Ujig "Delta"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Instrumental Jazz, Jazz-Rock, Fusion
Label: Luminol Records
Format: vinyl,digital
Release date: June 6, 2025
Tracklist

1. Deedoo (7:03) 

2. Make Make (7:06) 

3. All The Things It Is (7:01) 

4. Maybe (5:01) 

5. Zorua (7:24) 

6. Sema Beyaz (5:46) 

7. Prospettive (5:02) 

8. Sema Beyaz (5:46) 

Total Time 50:09 

Credits

Konstantin Kräutler - drums

Edoardo Maggioni - keys

Marco Leo - guitars

Cesare Pizzetti - bass

    With

Lorenzo Cimino - trumpet (1) 

Fabrizio Bosso - trumpet (3,6) 

Paola Folli - voice (6) 

Description/Reviews:

Today more than ever, Ujig stand out for a unique fusion of progressive jazz, electronic contaminations and bold improvisations. Each song is a sound journey that reflects the group's philosophy: breaking the mold, exploring new dimensions and challenging conventions. And above all, valorizing differences, the band claims: «The Delta is the symbol of difference in mathematics. Difference is the uniqueness of every human being, Difference and one's uniqueness are a wealth and a treasure that must be preserved and defended in a world that tends more and more towards homologation».

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Deedoo

Make Make   

All The Things It Is  

Zorua 

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Phil Selvini & The Mind Warp "T.E.T.R.U.S."

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Luminol Records 
Format: CD,vinyl,digital
Release date: May 16, 2025 (digital)
Tracklist

1. To Make Ends Meet (9:10) 

2. Reverie (Including ''Cloud Nine") (5:11) 

3. Riding In The Fog (8:17) 

4. The Last 48 Hours (7:46) 

5. The Mind Warp (26:18) 

Total Time 56:42

Credits

Phil Selvini: guitar, vocals, mellotron, effects

Leonardo Spampinato: guitar

Davide Sebartoli: keyboards

Francesco Scordo: bass

Leonardo Puglisi: drums

Description/Reviews:

Composer, author, singer, guitarist, dreamer Phil Selvini defines his artistic production as classically '70s progressive rock, with melancholic solutions and extensive use of organs, synths and mellotron, complicated structures and long-lasting songs. Influenced by King Crimson, Genesis, Yes, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, with the Mind Warp Phil Selvini has achieved the goal of being able to lead a collective capable of reproducing and rearranging his songs. This reality is represented as an entity, a container of emotions, the fusion and opposition of ideas, order and disorder, the most stormy chaos and the most solemn quiet, the mind alien to the body. 

Phil introduces the five tracks of T.E.T.R.U.S. as follows: "In To Make Ends Meet alienation and mass control, consumerism and empty conformism are the main themes. The rhythm is nervous, the atmosphere at times disturbing and dreamy at the same time, they evoke images of empty people in search of a leader, like sheep in need of a shepherd. Whoever dares to rebel against the rules is considered a madman by a conservative, greedy society populated by schizophrenic men. The introspective and melancholic Riding In The Fog recalls, from time to time, Pink Floyd with its ascending melodies and evocative passages here give shape to a sleepless and silent ghost that rides through the hills on a foggy night. The Last 48 Hours and the suite The Mind Warp are somehow connected, they tell the emotions that can be felt due to the loss of a loved one. Pain, mourning, delirium, threatening shadows and the inner feeling of cold that an empty house can transmit. But here the marble house can also be understood as a metaphor for the tomb, and the general atmosphere of these last two pieces is that of a touching and sincere elegy".

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Zhorhann "Ainsi Parlait Hominina"

Country: France
Genre(s): Instrumental Jazz-Rock/Metal
Label: Luminol Records 
Format: CD,digital
Release date: September 15, 2023
Tracklist

1. L'homme à la tête de gélule (09:28)

2. Les filleuls ancestraux - partie 1 (03:45)

3. Intro - (si si...) (04:03)

4. Le flamant rose (03:35)

5. Les filleuls ancestraux - partie 2 (05:52)

6. Egoduc (07:28)

7. Sweet acid (M'Z cover) (03:16)

8. Dieu sirote le sang (8:16) 

Total Time 45:43

Credits

Vincent Blandeau - Bass 

Heiva Arnal - Drums

Mathieu Torres (La Théorie des Cordes, M'Z)  - Guitar, composition, mastering

Mixing: Hugo Lemercier at the 'La Mercery' studio in Mirepoix (09)

Description/Reviews:

Genre tags include, but are not limited to, Rock in Opposition, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Metal and even Jazz Punk. The raw punk-y spirit reminds me a bit of the dearly missed fellow Frenchies of Taal, albeit decidedly less folky. Kind of like a less oriental, jazz based instrumental version of the mysterious Aussies of BAK. Equal parts deeply philosophical as the album title suggests, yet very much tongue-in-cheek musically, the trio concocted an exhilaratingly fun album and I can’t wait to witness this musical madness live.  (Dario at theprogspace.com)

Also read the review by Diego Pinheiro.com

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Davide Ronfetto "Enlightening Nights, Darkening Days"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Luminol Records
Format: digital
Release date: January 27, 2022
Tracklist

1. Night City Lights (5:06) 

2. Absent (6:17) 

3. Under The Rain (5:49) 

4. Four Notes Of Shame (10:03) 

5. Love Moan (7:34) 

6. The Thin Man (5:28) 

7. Witch (6:05) 

8. Hidden Glade (6:42) 

Total Time 53:04 

Credits

Davide Ronfetto - Vocals and bass guitar

   With

Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree, ORK) - Bass (3)

