Anabasi
Road are a young band from Reggio Emilia that came to life in 2009
with the aim of blending prog, hard rock and blues with a touch of
freshness and a great passion for vintage sounds. The name of the
band refers to the Ancient Greek and evokes a hard march uphill.
After a good live activity on the local scene, in 2014 they
self-released an interesting eponymous album with a line up featuring
Andrea Giberti (vocals, harmonica, keyboards), Massimiliano Braglia
(guitar, drums), Alessio Gambarelli (guitar), Riccardo Vecchi (bass),
Luca Orlandini (keyboards, organ, piano) and Nicholas Corradini
(drums, guitar). Although they can't be considered the most original
band on the rich current Italian prog scene, Anabasi Road are a
talented bunch of musicians and on their debut album they showcase a
good potential. If you like bands such as Wicked Minds or Psycho
Praxis I'm sure you will appreciate this work as well.
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| Anabasi Road 2014 |
The
opener “Pleasure In Me” starts by nervous electric guitar riffs
and dark organ waves. The music and lyrics describe a haunting
presence and an insane, dangerous passion that rises like dust on the
road while a strange, silent feeling sets hope and time on fire. The
following “Clashing Stars” is a kind of wild prayer to the sky
for a new life and tells about a desperate, merciless need for
vendetta in an endless war where there's no room for respect and
pity.
Next
comes the disquieting “Dreaming For You” where the music and
lyrics describe a strange experience: a restless dream, a fall into a
windy grave, a lapse of reason with blind lies whirling inside your
mind... It leads to the long psychedelic blues “Say Man”, haunted
by the ghost of Jim Morrison.
“Guerra
Mondiale” (World War) is the only track sung in Italian on the
album and I think that it's a real pity that the band didn't exploit
more their native language. It begins by a delicate piano pattern,
then the music and lyrics describe the feelings of a soldier in a
dark, wet night before the battle... There's blood on the ground and
on the hearts, you can hear cries and shouts, marching men and bombs
falling all around... A great track!
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| album cover |
The
following “Maybe Tomorrow” is full of rebellious energy and
invites you to fight against the people who try to manipulate your
conscience and your mind. It leads to the long, dark “I Walk Alone”
that depicts in deep red colours a man possessed by a haunting vision
who looks at him through a shining glass. Filled with pain and rage,
with no hope nor God, now he walks toward his new dark Lord... The
bluesy “Requiem” concludes the album with no prayers, no cries
and no shouts but a great electric guitar solo.
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