Acqua Fragile - Moving Fragment-A review from Holland

 

Review:

 Acqua Fragile - Moving Fragments (MaRaCash Records, 2023) (Progressieve Rock)

Original review:

https://carrysnewundergroundmusic.blogspot.com/2024/03/review-acqua-fragile-moving-fragments.html

 

Acqua Fragile was founded in 1971 in Parma, Italy and initially existed until 1975, before reviving between 2004 and 2006 and then being revived again in 2017 under the name Acqua Fragile Project.

The band released their debut album "Acqua Fragile" in 1973 via Rocket and this was followed by "Mass Media Stars" (DJM, 1974), "Live In Emilia" (Prehistoric, 1994), "A New Chant" (Cherry Red, 2017) and "Moving Fragments" (MaRaCash Records, October 20, 2023).

On their album "Moving Fragments", which was released as LP, CD and digital download, the band consists of the 3 original members Bernardo Lanzetti - vocals, lead guitar and Glovox, Franz Dondi - bass guitar and Piero Canavera - drums, percussion and vocals, who together with Rossella Volta - vocals, Claudio Tuma - rhythm guitar and Stefano Pantaleoni - keyboards form the band.

The following guest musicians also participate: Gigi Cavalli Cocchi - drums (track 1 and 6), Stef Burns - lead guitar (track 2), Brian Belloni - lead guitar (track 4), Sergio Ponti - drums (track 4 and 9), Davide Piombino - 7 string guitar (track 5) and David Jackson - saxophone and flute (track 6).

The 9-track album begins with “Her Shadow's Torture,” in which Acqua Fragile delivers a great piece of mid-tempo progressive rock that incorporates film music influences and a recurring rhythm, and is followed by “White Horse On Dope", a beautiful rock song with a medium tempo and a recurring rhythm and the title track "Moving Fragments", a beautiful quiet song with progressive influences of theater music, which has tempo changes.

This is followed by "Malo Bravo", a fantastic symphonic song with a medium tempo, a danceable recurring rhythm, tempo changes and a somewhat dark appearance, "IA - Intelligenza Artificiale", a beautiful progressive rock song with a not too high tempo and a catchy rhythm and "Black Drone", a great heavy song with a medium tempo, which evokes a dark atmosphere and contains progressive jazz influences.

In "DD Danz" Acqua Fragile presents me with a delightfully dark-sounding instrumental song with a medium tempo, in "Il Suono Della Voce" I get to hear a wonderful uptempo song that has light disco influences and contains a danceable rhythm and in " Limerence Ethereal" I hear the band playing a beautiful song, which has a recurring rhythm and contains tempo changes.

"Moving Fragments" by Acqua Fragile is a great album with catchy progressive rock songs, which I can highly recommend to fans of this genre.

Listen to this album via the bandcamp link below the review…