"The Piggy Bank" is a classic: perhaps the most beautiful of the Roman group, but also the one that owes the most to a certain English progressive (in the harder passages I find a bit of VDGG, in the more dreamy ones a bit of Genesis), and the fairy-tale and medieval themes further confirm this. Three masterpieces: the anti-war anthem of "R.I.P" (with a tear-jerking finale), the jazz-prog-psychedelic drift of "Metamorfosi," and their absolute most beautiful suite, "Il Giardino del Mago."
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