FRANCO MUSSIDA - RACCONTI DELLA TENDA ROSSA - 1991

This first solo album by Franco Mussida "Racconti Della Tenda Rossa" is an album in the vein of acoustc guitar Prog... And one of the album that I prefer in my discography. Sure Franco Musida is one of the best guitarplayer of all time and in this album Mussida creates of the attractive bridges with the fantasy and the pleasure of to play a sole instrument. The use of the acoustic guitar returns to Steve Howe's "Spectrum" but with an arabic use of the voices. The songs can seem POP but goes said that there it is a search towards a musical shape that will be taken again in the albums "Ulisse" and also in the last "Stati Di Immaginazione" of the PFM, at least for it search for simple atmospheres, easy to listen to and above all built to dream. In this sense "La Cava Di Sabbia" is a song that in "Stati Di Immaginazione" It wouldn't have been superfluous. Franco Mussida gives long all of the album excellent scores of guitar that to concept level isn't distant from Riccardo Zappa, also if in this case the songs are more POP. In this last sense the strange Jazzy "Dance Classique" is another example because Mussida tribute also the style of Al Di Meola!!! In "Racconti Della Tenda Rossa" You will not find the classic one 70' s Italian Prog, but a POP Prog and also more innermost. Also because Franco Mussida had way to put fruit Personal experiences very deep, that the to play in prisons or community of recover. And this listens to well in "La Discesa Di Michele", song little Prog but struggent and extreme coinvolgent. Also the short "Porti Lontani" is good in this direction because returns to one of the much villages of fishermen of the South Italy where every day a fisherman leaves and doesn't know if will return. And with the successive one "Zanoobia" creates a really sole pathos. In a certain sense "Racconti Della Tenda Rossa" it is approached also to the last works of Le Orme, also because it is obvious a search for the feeling with respect to the power and to the virtuosism. To the end, the last best song of hese album is "Tenda Rossa", another emotional slow song.

In the road that it will carry the PFM to produce "Ulisse" and the last masterpiece "Stati Di Immaginazione" this "Racconti Della Tenda Rossa" is the start. Unfortunately the three albums isn't consecutive albums... And the first one is a Franco Mussida's solo album. But for me "Racconti della Tenda Rossa", "Ulisse" and "Stati Di Immaginazione" go listened to like part of a trilogy. For this fact Franco Mussida is in PA. And for this fact I recommended this "Racconti Della Tenda Rossa".
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