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Museo Rosenbach

Musical Group
Forfans of italian progressive rock, vintage keyboards, and dense symphonic concept albums.
3 Reviews 7 Definitions 17 Charts
Progressive Rock

The Profile

Italian progressive rock band known for the 1973 concept album Zarathustra, whose cover controversy limited its initial exposure before it became a cult classic. The group later returned with Exit (2000), re-recorded Zarathustra Live in Studio (2012), and released Barbarica (2013).

Zarathustra is inspired by Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and features prominent Mellotron and keyboards with odd time signatures. The 1973 cover collage included Mussolini, fueling controversy and limited promotion. Drummer Giancarlo Golzi later played with Matia Bazar. The band reunited decades later; vocalist Stefano “Lupo” Galifi also sang with Il Tempio delle Clessidre, named after a section of the Zarathustra suite.

Reviews celebrate Zarathustra’s 20-minute suite, dense keyboards, and relentless tension, calling it a cult cornerstone of Italian prog. They recount the 1973 cover controversy, RAI boycott, and later rediscovery. The band’s 2000s return spans Exit, a live-in-studio Zarathustra, and Barbarica, which extends the classic style with contemporary themes.

Notable Quotes

❝ 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.
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