Best band Italian Song of the seventies secondo DeBaser.

❝ ...lamentations of guitars, wrongly suspected, softly sighed...

❝ Why do you want to disturb me if I might be dreaming of a winged journey on a wheel-less cart pulled by mistral horses, in the mistral... flying.

❝ releases one of the most beautiful prog albums ever on the national scene.

❝ An immortal album, considered by many to be the masterpiece of the '70s progressive scene, something no one will ever be able to match in ideas and creativity.

❝ It represents a unique sound document of great artistic value

❝ Area was a group that made music, Demetrio was also an instrument of the group besides being a singer who at that moment brought the word through the lyrics.

❝ No one gets hurt with the Squallor (not even them).

❝ "Everyone against everything"

❝ they are synonymous with recklessness, musical anomaly, they have neither head nor tail, yet they have style.

❝ "Dove...Quando... was a small personal mantra that I sang to myself. I felt like it was about me, even if I didn't exactly know why. Today I know. That serene princess was poetry in its first appearance. Singing it was my way of welcoming it."

❝ An album that, relying on already-tested tracks, acts as an elegant passe-partout (oooppss) towards the English and American markets with supremely competitive material, to which even Melody Maker and Billboard could do nothing but bow in front of what was and surely remains the crowning jewel of the first example of export rock Made in Italy.

❝ This characteristic, combined with an apparently inexhaustible compositional vein, leads me to think that this is their absolute masterpiece.

❝ A brilliant, dynamic, essential group, majestic, terrifying: a group always underestimated, always mistreated, always relegated to the fringes of the music scene.

❝ they were Dario Argento and Goblin: never was a collaboration more fitting than this, never had a film been so frightening, and most importantly, never had a soundtrack like this been heard (and of course, that of Deep Red).

❝ The 1975 soundtrack album, "Profondo Rosso", launched the Goblin (a young Roman band previously known as Oliver that had narrowly missed releasing an album under the guidance, no less, of Eddie Offord) to the top of the Italian charts with that uniquely particular, enigmatic, and fascinating single.

❝ A great album to discover and love.

❝ 1973 was for Osanna primarily the year of the unbeatable "Palepoli" but also the year of the economic disaster at the Be-In, a pop festival they organized in Naples.

❝ Rosso Rock, besides having the merit of being excellently played and recorded, has the quality of managing to condense in a little over forty minutes the entire sound of the group, no easy feat.

❝ Le Orme should be considered as one of the greatest Italian rock bands of all time.

❝ Are Le Orme no longer the fantastic trio Collage–Uomo Di Pezza–Felona e Sorona? Who cares!

❝ the four present themselves as a small orchestra in Piazza San Marco

❝ This, along with very few others, is one of those I consider the TRUE masterpieces of Italian progressive rock.

❝ In "Sirio 2222", Beat, Hard Rock, Psychedelia, Experimentation, and some shades of Symphonic Rock blend together.

❝ The wait has been long (let's hope we won't have to wait another 51 years!), but the final product has not disappointed expectations.

❝ Born in Vomero near Naples, in terms of originality and creativity, it has few equals.

❝ Listen. Stop.

❝ a perfect example of "high chart-high quality"

❝ Splendid. Monumental. Minimalist. Epic. As moving as few works can be.

❝ "Un Biglietto del Tram" is one of the highest examples of "political rock" ever produced in Italy.

❝ A great album that resembles nothing else published in our country. A masterpiece to be rediscovered.

❝ I didn't find this album either rhetorical or dated, it is true that many lyrics today appear a bit nostalgic [...] but alive, because they are historical, testifying to years of war and therefore of resistance.

❝ Not having this album in your discography is truly a musical shame.

❝ Thus presents the album by the New Trolls: "Searching For A Land", a double album, the first in the history of Italian rock.

❝ A million copies sold and a forceful entry into the history of Italian music

❝ An excellent debut for one of the most original formations in the Italian scene.

❝ "Abbiamo Tutti un Blues da Piangere" ("We All Have a Blues to Cry") is a pivotal moment for the group, for jazz-rock, and for Italian music as a whole.

❝ The title track, on the other hand, is introduced by a mysterious and spectral musical theme that suits the cover well and is a masterpiece that fully immerses you in the atmosphere of this work.

❝ Driven by their leader, the wild Hendrixian guitarist Bambi Fossati, the Genoese band Gleemen changed their name to Garybaldi and shifted towards a progressive rock with hard-blues hues, which distinctly set them apart from other Italian prog bands.

❝ “Astrolabio” is an ancient instrument literally capable of describing the stars and celestial bodies; ... what I describe here is exclusively to showcase the art of its creator.

❝ Listening is not recommended. It is absolutely obligatory!

❝ Often unjustly ignored, Nuova Idea represented one of the first true progressive groups in the history of "Italian Pop": born in 1969 under the name Plep, Nuova Idea took on their more famous name in 1970, beginning to produce numerous works under different names due to numerous contractual problems.

❝ "Clowns" is a complex and articulate album, well-played and original, and unlike the first two previous chapters, it is almost entirely free from outside influences if we exclude some glimpses of King Crimson's "Lizard" scattered here and there.

