mystical-religious theme, the dynamic rock evolutions, the traits and lyricism of mini-rock opera, can find similarities between"Macrosmosi" and "La Bibbia" of Il Rovescio della Medaglia, but certainly revitalized, for aesthetics and freshness, in version years 2000 (however eluding all the clichés of metal-prog, and this is the strength and originality of Il Sentiero di Taus"). (btf.it)

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Sintesi Del Viaggio Di Es "l Sole Alle Spalle"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Locanda Del Vento ‎(LDV012)
Format: CD
Release date: early December 2017
Tracklist: 
1 Intro: Noi
2 Segnali
3 Sabbia (Tra Le Mani)
4 Altra Idea
5 Ritornano Stanotte
6 L'altra Parte Buia
7 Il Patto Non Scritto
8 L'illusione
9 Il Sole Alle Spalle
10 Coda: Lei

Line-up: 
Valerio Roda (Sithonia) - bass
Marco Giovannini (Sithonia) - vocals
Sauro Musi (Sithonia) - guitar
Eleonora Montenegro - flute
Nicola Alberghini - drums
Maurizio Pezzoli - keyboards

Description/Reviews: 

“Il Sole alle Spalle” inherits the typical characteristics of records that have left their mark as “Spettacolo annullato”, “Hotel Brun” and “La Soluzione semplice”: typically Italian interpretation and melody, always appealing songs length, with the indispensable 15-minutes suite, the conclusive title track, which knows how to unfold in different images and moments, from the most symphonic and rocking to the most delicate breath of acoustic guitars, piano and flute.
Just the flute of Eleonora Montenegro becomes a distinctive element for the traits of greater lightness and sweetness, until folkish Celtic digressions  (there is also a tin whistle for the occasion).

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Sintonia Distorta "Frammenti d'incanto"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Locanda del vento (Lizard Records)
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 22, 2015
Tracklist: 
01. Anthemyiees 9.04
02. Il cantastorie  5.34
03. Menta e Fragole  5.22
04. Il suono dei falsi dei  6.07
05. Il canto della fenice  8.07
06. No need a show  6.11
07. Pioggia di vetro  6.58
08. I ponti di Budapest  6.25
09. Clochard  5.45
10. Il vento dei pensieri  8.20

Line-up: 
Simone Pesatori - Vocals
Simone Prestini - Guitar
Giampiero Manenti - Keyboards
Fabio Tavazzi - Bass
Matteo Sabbioni - Drums

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Posto Blocco 19 "Motivi di sempre"

Country: Italy
Sub Genre: Symphonic
Label: Locanda del Vento (Lizard Records)
Format: CD
Release date: November 2014
Tracklist: 

1. A Un Passo Dal Cielo (Suite 1) - 4:06
2. E La Musica Va - 5:12
3. All'alba Del Giorno Dopo - 6:48
4. Scandendo Il Tempo - 7:01
5. A Un Passo Dal Cielo (Suite 2) - 4:48
6. L'Ultima Acqua (Bonus Track, Master 2014) - 7:20

Line-up: 
Francesca Campagna - vocals
Massimo Casaro - bass
Graziano De Palma - keyboards
Raimondo Fantuzzi - guitars, vocals
Stefano Savi - percussion
Vittorio Savi - drums
   With

Bernardo Lanzetti - vocals (6)
Giancarlo Di Bella — keyboards (6)

Description/Reviews: 

The band is born in 1972 around the leader Raimondo Fantuzzi (guitar, vocal), but just with only a 45 rpm record dated 1981. Now the first official album "Motivi di Sempre": 6 tracks full of the magic of classic italian prog-rock sound, close to the textures of PFM and keyboards progressions of Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, with sweet melodies and pastoral moments. 

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CIVICO 23 "Siero Progressivo"

Country: Italy
Sub Genre: Retro Prog,
Label: Locanda del Vento (Lizard Records)
Release date: June, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. Umida Cenere                     6:06
2. Il Menestrello                      1:47
3. Il Cavaliere Illuso                 6:41
4. Urano                                 5:03
5. Paura Infinita                       6:38
6. I Sette Angeli                      7:28
7. Aureo                                 1:17
8. Delirio Ad Occhi Chiusi       8:35
9. L'Ultimo Grido Di Galeria  13:15
10. Rimane Il Mare                 2:38

Line-up: 
Massimo “Joe” Galatone - vocals
Daniel Parisi - lead guitar
Federico Cianfarra - rhythm guitar
Simone Mastrodonato - organ, piano, keyboards
Lorenzo Gaudino - bass
Francesco Cossio - drums
   With
Marco Bellotti - narration, mandolin, tambourine and wind (2), backing vocals (3-4), djambè (10)

Description/Reviews: 

A young Roman band clearly inspired by the Italian prog of the 70s (Il Biglietto per l'Inferno, Museo Rosenbach, and contemporary Il Bacio della Medusa) grafting great pathos and new energy.
The songs of the band become stories in music, epic sagas about minstrels, dragons, knights, pirates, interstellar travel, apocalyptic visions, dizziness flight and ghosts.
An intense and fascinating progressive hard-prog, with exciting riffs and solos, immersive atmospheres of seventies due to the vintage sound of keyboards 

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