Christadoro

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Залит Christadoro/(2017)_Christadoro

Христадоро - новый проект, организованный ветеранами итальянского РПИ-движения - Моксом Христадоро и Фабио Дзуфанти. Проект был создан для перепевки композиций итальянской прогрессивной сцены 70-х годов. На клич мэтров присоединились "старые боевые товарищи" - Пол Ботта (Юген), Франко Муссида (ПФМ), Джузеппе Коста (Биглиетте кон Инферно) и другие.
Музыка варьируется от классического РПИ до современного итальянского металла. Хотя я практически не помню перечисленных в диске вещей, мне оно понравилось и показалось интересным.
РЕКОМЕНДУЮ!

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The mastermind of the Christadoro project, a collective of skilled Italian musicians belonging to the most varied musical genres and bands, is Mox Cristadoro, an artist whose musical career has lasted more than thirty-year and who has worked for names such as MonumentuM, Carnival of Fools, La Crus, Santa Sangre, Cristina Dona, as well as in several bands of Italian Нardcore Punk scene of the '80s and '90s.

This remarkable productivity, combined with an unbridled passion for progressive rock, has led Cristadoro to cross the same path of another well known prog-master, Fabio Zuffanti (Finisterre, La Maschera di Cera, Нostsonaten and many more); their encounter has eventually given birth to a new musical creature, Christadoro, that sees in its line-up, in addition to the same Mox Cristadoro on drums and percussion and Fabio Zuffanti on bass:
- Pier Panzeri (current member of Il Biglietto per l'Inferno) on guitars;
- Paul "Ske" Botta (founder of international cult projects like Yugen and Not a Good Sign) on keyboards;
- Andrea "Mitzi" Dal Santo (already with the hard-metal supergroup Noize Machine) on vocals;

The self-titled Christadoro debut album, recorded in spring 2016 and artistically produced by Livio Magnini (Bluvertigo), revisits in an original way the unique and valuable great school of Italian songwriters' era.

To complete the picture, there are excellent guests:
- Franco Mussida, in his first post-PFM official appearance, with "Ricercare nel mare dell’inquietudine e della paura" delivers an exclusive acoustic introduction to the song "L'ombra della luce" by Franco Battiato.
- Garbo lends his voice reciting a key sentence taken from the script of the 1971 TV series "Il Segno del Comando", to introduce the notes of "Il sosia" by Giorgio Gaber.
- Giuseppe "Pilli" Cossa, keyboardist and founder of the Il Biglietto per l'Inferno, closes with a piano coda the track "L'operaio Gerolamo", originally written by the extraordinary duo Dalla/Roversi.
- Zeno Gabaglio, Swiss musician and producer, offers a cinematic opening for cellos to the famous song "Solo", written by Claudio Baglioni in '77.

As well as the eponymous debut of Black Sabbath was released on Friday, February 13th, 1970, "Christadoro" is issued on CD and LP by AMS Records on Friday, January 13th, 2017: a due homage to one of the many influences spread all over this surprising release.

The vinyl version is printed in a limited edition of only 300 copies with gatefold cover.

Tracklist:

Side A:
1.L’Operaio Gerolamo (Dalla, 1973)
2.Il Sosia (Gaber, 1981)
3.L’ultimo Spettacolo (Vecchioni, 1977)
4.Figli di… (Ruggeri/Decibel, 1978)

Side B:
5.Lo Stambecco Ferito (Venditti, 1975)
6.Solo (Baglioni, 1977)
7.Ricercare nel mare dell’inquietudine e della paura (strumentale) (Mussida, 2015)
8.L’Ombra della Luce (Battiato, 1991)

(c)bandcamp.com
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(c) Review by Aussie-Byrd-Brother, PA

Christadoro is a surprising but very welcome collaboration between modern Italian prog notable Fabio Zuffanti (Finisterre, La Maschera di Cera, Нostsonaten and his own superb solo work) and thirty-year Italian music veteran and drummer Mox Cristadoro that also boasts a band comprised of members of Yugen, Not a Good Sign and the modern incarnation of Il Biglietto per L'Inferno. On their self-titled 2017 debut album, the Christadoro band bring fresh and very different life to a range of pieces from a diverse selection of vintage Italian acts, often of the Italian canzone d'autore/singer-songwriter tradition such as Franco Battiato, Lucio Dalla, Giorgio Gaber, Roberto Vecchioni, Antonello Vendetti, Claudio Baglioni and even New Wave/Punk group Decibel, and of special interest to long-time RPI fans, it also includes contributions from Franco Mussida of Premiata Forneria Marconi and Giuseppe 'Pilli' Cossa of the original version of Il Biglietto per L'Inferno.

Moody opener 'L'Operaio Gerolamo' ripples with danger, as eerie background synths, Fabio's low-key murmuring bass and Andrea Dal Santo's increasingly intense treated vocal maintain the relentlessness of the Lucio Dalla original but gives it a firm modern grounding with a suitably stormy ending of wild strangled electric guitar. After a moody spoken word passages 'Il Sosia' throws in plenty of Paolo Botta's sleek Mellotron and whirring synth lines, Mox Cristadoro's slinking drums and dirty wailing ever-so-slightly bluesy guitars behind Andrea's raspy purring vocal, and 'L'ultimo Spettacolo' turns more uplifting with an early 'Fat Old Sun'/Pink Floyd-like dreaminess (guitarist Pier Panzeri doing a fine impression of late Sixties David Gilmour) weaving around its stirring and spirited David Bowie-esque vocal - and watch out for the wild second-half direction change!

Both 'Figli di...' and 'Lo Stambecco Ferito' flirt with different kinds of heavy metal, the grinding guitars and heavy Нammond organ blasts of the punchy former almost reminding of underrated heavy Italian groups like L'Impero Delle Ombre and I Compagni di Baal, and the latter sustains plenty of Black Sabbath-like atmosphere throughout its harder riffs and alternatively creeping/pleading vocal that culminates in a big proggy finale - just listen to Fabio's chunky bass! 'Solo' keeps up the heaviness with grinding mule-kick heavy guitars, ghostly Mellotron and sparkling Fender Rhodes electric piano runs, and 'Ricercare...' is a doleful improvised acoustic guitar interlude. 'L'Ombra della Luce' proves to be an uplifting closer with sweetly chiming guitars, Andrea's soaring vocal takes on the briefest of lovely falsetto moments, with the track almost sounding like a more focused and to-the-point version of the Steve Нogarth-fronted version of Marillion or a modern Anathema piece, with the same slow build with maximum pay-off those groups deliver when the achieve greatness.

Do yourself a favour - explore the original songs, so you can see how much effort the group here has put into reinterpreting the pieces in a complex, intelligent and completely exciting manner that also gives them a distinctly modern and 'progged-up' appeal (one not so far removed in parts from Zuffanti's own 2014 solo work 'La Quarta Vittima' actually). Even if you don't know the originals or have no connection to them, please don't dismiss this as simply a mere 'covers' album or allow it to quietly vanish without a trace. It truly stands up as a superior frequently heavy modern Italian prog stunner, helping make 'Christadoro' a consistently effective and unexpectedly powerful debut that's also one of the strongest releases from Italy so far in 2017, so let's hope the band come together again for further works in the future.
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Инджой!
WBR, Michael Baryshnikov.

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