Historically speaking, "Charon " is all Indeed one of the first album of Progressive Italian in good company with " Concerto Grosso No. 1" of New Trolls, " Collage" of Orme, " In the beginning" of New Idea , " Man" of Hosanna and, if you will, with that wonderful story that was pop " Terra in Bocca" Giant of . " Charon " however, has a running more than the others.
While still attached to the 60 models, especially in the use of keyboards and through some reminiscence late psychedelic ("Little Jane " recalls such Pink Floyd's "Green Is The Colour " ), the second album Trip reserve some surprises extraordinary when compared to the date of publication, certifying its absolute value.
For starters, the volcanic opener "I ° Charon" - thought to be the same Sinnone one of the best things about the group - sounds like a real artistic statement: the Beat is over and began the final season of 'Underground Italian .
La leading-track infatti, non solo oltrepassa senza mezzi termini quella fase “ pre-politica del desiderio ” fatta di onirici arpeggi di chitarra elettrica e di testi intrisi di sognanti valori esistenziali, ma pone concretamente le basi di nuovo linguaggio inedito: un massiccio hard-blues che è tutto un inseguirsi di tastiere, mescolanze ritmiche, e selvaggi breaks sottolineati da chitarre saturate che volano su una grintosa base pulsante.
Inoltre, a differenza del Beat che cercava di distanziare acusticamente ogni singolo strumento, qui la notevole complessità del sound viene omogeneizzata da una produzione a dir poco magistrale che accorpa ogni possibile sonorità con rivoluzionari sistemi di filtraggio delle frequenze. Infine, le parti vocali non sono più orientate alla trasmissione di un messaggio o all’abbellimento del canto tramite gli interventi corali, ma assurgono a veri e propri strumenti orchestrali (es: “ Two brothers ”).
Certo, è innegabile che molte parti del disco si rifacciano ancora al rock britannico - in “ Two Brothers ” c’è un forte retrogusto di Led Zeppelin e Deep Purple , In "Little Jane " emerges overbearing soul blues Floyd and the Stones and in many guitar soloist is clear at the touch of Hendrix - and sung in English certainly does not contribute much to Italianize the product, though, there's also note that all the songs on "Charon " are original and then again, this is a step ahead of Beat covers the period .
A "personality new " then, which emerges in all its transgression especially in the song "The last hour " where an original blues structure in 3 / 4, develops organicity sound to be the envy of New Trolls Concerto Grosso between cuts in the Baroque taste, concrete noises and a very personal final Hendrix ian.
time to resume the main theme of the album in the hard and organic " Charon II," and he must remain silent for a moment to draw breath.
We just heard one of the best albums of Italian progressive ever published in the early '70s: solid, rhythmic, perfectly produced, innovative and confrontational, personal, incisivo, calibrato, complesso, strutturato e perfettamente eseguito.
“ Caronte “ è insomma la dimostrazione che, come dice il mio amico scrittore Gianni Lucini , l'arte è frutto di " osmosi progressive ", ma in questo caso c’è anche di più. I “ Trip ” non hanno soltanto operato una sintesi di stilemi pregressi , ma li hanno centrifugati al punto di astrarne uno stile del tutto nuovo e personale . Hanno iniettato nel suono degli anni sessanta dei codes so meaningful, not only to overcome the limits of their culture and their time, but were raised to advocates of a new dialectic of sound.
Certainly, the path to take to create a "new Italian prog" was long, but in this sense " Charon" was certainly an essential catalyst.
Later, Tour and Premiata were placed on another level, but consider that Trip Caronte released in 1971 and had never heard anything so extraordinary in Italy "prog ".
Some may say: "there were of the Orme Collage "that the Isle of Wight veterans had decided to" follow in "the sound of Emerson Lake & Palmer . right, but one thing is" to imitate "Another is" define .
I have Trip defined and advanced the groove of a generation that will remain faithful to the end and passing for at least another masterpiece: "Atlantis " 1972.
then, that others have had more success. ... well ... that's another story.
CARONTE E 'WAS HELD BY THE READERS OF CLASSIC ROCK DISC NUMBER ONE IN
WEIGHTED RANKING OF THE BEST ALBUM BETWEEN 1967 AND 1971.
THE TRIP - Discography 1970 - 1973:
1970 - THE TRIP
1971: CARONTE
1972: ATLANTIS
1973: CHANGE OF TIME
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