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discografia grupo logos torrent downloads LOGOS. One of many highlights for me is the second track "Paesaggi di insonnia", which not only contains the already mentioned wonderful melody line, but is also characterized by the playing of saxophonist Federica Zoccatelli. This is immortal prog - simply beautiful. For me, this album is a masterpiece in many ways, because it touches, inspires, surprises and never gets boring. Every prog fan should get to know this album and enjoy this music. I am absolutely thrilled. As happened with some of my colleagues on Progarchives, I was contacted by Logos to review their last work, "Sadako E Le Mille Gru Di Carta". But, when I was contacted I was a bit busy, at the moment, preparing some other reviews planned before. So, it only now was possible for me to check and review this album. So, here they are my public apologies to the band. Though, I knew the band already through their previous studio work "L'Enigma Della Vita", which was actually one of the albums I was preparing to review. Actually, it was the object of my previous review here. Logos was formed in 1996 only by three people in a Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Le Orme and The Nice line up base, (bass, drums and keyboards). At the time, they played mainly songs of Le Orme, Premiata Forneria Marconi and Banco Dell Mutuo Soccorso. When a guitarist came in the band, they started to compose own songs and recorded their first album "Logos" in 1999. "Logos" and their second album "Asrava" were written with the same line up. But, their last two albums "L'Enigma Della Vita" in 2014 and this one were released after a long hiatus of time. During those years Logos had seen a lot of line up changes, but a pool of different experiences worked well towards the same project and vision. So, "Sadako E Le Mille Gru Di Carta" is the fourth studio album of Logos that was released in 2020. The line up on the album is Luca Zerman (lead vocals and keyboards), Claudio Antolini (keyboards), Fabio Gaspari (vocals, guitars, bass and mandolin) and Alessandro Perbellini (drums). The album had also the participation of Elisa Montaldo (vocals), Massimo Maoli (guitars), Federica Zoccatelli (saxophone) and Simone Chiampan (drums). "Sadako E Le Mille Gru Di Carta" is a conceptual album based on the events lived by a Japanese child, Sadako Sasaki, who survived to the Hiroshima's nuclear attack for 10 years at the age of 2. Sadako was luckier than the thousands of people who lost their lives in those interminable moments. However, she died ten years later of leukemia. But, during her years in the hospital, Sadako accomplished a feat that raised it as a symbol of peace. She made a thousand origami cranes to could make the wish of peace in the world. She became a symbol of the innocent victims of the nuclear war. Musically, we have six pieces with different references to the classic prog rock that had so many fortunes especially in the 70's, a decade of great experimentation and creativity. The album is a state of the art set of performances. This is rock progresivo Italiano at its best. The band was able to deliver a masterfully crafted keyboard work throughout the album supported by a solid and creative rhythm section. The keyboards provide majestic orchestrations, memorable solos and epic progressions too. The impressive, lush style recalls the great masters like Banco Dell Mutuo Soccorso, Le Orme and Genesis as well as Rick Wakeman, classical music and the symphonic rock in general. The vocals in Italian, a traditional characteristic of almost all Italian prog bands are great as well, rich in nuance, emotion and drama. The album begins with a short instrumental piece, "Origami In SOL". It opens with keyboards in evidence providing a powerful and intense opening. It sounds is prog, wide, emphatic and catchy, a mix between the past and present. It certainly pleases the admirers. "Paesaggi Di Insonnia" is an enjoyable and unpredictable piece with many moods. It's supported by a great rhythm in the same vein of Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso expressed in its instrumental moments. These are eleven minutes of elegant, dynamic and well arranged music. "Un Lieto Inquietarsi" is a lenghty track. Logos prefer to perform in long pieces. It's a great instrumental fugue and music for the mind to follow. This is quite an evil piece of music, at least the first half. The second half has a more optimistic feel. "Il Sarto" is a beautiful ballad. It's full of emotion and sounds genuine and rich. This is a suite embellished by the voice of the guest Elisa Montaldo. It's a pastoral track, rich in the classic RPI sound of the 