Wish come from Rome and their roots date back to 1992. After some
line up changes, many pauses and a long, painstaking work in their
own studio, in 2019 the band finally self released a debut album
entitled Stay Here My Friends with a line up featuring
Piergiorgio Franceschelli (vocals), Giorgio Simonetti (guitars, bass,
vocals), Salvatore Patti (keyboards) and Massimo Mercurio (drums).
According to their website, this is a conceptual work revolving
around the idea of friendship as a true bulwark to withstand the
bumps of our daily life while
the music is an interesting mix of classic rock and prog
mainly drawing from seventies atmospheres although with a personal,
modern touch. The cover is based on an original painting by the
band’s keyboardist Salvatore Patti and tries to give an idea of the
musical content...
The dreamy opener “Like A Yes” sets the atmosphere. It’s a
beautiful instrumental piece that sounds like a kind of tribute to
the halcyon days of prog... The following “Deep Wish” is darker
and deals with regrets and memories you can’t erase, words echoing
and turning in circles that haunt you even in the middle of the
night, hanging around like ghosts, driving you insane...
“Dancing With Myself” tells in music and words of the feeling of
deep, desperate solitude that experiences a man living a wavering,
waning, trembling present... Then it’s the turn of “Scrambled
Eggs”, a dreamy instrumental piece that alternates delicate,
pastoral passages to electric diversions.
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The long, complex “Church” begins by the sound of an organ solo
pattern and is about a religious, mystical crises where all the
established values seem to crumble. The lyrics name many times the
number seven that in numerology is considered the union of the
spiritual world rooted in the Holy Trinity with the material world
that is based on the four elements... “Stay Here My Friends”
closes the album describing friendship like a shelter in the rainy
season, an antidote to the poisonous effects that everyday life can
bring...
On the whole, a good album even if the vocal parts in my opinion are
not always up to the task...
You can listen to the complete album HERE
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