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6th CD in studio for Conqueror 5 years after the last Stems. The band returns to the classical 5-piece lineup (with wind instruments), it is part of the line up Tino Nastasi on guitar (already in the 2nd and 3rd disc). "In Orbita" is a very troubled record in its writing, which started at the end of 2014 and continued until 2017, right at the beginning of the final recordings. Great classic Prog close to the classic sounds of Canterbury Sound. The band deals with the early stages of Juri Gagarin's life before the famous space mission, focusing more on the intimate aspect of his perceptions.

Two years spent for composing, arranging, recording and mixing “Canvas”,the last double cd by Venegoni & Co. A strong band, put together by guitar player and composer Venegoni, to perform a repertoire which is not strictly prog, jazz, fusion, folk or classic but, hopefully, the musical sum of all these influences. The Cd features many great musicians: Jason Rebello (keyboard player with Sting, Jeff Beck and Wayne Shorter) on acoustic piano, Enzo Zirilli and Federico Ariano on drums, Alessandro Maiorino, Mauro Battisti and Paolo Franchini on acoustic bass, Roberto Puggioni (Arti & Mestieri) on fretless bass, Piero Mortara (Arti & Mestieri) and Francesco Sappino on acoustic piano and accordion, Silvano Borgatta on keyboards, Diego Borotti on sax soprano and Sandro Esposito on percussions.

Even though they started out on Musea, EGOBAND is another Mellow Records Italian obscurity. What does that mean? It means it's hard to find band information. But there is enough to paint a picture. The first album's lineup consisted of Alessandro Accordino on vocals and keyboards,
Fabio Cioni on drums,
Massimo Fava on guitars, and Alfonso Capasso on bass. However, only Accordino and Capasso would be consistent with the group over its four-album career. This, along with the fact that there were no live efforts, leads to speculation that EGOBAND may have been more of a project than a band (a la Steely Dan). They went through interesting changes over their career. Starting out purely Neo, with heavy AOR tendencies, and ending up almost in Canterbury territory by the time they got to "Earth"…