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Hard Times

by Arcansiel

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Gli Arcansiel nascono nel 1986 dall’incontro tra il tastierista Marco Galletti (autore e compositore di tutti i brani) e il batterista Gianni Lavagno. La pubblicazione dei primi due album “Four daisies” e “Stillsearching”, è accolta favorevolmente, nel mondo del prog italiano, da critica e pubblico, in particolar modo la suite “I’m Still Searching”, presente nel secondo. Negli anni ’90 a Galletti subentra Paolo Baltaro, con il quale il gruppo pubblica "Normality of Perversion" e “Swimming In The Sand”.
Dopo esattamente vent’anni dall’ultimo lavoro e con una formazione rinnovata per 4/5 rispetto a quella originale (è presente solo uno dei fondatori, Gianni Lavagno), riecco gli Arcansiel col il loro quinto album, scritto a sei mani dalla triade Lombardo-Sorella-Valvo, nel quale ciascuno di loro mette il proprio retroterra culturale nelle musiche e nei testi dei quattro brani che lo compongono.
Già dal titolo si possono intuire quelle che saranno le atmosfere e gli argomenti presenti in questo nuovo lavoro: i tempi difficili che stiamo affrontando dal punto di vista sociale, culturale ed etico, per i quali la band si è divertita a creare un’analogia con i tempi difficili che contraddistinguono il Rock Progressivo, immaginando questi ultimi come una metafora dei primi (non a caso la parola “times” è scritta usando, per alcune lettere, l’alfabeto “leet”, nel quale la somiglianza dei numeri alle lettere che sostituiscono, in questo caso dispari come spesso i tempi del Prog, rendono comunque intuibile il testo).

Arcansiel were born in 1986 from the meeting between keyboardist Marco Galletti (author and composer of all the songs) and drummer Gianni Lavagno. The publication of the first two albums "Four daisies" and "Stillsearching" was favorably received in the world of Italian prog by critics and the public, especially the suite "I'm Still Searching", present in the second. In the 90s Galletti was replaced by Paolo Baltaro, with whom the group released "Normality of Perversion" and "Swimming In The Sand".
After exactly twenty years from their last work and with a lineup renewed for 4/5 compared to the original one (only one of the founders is present, Gianni Lavagno), Arcansiel is back with their fifth album, co-written by the Lombardo triad -Sorella-Valvo, in which each of them puts their own cultural background in the music and lyrics of the four songs that compose it.

Already from the title you can guess what the atmospheres and topics present in this new work will be: the difficult times we are facing from a social, cultural and ethical point of view, for which the band enjoyed creating an analogy with the difficult times that distinguish Progressive Rock, imagining the latter as a metaphor for the former (it is no coincidence that the word "times" is written using, for some letters, the "leet" alphabet, in which the similarity of the numbers to the letters that replace, in this case odd as often, the tempos of the Prog, still make the text understandable).

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released March 29, 2024

ARCANSIEL:
GIANNI LAVAGNO - Drums & Percussion
MARCO LECCESE - Lead Voice
FELICE LOMBARDO - Fretted & Fretless Six-string Electric Basses
DAVIDE SORELLA – Keyboards
SEBASTIANO VALVO - Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Vocals

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Ma.Ra.Cash Records is an indie prog label based in Vigevano (PV), Italy. Founded in 2005 by Massimo Orlandini and Domizia Parri and Raoul Caprio, who left the label in 2007 and used to run his own prog label beforehand, (Kaliphonia) and a CD/LP shop in Milan.
Ma.Ra.Cash Records won the first edition of the ProgAwards as Best Indie Label. ... more

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