Sunday, March 17, 2024

Moongarden - Christmas Night 2066 (2023)

The tenth album from this band from Italy.

The band is a sextet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, violins, piano, mellotron, keyboards, samples, taurus pedals and vocals.

Moongarden has been and still is the leading Italian band in the neo-prog scene. They album debuted thirty years ago and is still alive. Mostly as a studio project, I suspect. I have yet to spot any gigs and tours they are undertaking this year.

The music is a mix of pastoral and epic neo-prog. 

Their take on neo-prog is pretty much in the middle of the road, standard neo-prog. The music is still very effective and showcases this genre.

We get a forty-three minutes long journey through this genre, done with both elegance and power. 

The songs are good and ditto for the sound and the vocals. The violins is adding some spice and quality here.

This is a good album and one to check out.

3 points



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