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| Gan Eden-Il Giardino delle Deliz - Ritratto di Ballerina |
17.00EUR |
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| by Erik Neuteboom |
Date Added: Sunday 04 October, 2009 |
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GAN EDEN : GIARDINO DELLE DELIZIE – Ritratto Di Ballerina (****)
- The Italian band Gan Eden – Giardino Delle Delizie is the brainchild of musician and composer Angelo Santo Lombardi. The first CD entitled I Giorni Di Eurisko (2004) was released under his own name but the second Lavori In Corso (2007, a bestseller on the Italian Btf. label) and this new album entitled Ritratto Di Ballerina (2009) are presented as Gan Eden : Giardino Delle Delizie. On Ritratto Di Ballerina Angelo Santo Lombardi sings, plays the piano and all the keyboards and Gabriele Paganoni plays bass guitar, electric guitar and drums.
- I was very pleased with the lush vintage keyboard sound on Lavori In Corso but not every track succeeded to keep my attention. Listening to this new CD I notice that the five compositions (mainly symphonic rock but also some experimental interludes) sound more captivating and compelling. The focus is on the impressive keyboards skills of Angelo, this album is a Vintage Keyboard Heaven: a majestic church organ sound, sparkling and swinging Grand piano runs, lush Hammond organ, fat Minimoog flights and mighty choir-Mellotron eruptions. The interplay between those vintage keyboards and the guitar and dynamic rhythm-section is exciting with hints of fellow Dutchmen Trace. The atmospheres are often bombastic or contain fluent rhythms with propulsive guitar riffs or wah-wah guitar (Epilogi) and sumptuous keyboards. At some moments the music turns into more mellow like a virtuosic solo piece on the Grand piano in the short Impatsi Emotivi (a kind of “Emerson meets Rachmaninov”), in the epic Reazioni A Catena (a part with twanging electric guitar and powerful bass sound) and in the final (ghost) track Emozioni (a cover of a famous Italian singer Lucio Battisti) featuring acoustic guitar, emotional vocals and soaring classical orchestrations beautiful!
- If you like Classic Italian Prog with strong native vocals and lush vintage keyboards (like early Le Orme, Metamorfosi or Rustichelli & Bordini), this is an album to check out!
Rating:  [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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