“MOVING FRAGMENTS”, the new album by Acqua Fragile, will be released on October 20th (CD and vinyl)

ACQUA FRAGILE

New Album

“MOVING FRAGMENTS”

 

Prog Band from Italy, Acqua Fragile, fifty years after the first album by the same name in 1973, comes out with a brand new work, an album with totally original songs, entitled: “MOVING FRAGMENTS”.

Confirming the salient characteristics of A F style - vocal harmonies, odd tempo signatures, romanticism, aggression, theatricality and research – some new features and significant developments embellish this new album.

The three original members of the band Piero Canavera/drums, percussion and

vocals, Franz Dondi/bass, Bernardo Lanzetti/lead vocals, guitar and Glovox, are

joined in by Stefano Pantaleoni/keyboards, Claudio Tuma/guitars and the vocalist Rossella Volta, all previously together on stage in live adventures, over

the past two years.

Nine songs of which five in English, one instrumental and three in Italian.

Developing the mode experimented in AF previous work, “A New Chant”, released In 2017, there are numerous guest musicians including one British and

one American.

In three songs, Bernardo Lanzetti's creative motor is fueled by the contribution

of keyboardist and composer Stefano Pantaleoni.

The production is entrusted to Dario Mazzoli, already a partner of Lanzetti in various adventures in the recording studio, including his latest solo album "Horizontal Rain" (2021).

 

In detail, hereʼs the CD track list 

Naturally for the vinyl, with sides A and B, the order is different.

 

1. “Her Shadowʼs Torture” (S. Pantaleoni/B.lanzetti). Guest Gigi Cavalli Cocchi

on drums but also produced the cover and the band's brand new logo.

2. “White Horse On Dope” (B. Lanzetti). Guest guitarist Stef Burns.

3. “Moving Fragments” (B.Lanzetti)

4. “Malo Bravo” (B.Lanzetti). Guests Brian Belloni/guitars and Sergio Ponti/

drums.

5. “I A - Intelligenza Artificiale” (S.Pantaleoni/B.Lanzetti). Guest Davide

Piombino/7 string guitar.

6. “Black Drone” (B.Lanzetti). Guests, Gigi Cavalli Cocchi/drums and David

Jackson/sax and flute.

7. “DD Danz” (S.Pantaleoni). Instrumental.

8. “Il Suono Della Voce” (B.Lanzetti)

9. “Limerence Ethereal” (B.Lanzetti). Guest Sergio Ponti/drums

 

All guest musicians have militancy or knowledge of the Progressive Rock genre.

The presence of Stef Burns who, in a concert with his Rock Trio, did positively

strike Bernardo, is quite interesting. Of course, famous for his collaboration

with Italian Big Star Vasco Rossi, Stef mentioned a previous period of research

very close to Prog.

 

“White Horse On Dope”, the song featuring Mr.Burns on electric guitar, could

be described as “Hard Rock in odd time” on which vocal harmony, in pure

Acqua Fragile style, produces an eery effect.

 

“Black Drone” makes use of the total contribution of the horns of David

Jackson, legendary player with Van Der Graaf Generator and frequent visitor to

Italy. Once taken in all parts of the arrangement submitted by Bernardo, David

went so far as to perform EVERYTHING!

 

Among the songs in Italian it is worth mentioning “IA Intelligenza Artificiale”,

where the vocalist Rossella has two short solo parts, as the song was written

three years ago, before the topic became so everyday.