Pholas Dactylus
Concerto Delle Menti

LA RECENSIONE

It's not a matter of taste.

Concerto Delle Menti is a small masterpiece that needs to be assimilated through a journey

not only of acoustic perception but also, and above all, of images.

Already from the cover we can glimpse what a surreal and dystopian journey is about to begin. The mollusk engages

in a cacophony of avant-garde experimental prog blended by the declamatory verb around which

allegories and symbolisms unfold, stimulating the listener's imagination as never before. Thus, takes shape a world

turned upside down, made of timeless, spaceless hypnotic images, in continuous mutation, driven by instrumental scores

that chase each other functionally. The suite (divided into two parts) is surprisingly diverse in its

undulating progression between commanding moments and others of a more symphonic nature, enriched by minimalist inserts, free jazz references,

and odd time signatures. There are also purely jazz digressions leading to chamber and experimental effects that

then give way to rhythmic forays, abrasive and distorted guitar work immersed in an orgiastic magma of fugues and counterpoints.

Undoubtedly, the work revolves around the visionary text excellently delivered (and not sung) which feeds off of an extraordinary instrumental contribution. A journey that is, above all, an existential torment that prolongs (through a more instrumental second part) until

the apocalyptic post-nuclear terminus where "that stone child" tells of the "fall of fallout and the white dust that plasters the eyes".

So, an extreme journey, merely hallucinatory or the result of an already sealed fate? With this doubt, through a psychedelic and hypnotic lullaby,

one reaches a crescendo of acid riffs towards the abrupt finale where the dreamlike vision suddenly darkens, leaving us

"like souls damned by the cosmos forever imprinted on the forehead of..."

Highly recommended "viewing"!!!!