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Barock Project - {Detachment}

Label -Artalia
Reviewed by:

Max

Genre:
(Prog Rock)
Country:
Italy
Length:
74:59
Release Date:
March - 20 - 2017
Band Members: Luca Zabbini / lead vocals, keyboards, guitars (electric, acoustic & 12-string), mixing & mastering Marco Mazzuoccolo / electric guitar
  Francesco Caliendo / bass Eric Ombelli / drums, percussion
  Alex Mari / vocals Ludovica Zanasi / vocals
  Peter Jones / vocals (6,8)
Track Listing: 1.)- Driving Rain (1:02)
9.)- Rescue Me (4:55)
  2.)- Promises (5:05)
10.)- Twenty Years (6:06)
  3.)- Happy to See You (7:37) 11.)- Waiting (5:43)
  4.)- One Day (7:23)
12.)-A New Tomorrow (7:39)
  5.)-Secret Therapy (5:37) 13.) - Spies (7:23)
  6.)- Broken (9:10)  
  7.)-Old Ghosts (4:07)  
  8.)- Alone (3:14)  

Review:

Great expectations for the release of Detachment, fifth and new work of Barock Project, published two years away from Skyline and sees the band remained "orphaned" by Luca Pancaldi voice and, at the same time, the debut in the hall d 'engraving bassist Francesco Caliendo.***

The pianist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Luca Zabbini, soul of the Emilian group, now also plays the role of a singer with more than encouraging results.***

Having completed the premise, I want to emphasize that this new work marks a further step in the BP discography, a process that shows that he is still in positive and proactive evolution.*** Rhythm and thick lines, progressive acceleration, brush dreamy piano and keyboards, romantic melodies, arrangements taken care of but not redundant, intense guitar rips; this and much more gives us the young Emilian quartet, able to move forward and reinvent themselves at each exit.***

Sound remains some concession to the past, scattered here and there, but in low and pleasing shape without encroaching on the dominant melancholy for a time long gone. In this regard (I know I repeat myself) I remain of the opinion that if Zabbini and partners will definitely prune the sound from these calls residues will gain not just their (already strong) stylistic.***

Provided the overall picture, I want to focus now on individual songs starting from Promises button, where the arsenal of keyboards and drumming arrembante Eric Ombelli are the authentic matadors; melody, harmony and rhythm are beautifully with each other and should be emphasized as well the good performance in the role of lead singer Luke Zabbini.*** The trend of soft, lilting Happy to See You, almost smell folk prog, record a melody line large and growing before a break of 'Hammond. Hence the master plan for a second half marked by a bully only guitar (Marco Mazzuoccolo).***

Continuing, the slight lines of One Day intertwine as, become symphonic and are characterized by clear references to the great names of the past (PFM .and Jetrho Tull) in an instrumental segment is barred; great, as usual, the floor of the embroidery work.***

A track chameleonic, from two sides, double-speed (Secret Therapy); the voice of Peter Jones (Tiger Moth Tales) to lead the pack in Broken, long episode opens with a remarkable score of the plan and that winds with an ascending arrangement up to a fascinating epilogue with six character strings.*** Rhythm in the foreground, counterpoints of the plan, a Spanish-style guitar in Old Ghosts; a hot and melancholic ballad masterfully conducted by the floor and still sung by an inspired Peter Jones (Alone).***

A track seemingly soft and able then to highlight the strength and the band roll (Rescue Me); with a dense arpeggio acoustics opens Twenty Years, a delicate ballad and toned suffused revived by a central rhythmic segment and tightened.***

Guided by an electronic approach, Waiting located in carrying out the usual spaces for multiple keys of Luca Zabbini and sudden rhythmic accelerations, real leaps forward.***

A sweet melody and persuasive, nostalgic, it is the supporting beam of A New Tomorrow; invigorated in the middle phase by a more articulated movement and rhythmic, and then by an overwhelming epilogue.***

Conclusion with Spies, the only passage of the disk that does not raise me irrepressible enthusiasm despite no lack surprise shots including a good jazzy improvisation.***

75 minutes of music, broken down by 13 tracks of which the first is a short and pleasant intro to plan; again an impressive music that amount, however, has the advantage of never slipping into boredom, keeping alive listening. It 'true that maybe not every single episode is crossed by vibrating the same voltage but, I repeat, Detachment is a very enjoyable album and cohesive, a new and interesting chapter for Barock Project.***

Max

 

 

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