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Mmmm, but look that Area was reintroducing already well-established jazz-rock patterns (Soft Machine?), and except for experimental tracks like Mirage, which are closer to early Battiato. But I think the merit of Area was to uniquely blend the East and Jazz in a way that, unfortunately or fortunately, did not have followers. On the other hand, take something like "Felona e Sorona," so dark and synthetic, it almost seems new-wave; or "Io sono nato libero" by Banco, they were really ahead of their time regarding eerie, abstract, "blue" postmodern atmospheres...

But why do you always bring up the Area, they are jazz-rock: I don't always feel like listening to such wankery. In true progressive, I believe that a triptych of bands like "Le Orme" (the least submissive to progressive, and my favorites), "PFM," "Banco del Mutuo Soccorso," few countries can boast it (yeah, okay, England...). America doesn’t even come close: I think that in progressive rock, Italy has been second only to England, and nowadays, Italy, in the progressive field, has surpassed England (just my very personal opinion).

Meurglys_III is right, there is no such thing as a dated sound; you just have to realize that time passes, but at the same time it doesn’t exist. Anyway, aside from ramblings, the album is a masterpiece; I might prefer "Per Un Amico" or "Chocolate Kings," but I certainly don’t turn my nose up at this. "...moog, a keyboard-based synthesizer system, at the time an alien object in Italy..." I wouldn’t say that at all; first of all, the minimoog is a synthesizer (not a system), monophonic, which condenses the salient effects of the modular moog (as big as the deli counter of a grocery store) into a "briefcase" with a keyboard. Then PFM had the moog in 1971, just like "Le Orme," which recorded "Uomo di pezza" (released in 1972), not to mention Franco Battiato, who had an army of VCS3 (a competing brand to Moog). If we dig into the Italian progressive underground of those years, we discover that many other bands were buying synthesizers during that period, and if we want to sum it all up, Italians in the progressive scene messed around with synthesizers more than other famous groups across the channel and the ocean. Sorry for the clarification, the review is 3.5.

Anyway, I wanted to give the movie a 4.

I'd give it a nice 4, because 5 thinking about other movies... Anyway, when you're in elementary school, this movie is a must (I'm not saying this to belittle or offend).

I need to listen to the album more carefully.

3.5-inch disk

Anyway, when someone has 3 octaves of vocal range to sing, issues with tonality no longer arise. Just imagine with 5 octaves (it seems outrageous to me too).

Freddie Mercury also had access to a full 3 octaves. A monstrosity for a male human being.

Great review. The album is a masterpiece Assaje, with that hot chick's voice always at excellent levels. The first song and the last are perhaps the best tracks.