I never loved Forneria as much as other Italian bands in the prog scene, but it must be admitted that their debut album is truly a splendid work. "Storia di un Minuto" is an album with suspended, delicate atmospheres, in which it is pleasant to immerse oneself; it is extremely fascinating and represents one of the peaks of melodic sublimation in Italian "pop-rock-folk" music, with its substantial acoustic sections, the cornerstones of the album, painted like watercolors by an inspired Mussida, and a Padanian fog that sometimes clears into more dynamic and equally exhilarating electric sections. Then, like a true fantasist who enriches all the compositions with his touches of pure melodic class, the final stroke is always given by Mauro Pagani, the real "extra man" of PFM, on flute, violin, and piccollo. Even the absence of a true singer, a weak point in the subsequent albums before Lanzetti, here—with the delicate and fragile voices of Mussida and Pagani—becomes a strength in the delicate landscape presented in the album. It is Mussida and Pagani who dominate the composition and write the entire album together, while Premoli sprinkles immortal moog hits (who said "Impressioni di Settembre"?) and various keyboards. The masterpiece of the lot: "La carrozza di Hans," long acoustic reflections and reminiscences of early King Crimson (which Fripp had just nuclearized, by the way).
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