12.06.2008.
Alphataurus – Alphataurus (1973) (@256)
(Review from vintageprog.com, progreviews.com)
Alphataurus, just like their comtemporary 'sister' 70s Italian bands, successfully mix the heavy parts with the soft melodic passages, with a exquisite contrasting strong voice. The keyboards are superb and their long thematic developments alone would merit an interest in their albums.
Their debut contains three nine-minute-plus tracks, all featuring long instrumental sections that typically are based around a repeating riff, with lead instruments concentrating more on atmosphere than melody. Tracks like "Peccato D'Orgoglio" and "Ombra Muta" are both quite complex pieces with atmospheric vocal-parts and energetic instrumental parts. There's a lot of excellent organ and tasteful synths here. "La Menta Vola" and the instrumental "Croma" are more symphonic sounding with great atmosphere.
The odd song out is "Dopo l'Uragano", which for the most part is a straight blues song, reminiscent of early Led Zeppelin. This song is broken up with a strange break in the middle consisting of one riff played four times with a guitar lead, and a second riff played five times with a piano lead.
Line-up :
- Michele Bavaro / vocals
- Alfonso Olive / bass
- Pietro Pellegrini / keyboards
- Giorgio Santanderea / drums
- Guido Wasserman / guitar
Track List :
01. Peccato D'Orgoglio - 12:25
02. Dopo L'Uragano - 5:05
03. Croma - 3:16
04. La Mente Vola - 9:20
05. Ombra Muta - 9:44
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