❝ A small treasure never found at the bottom of the sea, a drop in an ocean, a piece in a puzzle.

❝ A masterpiece to own.

❝ And from this situation comes "Atlantide," The Trip's most famous album, the one they are remembered for (even more than "Caronte" from the previous year).

❝ One of the most beautiful of those years, an example of high-level symphonic rock, on par with the great classics.

❝ Locanda delle Fate declared they wanted to aim, without tricks and gimmicks, at an ordinary pop-rock…

❝ Sasso confirms himself as a charismatic and expressive singer, an excellent performer of that romantic progressive that has always been the group’s trademark.

❝ Four tracks, a short half-hour (the shortest playing time in prog history), and a concept about Hegel.

❝ Whoever approaches this album with patience and a bit of optimism will discover a Masterpiece with a capital M.

❝ Recorded entirely live, it was made completely without keyboards, a typical prog element, to make room for a mad guitar reflecting the examples of UK-made blues and hard rock.

❝ “Furio’s way of playing is extraordinary” (Bill Bruford)

❝ An album that rightfully enters the history of Italian music.

❝ Nothing more to add on a work that is to be considered a cornerstone of Italian progressive, where no leading or weak pieces can be found, simply because there are neither, they are all masterpieces!

❝ A crescendo of melodies that occasionally give way to a mannered but pleasant voice, supported by a magnificent soundscape enhanced by a flute and a violin never out of place.

❝ An album that remains engraved, after listening to which you really feel like you’ve added something to your personality.

❝ "And in James' voice, in his harsh vocal tone, resounds an ancient curse, the tearing of wounds that find no relief, comfort, or understanding from a blind and distracted city, which turns its attention to the most vulgar and banal melodicism."

❝ Napoli Centrale is one of the best groups ever seen (and heard) in Italy.

❝ Not many are aware that in 1973, a Roman Progressive Rock Group made a Rock adaptation of Dante’s “Inferno”; this group is called Metamorfosi, centered around the two musicians Davide “Jimmy” Spitalieri (Composer, Voice, and Flute) and Enrico Olivieri (Composer and Keyboards).

❝ Inferno is their second album and was released in 1973 by the record label Vedette.

❝ Inferno, released the following year, is among the great classics of that distant era and should be in the discography of any enthusiast.

❝ "All that will remain of us is just a great bonfire..."

❝ The Genoese band Delirium is one of the historic names of the glorious Italian prog scene.

❝ A welcome, indeed, a very welcome return.

❝ Glacial aloofness, ethereal and enveloping.

❝ The last album of Antonella Ruggiero with Matia Bazar is somewhat the sum of their styles which they have traversed over fifteen splendid years of career.

❝ After the acceptable '70s, it is in the '80s that Matia Bazar give their best, until Ruggiero leaves the group in '89.

❝ From the very first chord, Zarathustra envelops you with a power that few Italian prog albums can boast.

❝ An album with epic, almost Wagnerian tones, where the technical skills of a truly extraordinary drummer (Giancarlo Golzi, future drummer of Matia Bazar) stand out.

❝ Barbarica (2013, Immaginifica) resumes the musical style of Zarathustra in a perhaps less inspired and organic manner, but the result is still of excellent quality: the album is well played, and the lyrics, even if they partly give the impression of being saturated with perhaps excessive rhetoric, exude poetry from every pore, with never trivial themes.

❝ The result is a magnetic and electrifying album, where one breathes the various faces of 18th-century Naples.

❝ The master surpasses himself.

❝ The magical adventure (and artistic mission) of the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare continues, which between 1972 and 1974, thanks to their participation in the Festival di Spoleto, gained national fame and set out to conquer the world with guitars, mandolins, and drums.

❝ This is a great album every Italian in their forties should own.

❝ What TV says is now law for everyone. Behold the product; you won’t regret it.

❝ The album rocks, great guitars, with plenty of glam ghosts and new wave shadows: in short, it’s a masterpiece of spaghetti rock... and more.

❝ “We are a bit like storytellers, our task is to tell stories, always hoping someone wants to listen to them”

❝ “Against those who speak of brotherhood, love, and freedom, and then finance wars and atrocities.”

❝ “This is not a live performance, this is a rock opera.”

❝ The album opens with the thrilling “Pizzica Minore,” a piece that would become one of the classics to be performed in concert both by B. and the other members of the group: Teresa de Sio's passionate voice dominates the song and alternates with Pippo Cerciello's "devilish" violin and the various wind instruments of Robert Fix, while the singer tells us about mystical festivals featuring devils and saints.

❝ Largo all'avanguardia, siete un pubblico di merda, applaudite per inerzia

❝ "make way for the avant-garde, you're a shit audience,"

❝ The Skiantos formed in 1977 in Bologna under the spiritual guidance of Roberto "Freak" Antoni.

❝ When they appeared on the scene in 1969, they caused quite a stir.

❝ it is the first one not to feature compositions by Lucio Battisti, who is also not present in the production; the music is signed by the group's own members.

❝ This is probably their most edgy album, the least accommodating and the most experimental.

❝ Anyway, in this album there really is a bit of their whole world,