Diego Petrini "La materia del suono"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Rock, Fusion
Label: AMS
Format: CD,digital
Release date: June 20, 2025
Tracklist

L’ARMONIA DELLA NATURA

1. Come  in mare le onde (8:23) 

2. Alla deriva (6:51) 

3. Macchia verde (2:36) 

4. Immagini al tramonto (5:55) 

5. Etere (7:38) 

6. Sangue Freddo (4:17) 

SULL’ARTIFICIO DELL’UOMO

7. Fragole di Cinabro (4:01) 

8. Antropomorfa (3:37) 

9. Sublimazione (3:23) 

10. Mimesi (5:00) 

11. La Plastica (7:52) 

12. Ciò che Trascende (5:44) 

Total Time 65:17

Credits
Diego Petrini (Il Bacio della Medusa) -  drums, keyboards

   With

Eva Morelli (Il Bacio della Medusa) - flute, saxophone 

Giorgio Panico - fretless bass

Andrea Morelli (Il Bacio della Medusa) - electric guitar

Claudio Ridolfi - accordion
Alvaro Fella (Jumbo) - vocals (12)

Description/Reviews:

With “La Materia del Suono” (The Matter of Sound), his first solo record, the multi-instrumentalist from Perugia allows his creativity to literally explode and flood into a mixture of music genres that is no other than the true spirit of progressive rock.

We are dealing with a cinematic concept album, the result of a compositional process that began years ago on the piano, an instrument that in fact dominates the stage from the first to the last note over a mainly jazz-rock and fusion rhythmic-melodic core. Countless contaminations are to be found throughout each track: classical, lyrical, ethnic, folk, and rock music, with several Moog and Mellotron performances that pay tribute to the Scandinavian prog, while flute and saxophone – played by Eva Morelli from Il Bacio della Medusa – frequently evoke jazz-rock and 1970s progressive music.

The album is fully instrumental, with the exception of the closing “Ciò che trascende” (What Transcends) whose lyrics are sung by the legendary Jumbo’s unmistakable vocalist Alvaro Fella, and explicitly invite the listeners to be always themselves and to constantly ask existential and philosophical questions in an increasingly materialistic and cold world.

With “La Materia del Suono” Diego Petrini eventually manages to make his few guest musicians sound like an orchestra, and proves himself to be a quite unique musical talent!

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Il Bacio della Medusa "Imilla"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: AMS Records 
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: August 25, 2023
Tracklist

1. Un Visto Per la Bolivia (2:59)

2. Amburgo 1 Aprile 71 (5:05)

3. La Dolorida (6:11)

4. Zio Klaus (5:01)

5. Dentro Monika Qualcosa Non Va (5:30)

6. Ho Visto Gli Occhi Di Inti Virare A Nero (4:46)

7. Senior Service (5:37)

8. Lo Specchio Di Hans Ertl  (3:29)

9. Colt Cobra 38 Special (5:38)

Credits

Simone Cecchini - Vocals, Guitar, Kazoo and Backing Vocals

Diego Petrini - Drums, Percussion, Piano, Organ, Mellotron, Synth, Melodica and Typewriter

Eva Morelli - Flute, Alto Sax and Soprano Sax

Federico Caprai - Bass Guitar

Andrea Morelli - Electric and Steel Guitar

Mixing and mastering by Manuele Pesaresi at Dyne Engine Studio

Description/Reviews:

Imilla abandons the experimentation of the previous Seme* (2018) to return to the visceral and multifaceted rock that has marked the stylistic signature of much of the group’s production from its origins until today.

Imilla is a ‘contemporary‘ concept album, inspired by the figure of Monika Ertl (who died fifty years ago at the hands of the Bolivian security militia), whose name “Imilla” was given as a combatant with the Bolivian militia in the 1960s and 1970s. Born from a predominantly acoustic version, entirely created by frontman Simone Cecchini, once proposed to the rest of the band, thanks mainly to the arrangements by Diego Petrini, Imilla finally took on its current Progressive and Hard Rock guise, without however completely losing its initial Folk and Latin nature. 

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Il Bacio della Medusa "Seme*"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: AMS Records AMS293CD
Format: CD, digital, vinyl, cassette
Release date: June 15, 2018
Tracklist: 
1.Seme
2.La Sonda
3.5 e 1/4… Fuori dalla Finestra il Tempo è Dispari
4.Sveglia!!!
5.Animatronica Platonica
6.Sudamerica (Not on vinyl & cassette)
7.Uthopia… Il Non Luogo
8.Il Sentiero di Luce
9.Animaemotica

Line-up: 
Simone Cecchini: vocals, acustic guitar 6 & 12 strings
Diego Petrini: drums, piano, synth, mellotron
Federico Caprai: bass
Simone Brozzetti: electric guitar
Eva Morelli: flute, alto & soprano sax, piccolo

Description/Reviews: 

Contrary to what often happens in the vast progressive rock panorama, crowded by many prolific artists, Il Bacio della Medusa has always taken their right time to release a new album: this time six years have in fact passed from the previous “Deus Lo Vult”. Nothing to complain, however, when the wait is rewarded by the high quality of the result.
“Seme*” is no exception in this sense and, if the wind instrumensts played by Eva Morelli and Simone Cecchini’s voice represent elements of continuity with the past, everything else has been completely revolutionized. We are in fact facing the band’s most immediate and at the same time more varied record, a blend of hard, folk, jazz and classic rock, typical songwriter’s moments and even country and electronic music!
If it’s true that ‘prog’ means also evolution and mixing between musical genres, we are therefore in the presence of a daring album that, even if considerably deviating from the ‘classic prog’ coordinates, paradoxically represent the most progressive and original release in the entire career of the group.

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