70's, but sounding modern. "Zaini Di Elio" is a returning to the first tracks. This isn't retro music. Logos doesn't sound like it's trying to emulate the sounds of the 70's as so many modern bands seem to do. Rather, they use those sounds as a template for modern prog music. "Sadako E Le mille Gru Di Carta" is the main piece, the real suite on the album. It concludes the album in a high way. These are almost twenty two minutes of great music with the sadness of the death with notes that bring to us the sound of the nostalgia and chills. Conclusion: "Sadako E Le Mille Gru Di Carta" is a great sucessor of Logos previous work "L'Enigma Della Vita". This is RPI at its best. If you have in mind the classic RPI, this is what you can expect from this album. This is a conceptual album based on a very moving true story. The album is skillfully played and produced. In some passages the keyboard sounds remind me of the old Rick Wakeman, with the usual little touch of Genesis influence which is a characteristic of the RPI sound, but the story is so dark that the music must be dramatic and intense too. This is a gentle and muscular, multifaceted, imaginative and profound progressive rock album. So, it's an album very recommended to all RPI lovers. Prog is my Ferrari. Jem Godfrey (Frost*) Personally, I consider the Italian progressive rock music is one of the finest around the world, mainly in its musical composition, from the quality of the musicians and their ability to use classical arrangements and work out their ideas in such a perfectionism and with the ability to fuse the emotional with the intellectual, blending many rhythm changes, with pure classical influences, progressive rock, hard rock, jazz, baroque, with the Mediterranean regional rhythms. There are many examples, especially in the 70's, but probably the best and most important of all are Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Le Orme and Area. However, besides them many others could be mentioned too. But, even in our days the best tradition of the Italian prog rock scene persists in many Italian bands. And one of the best examples that we can mention is really this band Logos. The brief history of Logos has began in 1996 with three musicians that already played for a long time, the keyboardist Luca Zerman, the bassist and guitarist Fabio Gaspari and the drummer Alessandro Perbellini. They started playing mainly Le Orme and Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso exploiting the potentialities of the three instruments formation, so typical of so many groups in the progressive rock scene in the 70's. Logos released their eponymous debut studio album in 1999 and their second 'Asrava' in 2001. With a considerably delayed, compared to the release of the two previous albuns, Logos reappeared again in the world of the prog rock scene with their third studio work. After a long period of silence, a total of thirteen years, the band finally released their album, titled 'L'Enigma Della Vita', playing a symphonic music, in the same line and with the same energy of the best Italian classic prog rock bands. Logos may be ranked into the symphonic progressive rock style. All compositions on 'L'Enigma Della Vita' are dominated by wonderful atmospheric keyboards creating a variety of amazing arrangements. The guitars come with wonderful solos in the background, where the bass guitar follows the rhythm with the drums. So, 'L'Enigma Della Vita' is the third studio album of Logos that was released in 2014. The line up on the album is Maoli Massimo (guitars), Luca Zerman (lead vocals, Hammond organ, Mellotron and synthesizer), Claudio Antolini (piano, keyboards and synthesizer) and Fabio Gaspari (bass and drums). The album had also the participation of Gianbattista Bodel (vocals), Simone Bistaffa (guitar), Alessandro Perbellini (drums) and Simone Chiampan (drums). 'L'Enigma Della Vita' contains eleven tracks, 76 minutes of pure emotion. It features everything we've come to love about Italian prog. All tracks have an excellent performance. I could not honestly choose a standout track. They all work well across the album. The attention to the details is really amazing and all the tracks have killer moments. The tracks work in an organic way, full of quality, mixing light and shade, moving from the pastoral to the powerful and back again. 'Antifona' is a short track that opens the album with a dramatic and powerful synthesizer work. 'Venivo Da Un Lungo Sonno' is a magical track trading deftly off one melodic line by another, successively. It highlights what was to come on the album. 'In Fuga' has a beautiful madrigal medieval melody. It manages to deliver a load of musical change ups with a distinct classical feel.