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After nearly two years of recording silence, but offset by a strong live activity (Controcanzonissima, Gualdo Pop, Piper Club, Festival of Vanguard Napoli) , the sextet Roman of "The old inn " recurs in the recording studio in January 1974 to produce what will be the last album of their career: "The time of joy . Compared to
debut album there are no more eccentric violinist Donald Lax, returned to the United States and Romualdo Colletta replaced for technical reasons. Arriving
Massimo Felice and Massimo Giorgi, the latter coming from the Portrait of Dorian Gray the future Goblin Claudio Simonetti .
but were still within the same record structure, it changes the label of the group that this time has a direct impact on RCA, as its subsidiary Help failure to financial troubles. Incidentally, "The time of joy" will be one of the last album produced by progressive U.S. multinational, is now much more interested to generate more salable to fusion and electronica. Compared with the first album
, do not change the inspiration to the great Baroque composers ( Corelli, Vivaldi and Bach ), the beautifully made and a marked taste for research into new sounds.
It 's very different but the general approach of sound.
Electricity creative and taste Hard-Prog of 1972, giving way greater orthodoxy and to a certain sobriety arrangements, found for example in ' no doubling on vocals latency and electric sound. A lack this, that puzzled many fans who judged the album cold and detached. In fact, on the one hand it is true that without the creative madness of Lax and enthusiasm of the early days, temperance songs stiffened. However - remember to Classic Rock keyboardist Massimo Roselli - who has also hired the RCA intervened heavily on the original matrices (by order of then director Michelini ) , distorting not just the original consecutio 's work.
Also, just so come nell' album omonimo , anche in questo caso le parti vocali non riuscirono ad amalgamarsi omogeneamente all'impasto timbrico a causa di un missaggio a dir poco opinabile.
Musicalmente, nei primi due brani le citazioni classiche sono davvero ridondanti ( "A forma di…" ) e, perlomeno per i primi 10 minuti, il disco non riesce a decollare se non per la splendida intro di pianoforte di Massimo Roselli.
Senza essere malevoli quindi, potremmo tranquillamente asserire che tutta la potenza del disco si concentra nei quindici minuti del binomio " Il tempo della gioia " e " Un giorno un amico ". Solo in quell'arco di tempo infatti, la band viaggia in full swing and will really begin to wonder why the passion has not been extended to the entire album.
The title track for example, is wonderful: a fascinating mixture of classical and contemporary sounds where baroque and modern blend easily into a narrative that includes deadlifts polyrhythmic, calculated inharmonies and fragments voice reminiscent at times as much blood Reverse of the Medal (eg The Bible). The sounds are varied and refined and is clearly perceptible feeling good group, nothing is out of place and just listen this track, the album is worth all .
" One day a friend " is played instead on more intimate topics, but with determination and ruthlessness a sign that the QVL would have much more to say.
Unfortunately, the prevalence of songs less restrictive and a bad record promotion, the album is penalized in terms of sales of that conflict, ultimately causing the dissolution of the final band.
In this regard, always tells Roselli :
" RCA experimented on us a new line of promotion: do nothing.
to promote them should think about the radio broadcast. [...] It would have been necessary at least go into specialized radio to promote our philosophy of music. "
and again, without much irony
" I read on some sites that QVL was dissolved by disagreements among its members, nothing further from the truth. The reason, in truth, it is more down to earth. We must thank the austerity period that nquel was adopted by the then government to save energy. The weekend was blocking traffic and engage local groups working less. It was, in effect, an economic problem . "
In any case, it was clear that the absorption capacity and the composition of the audience had changed compared to that back in 1972 when the group inflamed audiences of the Festival of Villa Pamphili .
Perhaps even the concept of "joy " was inexorably changing.
OLD INN - Discography 1972 - 1974:
1972: OLD INN
1974: THE TIME OF JOY
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