A Thousand Suns Mille Soleils (2013)

Gran Torino is a young italian band, originating from the Verona area. The foursome came to life just before the New Millenium, aiming at covering the classics from Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple. After a decade practising, Gran Torino felt it was time for composing its own music. "GranTorinoProg" (2011) features complex instrumental music, still melodic though. It was followed by "Fate Of A Thousand Worlds" (Musea, 2013). This second effort proves to be really exciting, displaying over-the-top Progressive rock, with influences ranging from Jethro Tull (Without flute) or Kansas (Without violin), to Liquid Tension Experiment.

"Land of a Thousand Trances" is the music of total loneliness. You listen to the album and realize how the scales of insubstantial hopes fall from your eyes. You are tete-a-tete with yourself and only gleams of the past are dancing on the walls. And while being in such a retirement you start sensing yourself which you are in reality. A double album "Land of a Thousand Trances" is not only a re-mastered special edition of the original album issued in 1994 but it represents a collection of unpublished compositions which can be found on the second disc. More than this, the concert versions of two most popular compositions "Heart of the Dunes" and "The Dreaming Room" are added to the first disc.