At the end of the fifth minute everybody drops out for an "old Then guitars and keys join in with synth leading in the establishment of melodies while metal guitarĪnd piano hold up the middle ground. Voice reciting something in Italian as drums and bass establish quite a tight and polished musical bass over the nextĩ0 seconds. "Pandora (11:43) another instrumental in which a long spacey synth opening which is eventually joined by male As near to a perfect RPI song as there could be and a top three song for me. Great transition to a in the end of the fifth minute followed by some coolĭrumming and organ play. Nice instrumental section in the third and fourth minutes-very solid rhythm section and Corrado sounds much older, more mature on this one-and way moreĬlassic RPI in his style. "Così Come Sei" (8:21) sensitively picked steel-string guitar solos for the first minute before being joined by bassĪnd wavering pitched synth and then vocals. Turns soloing over the final two minutes. Machine gun bullet kickĭrum play makes me feel as if this is really not RPI but Heavy Prog or even Prog Metal. Takes a strange turn into a faster gear over which Hammond and synth take turns soloing. "March to Hell" (5:59) more heavily paced music, this one, and instrumental, is a little slower, which, to my ears,įeels more similar to the heavy palette of Neo Proggers PALLAS, TRANSATLANTIC, or PENDRAGON. But then things get inexplicably heavy/djenty again for the final wordless minute.
Minute, things back off and a nice potential-energy passage holds the forward motion as Corrado Grappegia tonesĭown his vocal a bit. This is very solid, very polished heavy rock/heavy prog. Guitar, synth and voice take turns leading. In the fourth minute things smooth out until at 3:45 a new theme shoots forward over which
Then a heavier, 1980s hairband-like sound paletteīurst upon the scene, exposing several somewhat familiar styles-including one that is heavily dominated by a "Il Giudizio Universale" (7:37) opens with 90 seconds of someone dialing through a radio that is playing, catchingĪll kinds of international flavors in both talk and music formats. Prog Metal, or even Neo Prog? Some of the sounds used here are quite dated (especially the keyboards).ġ. My question is: Am I listening to RPI? or is this really Heavy Prog, The debut album from these modern prog artists. The band has tried to reproduce a sound of the past in a modern key, trying to highlight the importance of music that is set aside today many times in favour of commerce. The objective of the group has been to create music with an harmonic and original sound leaving the schemes that most of the music today has, avoiding the trivial and the foreseeable. The stories therein weave between personal problems and fantasy stories inspired by the symbol of Pandora's box. It does not contain "simple songs," but, through accourate research and attention to detail, the group wanted to explore various expressions of progressive rock: from hard rock to medieval compositions, jazz and symphonic melodies. In 2008, the group registered their first CD entitled "Dramma di un Poeta Ubriaco " it contains original songs that represent the path of Pandora's project. In the same month Pandora welcomed the young, talented guitar player Christian Dimasi into its lineup. So begins the recent history of the band: in February 2008 after several concerts, Pandora signed their first recording contract with the record label Milanese AMS-BTF, specializing in the production and distribution of progressive rock. The band has done some acoustic concerts that were pretty successful, maintaining the desire for the group to continue. In the first years, these collaborations will not lead mainly positive results for the inconsistencies of the musical ideas, but the project of Pandora will live on. The band is open to cooperation with many musicians to ensure that their musical project reaches a good conclusion. They show the harmony of a group that combines the emergance of Beppe's experience, the musical culture and composition of Corrado, and the talent of Claudio. So, Pandora began as a group dedicated to the composition of progressive pieces - giving life first to large pieces that espouse fantasy and research sounds and melodies. At first, their main inspiration came from the progressive rock of the 1970s - they wrote their own music drawing from groups such as Genesis, Yes, P. "The band was born in September 2005, when Claudio Colombo (drummer) decided to start a musical project with keyboardists Beppe Colombo and Corrado Grappeggia.
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