Heather Findlay (Ayreon, Odin Dragonfly) - Vocals (8)

Elisa Montaldo (Tempio Delle Clessidre) - Keyboards, Hammond, Synths and Mellotron

Edmondo Romano (Motus Laevus, PFM, New Trolls) - Sax (4)

Gabriele Tiezzi - Guitars

Omar Maiorano - Drums 

Music and lyrics: Davide Ronfetto

Instruments recordings: Stefano Angaramo and Simone Pollino

Vocal recordings, Mix and master: David Fulk at DSS Recording Studio

Artwork: Herwig Clayes

Description/Reviews:

This is a take on the form that does come with some similarities in style, mood and atmosphere to the ones explored by legendary band Porcupine Tree some 15 years back, with liberal amounts gentler atmospheric laden passages and some careful off kilter indie moments of the kind a band like Radiohead might take a deep dive into combined with driving, hard and occasionally aggressive guitar riff displays. Cosmic tangents and Mellotron-flavored landscapes and the occasional jazz-tinged undercurrent as much a part of the totality here as a fiery guitar presence. While this is an album that could be described in a lot of different manners, the easiest one and probably also the best one is to simply say that if you miss Porcupine Tree as they were just prior to 2010, this is an album that should fill a bit of that void in a good manner. (Olav M. Bjornsen at progressor.net's facebook)

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Initial Mass "Alluvium"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Progressive Hard Rock/Metal
Label: Luminol Records
Format: digital
Release date: January 13, 2023
Tracklist

1. Hadean's Fall (6:04) 

2. Trails Behind (2:42) 

3. Out Of The Mold (3:12) 

4. Horizon (3:54) 

5. Wake (6:27) 

6. Calm Wind (3:30) 

7. Believers (3:33) 

8. Memory Fade (4:02) 

9. Drifting (4:26) 

10. The Calling (3:54) 

11. A Crow In The Dark (5:26) 

12. Vacant Throne (5:07) 

13. In Stone Liz Granite (7:28) 

Total Time 59:45

Credits

Mark Baldwin: vocals, guitar 

Kevin Robertson: drums

Scott Smith: bass

   With

Liz Granite: vocals (2, 5, 13)

Produced by Initial Mass and Ron Sandoval 

Recorded and mixed by Ron Sandoval at Rev Studios

Mastering by Andrew Alekel

Description/Reviews:

Los Angeles-based heavy prog rock trio Initial Mass release their new album Alluvium with the Italian post-progressive label Luminol Records. 

The band’s fourth LP consists of 13 songs that explore strikingly diverse sonic territories across an evolving conceptual soundscape. Simply put, this is Initial Mass doing what they do best. The follow-up to 2019’s anthemic alt-rocker, Bending Light, manifests as some of the most intricate, calculated and cohesive compositions from the group thus far. 

Alluvium is a concept album, portraying the life of one individual as a metaphor for the rise and fall of humankind. The main character starts his journey, young and ambitious, excited for his chance to make his mark. Quickly, he becomes more intent on his desire to take what he wants from the world. As he grows more powerful, he refutes the warnings of nature’s conscience. Leaving a trail of destruction in his wake, he finds himself isolated in world that can no longer sustain life.

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M'Z "La Civilisation de la graine"

Country: France
Genre(s): Progressive Rock, Fusion
Label: Luminol Records 
Format: digital  
Release date: June 24, 2022
Tracklist

1. Des recits (7:13) 

2. Edifions des temples absurdes (6:24) 

3. Au confort de la memoire qui sublime (6:46) 

4. Assemblée populaire (6:52) 

5. La spiritualite marketing (7:24) 

6. Bureaucratie bemol (5:45) 

7. Enquete payenne (7:09) 

8. Ishtar dance (6:08) 

Total Time 53:41

Credits
Mathieu Torres 

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Notturno Concertante "Let Them Say"

Country: Italy
Genre(s): Instrumental Eclectic, Art Rock
Label: Luminol Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: May 29, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. Let Them Say (3:30)
2. Delicate Sabbath (5:25)
3. Dei Miei Sospiri (3:27)
4. Darkness I Became (2:05)
5. Fellow Travellers (4:23)
6. Le Magnifiche Sorti E Progressive (4:45)
7. So Far Out (2:37)
8. Lovers Second Leap (4:43)
9. Finis Terrae (4:23)
10. Handful Of Hopes (7:08)
11. Evidence Of Invisible (3:50)

Total time: 46:16

Line-up: 
Lucio Lazzaruolo - Guitar, keyboards
Raffaele Villanova - Guitar, sampling
Francesco Margherita - Drums, sampling
   with:
Simone Pizza - Drums
Luciano Aliperta  - Bass
Giuseppe D'Alessio - Bass
Nadia Khomoutova - Violin
Molly Joyce - Violin
Kaitlyn Raitz - Cello
Seto Nobuyuki - Clarinet

Description/Reviews: 

Eight years after Canzoni allo specchio, Lucio Lazzaruolo and Raffaele Villanova return with new album, which contains elements of the past and anticipates new musical horizons. The prog of the early days has been definitively archived, Let Them Say explores the possibilities of a crossover of various influences, from world music to electronics, between jazz and rock influences. 

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