Marco Machera
Dormiveglia

This time Machera has really outdone himself.
It's not enough for him to make a beautiful debut album.
Then a second one equally beautiful and much deeper.
Following that, an incredible masterpiece full of pathos and atmospheres.
In the midst, 4 albums with Echotest together with Julie Slick, all very good though definitely more prog-oriented.
No, he nicely comes out with “Dormiveglia” which is not just beautiful, not just splendid, not a masterpiece but an album that falls into the “sensational” category.
Bassist, session player, singer-songwriter, arranger, translator, and who knows what else, the golden boy of Italian pop-prog delivers a devastating work, in his fully established and recognizable style.
A pop that pays homage to progressive without ever touching it, a mix of many influences for a handful of songs that are hardly separable but form a whole of enormous value.
Once again, friends, more or less famous, are not lacking: Pat Mastellotto, Tony Levin, and Steve Janser above all, creating an experience that then leads you to write pieces like “Dearest Fool,” the title track, the wonderful single “Building Homes” or “Trains (They Might Have Been There),” the latter commemorating a friend and collaborator who passed away too soon with disturbing minimalism.
The new Steven Wilson, and let's not say SW wouldn't like to write a similar album today, MM stuns us with simplicity of writing and pure beauty.
In the end, from someone who wrote one of the most beautiful pop songs of the last decades (“Days of Summertime”) on their debut album, who could care less?