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Silver Key is a progressive rock band from Milan whose roots date back to 1992. After many problems, a long hiatus, some line up changes and a period passed performing Marillion's covers, in 2012 they finally released a début album featuring only original compositions on the independent label Ma.Ra.Cash Records, "In The Land Of Dreams". The overall sound is in debt with bands such as Genesis and Marillion, of course, but Silver Key managed to add to their music a touch of originality and all their love for the works of writers as Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Robert William Chambers with excellent results. Incidentally, the band takes its name from a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft where the protagonist loses the magical key that enables him to enter an alternate dimension of dreams. This choice of name for the band symbolises the means by which they can fulfil their own long held dreams just as Lovecraft's character is able to visit his dreamed-of cities. The Screams Empire is their second studio album, released in 2015.

Kerygmatic Project was born in 1998, created by Samuele Tadini, Danilo Nobili and Marco Campagnolo, with the purpose of composing original music that recover in style and construction the great British progressive rock tradition of the seventies and eighties, renewed tradition with a new key able to embrace different styles, so as to constitute an original sound well recognizable. The Kerygmatic Project compositions are affected, in fact, from the contributions of various genres taken by rock, pop, jazz, fusion and classical music compositions, by proposing that, in fact, could hardly be categorized in a precise genre and that are the result a well-defined philosophy.

The Pink Floyd masterpiece reinterpreted by Italian band Ranestane.
Ranestrane have, with the minor exceptions produced an almost reverently authentic reproduction. It's in their own idiom of course, but recognisably taken directly from the original.
The vocals and instrumentation are superb. As always, with Ranestrane, production is crystal clear.

Sit down, make yourself comfortable. This is the story of an artistic journey, a 30-year parable. Listen. Immerse yourself. Eliminate all distractions; let the music speak to you, like it used to do. “DirtyThirty” is the culmination of a class struggle, of the utopian ideal of those who stubbornly cling to a model of the world that still embraces thought, wonder and the courage of art.
Syndone is a vision, a nine-album journey, the desire to make a mark in the world. Syndone is a shape-shifter, a band that’s changed its skin and its musicians without ever changing its soul: swimming against the tide, defying fashion and the decline (not only musical) of an era in which you can be successful only if it pleases the powers that be…

Over their last few albums, Syndone has risen to the upper echelon of current Italian progressive rock bands, presenting music that is firmly grounded in classics like Banco and PFM but has a modern edge. Mysoginia is another solid entry in their catalog, full of what makes this band so good.
Featuring great guest appearances (Viola Nocenzi, Vittorio De Scalzi, Gigi Venegoni) and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francesco Zago, here is a great conceptual album from Italy's contemporary progressive scene.
There is no shortage of great music coming out of Italy these days, and Mysoginia affirms that Syndone is one of the top bands.

Since their return to the business in 2010 with "Melapesante", the Italians of Syndone have not stopped producing albums, each one more interesting than the other. So it's with an undisguised pleasure that we are given to discover their work entitled "Kama Sutra".
If the title of this new album suggests that Syndone will deliver this time precious advice on the different ways to reach sexual pleasure, the subject is deeper than it seems, as Riccardo Ruggieri reveals: "For Syndone, (Kama Sutra) becomes a pretext to evoke the love between two people, the reality of today's prostitutes, the provocation, the images, the symbols, the role-playing and the people…

"Did Swans Ever See God?" is the fourth studio album by Italian act Submarine Silence, the side project of members of progressive band Moongarden. Absent from the scene since 2016, they return to delight us with an album that continues the long journey that began in 2001 with the homonymous "Submarine Silence".
The band finds itself once again wandering between the typical sounds of the Symphonic Progressive Rock of clear Anglo-Saxon matrix, confirming the predilection for the exploration and reinterpretation of musical scenarios created in the 70s by the great masters dear to all of us (Genesis, Yes , King Crimson, Steve Hackett, Anthony Phillips, Camel), supported by original Mellotron and hammond sounds, a la Tony Banks…

This is the third album by Sicilian art rockers Homunculus Res. It is a 2018 work that exquisitely mixed Canterbury style stylish technical and Italian singing. Although skillful meter is intertwined, with its own style with translucency as a warm heart, the wind instruments of flute, clarinet, oboe, horn etc are exchanged for guitar and vintage synth, and Melotron and charming female vocal are added. Including lyrics, the poetic deepening aiming for Canterbury spiritual increased. Hat off with precise content recorded by members close to 20 including Yao Paolo Botta.