The Spaghetti Epic 3 - The Great Silence
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The third volume of the Spaghetti
Epic series is, in my humble opinion, also its best. To that it
contributes, in big part, the inclusion of one of my favorites: Russian band
Little Tragedies, though Hungarian
Yesterdays and Italy’s NOT are also
contributing in good style to this three part story.
Musea Records has been involved for some time now with
Finnish Colossus Society in releasing a series of
conceptual, epic releases with tons of bands, both renowned and emerging, and
their combined efforts has been receiving high praise from the prog
community.
Spaghetti Epic 3 – The Great
Silence is dedicated to the movie by Sergio
Corbucci with the same name, and it’s the final (?) release of the
tributes to the fantastic Cowboy movies that have been filmed in Italy, and
that are best known as the Spaghetti Westerns.
With 3 bands playing an opus clocking around the 20 minute mark each one,
Little Tragedies open the album with a seventies oriented
track (as they all are) that, nevertheless, does not take an inch out of this
bands trademark: eastern neo-classic approach with complex and bombastic
keyboard driven musicality that is always epic in its core. In fact,
Little Tragedies has delivered a track that would perfectly
fit in any of the albums from their inexhaustible discography. A major start
for this collection indeed.
Hungarian Yesterdays
have recently released a very good album, and here they are displaying their
qualities: full but calmer symphonic progressive with some intrusions of a more
jazzy attitude and then the add of medieval folksy melodies to enrich the
package. Their style is somehow more quiet and introspective than that of LT,
so it does bring a change in direction to this album. The usage of analog
equipment has, nevertheless, changed a bit their usual sounding, but the
characteristics that have been praised about this band are kept and well in
display.
Italian NOT is perhaps
the less known band from the 3 that compose this release, and again, they
incorporate a change in direction and approach to this particular album. Their
music is a tad darker than the previous and it has that Italian touch that made
the sympho coming out from that country so much appreciated since the 70’s.
Overall this is a very good proposition and works both as a collector’s item
and an enjoyable release. The booklet, as always in this Muse/Colossus
collaboration, is very informative and complete. Check this out!
