Saturday, January 27, 2024

Acqua Fragile - Moving Fragments (2023)

The fourth album from this band from Italy.

The band is a sextet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, keyboards, guitars and vocals.

Some guests added drums, guitars, saxophone and flute.

This band album debuted in the early 1970s and released two pretty good albums back then. They returned again in 2017 with a decent album and has again returned with what must be their final meeting in the studio. 

The musicians here are getting on a lot and most of them are in their seventies and their eighties. 

Acqua Fragile is a legacy band in the RPI scene and Italian progressive rock is what we get here. Forty minutes of RPI somewhere between symphonic prog, eclectic psych rock and good old Italian rock and pop.

The music is pretty complex and not so much run of the mill melodic as I expected from a legacy RPI album. 

The vocals are both in Italian and in English. They are reasonably good. 

This album is a good effort and the quality is somewhere between decent and good. I am not impressed but I am glad that they went to studio for one final hurrah. 

2.5 points



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