“Return to the Castle” non fa eccezione, e segna il vero ritorno sulle scene della formazione capitanata da Walter Pini, da sempre principale compositore della band, qui raggiunto tra gli altri dallo storico cantante e chitarrista Alex Camalti. I Nuova Era sono una formazione fondamentale nel panorama del prog-rock italiano: attivi tra la fine degli anni ’80 e la prima metà dei ’90, furono autori in quel periodo di quattro album considerati dagli appassionati imperdibili per chi nutra un minimo di interesse nella ‘materia progressiva’. To the considerable length of this album, consisting of six long passages alternated with shorter interludes called ‘Carousels’, contribute many long-lasting instrumental parts. Given these premises, the publication of “Return to the Castle” therefore represents an important event: a 75-minute symphonic progressive rock, sung in English for the first time in the history of the band, which ranges from baroque sections to other ones more dreamy and atmospheric.
Over twenty years have passed since “Il passo del soldato” (1995), a long period interrupted in 2010 by an eponymous release (AMS187CD, 2010), a compilation of already released songs, demos, new studio and live recordings. “Return to the Castle” is no exception, and marks the true comeback for the group led by Walter Pini, the band’s main composer, here joined among others by the historical singer and guitarist Alex Camalti.
Nuova Era are a fundamental band in the Italian prog-rock scene: active between the late ’80s and the first half of the ’90s, they released in those years four albums which most of the prog enthusiasts consider unmissable for whoever nourishes even the slightest interest in the ‘progressive rock matter’.
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