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Alphataurus – Alphataurus (1973) (@256)
12 Jun 2008
(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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about 5 years ago
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about 3 years ago
Thanks for the Italian delights. Nice upgrade for my 128 kbps copies (and ogg, as icing on the cake ;) )
Do you, by any chance, have Errata Corrige albums? I didn’t find any chance to upgrade my 128k copy of Mappamondo so far, (though not all tracks are fine, still, there are a couple of exciting tunes), and all I found on the net seems to be coming from the same faulty source… my 192k Siegfried is fine for the time being… (btw, you may want to make overlooked Italian prog classics another series ;) )
about 3 years ago
> Do you, by any chance, have Errata Corrige albums?
Sorry, not yet.
about 3 years ago
Dear Sakalli, you are great. You are my idol!
You are doing a fantastic job. The blog is wonderful. Moreover, the Alphataurus album (just as everything I could hear from you) is a really good piece of music.
But let me ask you a couple of things. You have an incredible collection. When you rip music from the original albums, do you use “Exact Audio Copy”? Besides, concerning the music you post on your astonishing blog, have you ever converted from a lossy format to another, i. e. from Mp3 to Ogg or from Ogg to Mp3, or you always started from the originals or Wav / Flac / Ape lossless files?
I hope not to annoy you with my questions. Thank you in advance for your answers and for your hard work. Regards.
about 2 years ago
Sorry for the (very) late reply, I didn’t see your initial comment. Converting a lossy format to another lossy format isn’t a good idea in terms of collection, it will cause more quality loss, though not a problem if you’re doing it to listen in a portable player. EAC is a popular choice to make a digital copy, I prefer KAudioCreator.
about 2 years ago
Thanks Very Much for your works
about 8 months ago
Thank you sakalli.