Greenwall - Il Petalo Del Fiore E Altre Storie (1999)
Greenwall - Il Petalo Del Fiore E Altre Storie (1999)
EAC | FLAC tracks +CUE +LOG +600 dpi Full Scans = 407 Mb | RAR 3% | RS
Genre: Progressive Rock | Label: Mellow Records | Catalog Number: MMP 362
EAC | FLAC tracks +CUE +LOG +600 dpi Full Scans = 407 Mb | RAR 3% | RS
Genre: Progressive Rock | Label: Mellow Records | Catalog Number: MMP 362
dprp.net:
Greenwall is an Italian project with a rather broad range of musical styles, but quite keyboard dominated <…> it's all very Seventies and subtle.
The first track is a bit Camelesque piece (Mirage era), quite uptempo and partly spoken/partly sung. Unfortunately the vocals are not always in tune. The saxophone in the second part is quite nice though. The next track, the first part of an half an hour+ long composition, opens with a Wakeman-like church organ piece. It goes on a bit too long though, but the interplay between the drums and keyboards later on is nice to hear. The piano/vocal part that follows is quite subtle, a bit in the Strangers on a Train vein and as a trick they include Mozart's "Figaro" theme in the piano melody. Unfortunately the (synthesised) piano is overdone in reverb/chorus effects which gives this "floating", almost out of tune sound. It is followed by an uptempo-part, a bit Pallas The Wedge, although the rapid Italian vocals crack this reference. Subsequently, an undiscovered piece of IQ's Tales from a Lush Attic follows, exactly the same organs, weird drumming etc.
A melancholic piano piece sets the scene for the second half, parts 3-6. The mandolin that starts gives images of a lonely day in rainy Venice. Too bad I don't speak Italian since the lyrics seem quite interesting, large stories with no rhyme. In the next section there is a lot of subtle percussion, rather well done, flowing into a powerful section, a bit early Genesis-like. Due to the rather jazzy bass loop and keyboard sounds, the next section sounds like Camel's The Snow Goose. This goes on for quite some time, before ending with a bang!, a more psychedelic part and something one could almost describe as classical music, slowly evolving into a Mike Oldfield composition (Killing Fields like). The end of the epic track is quite uplifting. All in all a very varied track with lots of interesting things going on. Too bad that the electric guitar is not featured more, or perhaps the saxophone of the first track, but otherwise music that deserves to be listened to in the evening, to relax to.
Nonne is a mostly piano track, a slow ballad. I had the impression I heard the opening before somewhere, but can't quite pinpoint it. A very athmospheric piece, but not much going on in general. La Stanze is more uptempo, almost touching on what could be called "Rock", but no guitar means no rock. Period. Well OK, there is some electric guitar (even what one could describe as a solo), but they manage to let even the guitar sound like a keyboard.
And then, surprise! An unlisted bonus track (4:45), seems like a different, slow-jazz version of the first track, with female vocals. A real improvement! Too bad they only use the female vocals on the last track.
The CD in general is something that deserves quiet listening, perhaps with candlelight and a glass of wine…
Tracks:
1. I Bimbi E Il Burrone (5:13)
2. Il Petalo Del Fiore Pt 1 - 2b (13:00)
3. Il Petalo Del Fiore Pt 3 - 6 (20:51)
4. Nonno (9:05)
5. Le Stanze (9:48)
6. Hidden Track: I Bimbi E Il Burrone - 1998 version (4:44)
Line-up:
- Andrea Pavoni / keyboards, piano, acoustic drums, lead and backing vocals, programming
- Fabio Nani / bass guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals
- Fabrizio Sagoni / acoustic and electric guitar
- Giorgia Facioni / female voice
- Cristiana D'Amico / sampled voice
- Tiziana Brasile / lead vocals on "I bimbi e il burrone" (new arrangement 1998)
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EAC extraction logfile from 20. March 2010, 12:15
Greenwall / Il Petalo Del Fiore E Altre Storie
Used drive : ASUS DRW-2014S1 Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
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Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
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Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d
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Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 5:13.25 | 0 | 23499
2 | 5:13.25 | 13:00.69 | 23500 | 82068
3 | 18:14.19 | 20:51.09 | 82069 | 175902
4 | 39:05.28 | 9:05.45 | 175903 | 216822
5 | 48:10.73 | 9:48.42 | 216823 | 260964
6 | 57:59.40 | 4:45.01 | 260965 | 282340
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