Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Moongarden - Moonsadness (1994)

The debut album from this band from Italy.

The band was a trio with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars and keyboards.

Three guests added guitar, flute and lead vocals.

Moongarden has just released their new album, their tenth album. I have, to my shame, only reviewed three of them and is reviewing three of their albums this fall. Starting with this one....

The band is one of the bigger neo-prog bands in Italy. They have been, and rightly so, associated with the RPI scene too although their music is not RPI. Their music is more British influenced neo-prog.

The band took their first steps, babysteps, on this album. A forty minutes long album.

The sound is very much a mix of the 1980s neo-prog sound and some 1990s neo-prog sound. The songs are pretty poor.

There are some good details here though. Nevertheless, this is a decent album and one they could improve on.

2 points

 

 


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