Rock Progressivo Italiano: An introduction to Italian Progressive Rock - Paperback

by Andrea Parentin (Author)

P.F.M., B.M.S. and Le Orme were just the tip of the iceberg of a widespread movement with its own characteristics. Well, I think you have to know in some way the movement that generated those feelings, those energies and those sounds... Many people don't care about lyrics or the ideology behind music but I feel there's something important missing when you don't understand what the music is about: often music reflects our times and becomes the voice of a generation and sometimes talking about music can be a way of talking about other issues, as dreams, politics, history, social customs...

Author Biography

Andrea Parentin was born in Trieste in 1968. He's a graduate in law with a great passion for music and has been for many years a collaborator of the progressive rock site progarchives.com