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PHOENIX AGAIN








ABOUT

PHOENIX AGAIN

....From official website



The foundation of Phoenix Again dates back to 1981, year in which this band from Brescia was born and baptized Phoenix.

The band founders were the three Lorandi brothers, Claudio, Sergio and Antonio, all together with their drummer Silvano Silva. At this time they played live concerts all over their hometown. After five years of playing together, Antonio left the band in 1986.
The sorts of Phoenix changed again in 1991, with the entry of Emilio Rossi’s keyboards, which added to their compositions a more symphonic direction. The collaboration with Emilio Rossi led to the recording ALCHIMIE, the first tape with original compositions of the band. The live activity of the group went along until 1998, year in which the band dissolved.

After the tragic death of the eldest brother Claudio who passed away after a long disease in 2007, the remaining band founders gathered together once more and decided to let the phoenix rise again from its ashes and to record an album which would contain some of the historic compositions of their music career and chose the bands current name Phoenix Again. The resulting commemorative album THREEFOUR was dedicated to Claudio and released in december 2010.
It received enthusiastic reviews by prog-rock magazines all over the world.
In 2011 some young musicians entered the band lines: Marco Lorandi, Giorgio Lorandi (the sons of Antonio) and Andrea Piccinelli. During the live activity Alessandra Lorandi, Sergio’s daughter, plays the flute in the track Free Ireland.

On 28th february 2014 the Phoenix Again released their second studio album LOOK OUT with the new complete formation: Sergio Lorandi (guitars); Antonio Lorandi (bass guitars); Silvano Silva (drums & percussion); Andrea Piccinelli (keyboards & cello); Marco Lorandi (guitars); Giorgio Lorandi (percussion).

The phoenix is reborn from its ashes, at least this is the legend, but that of Phoenix Again is in perpetual flight, a deduction that comes after listening to their latest work, Vision, which is concretely the summary of how the band sees, perceives, intends and realizes that rock that makes you travel on high musical altitudes just by listening. Compared to my first listening to this band, with Uniexplorer, a lot of time has passed, and going back a bit to their first audacious work, having now come to this new Vision, it must be said that the ideal perspective has changed a bit but, the music, has crossed the sound barrier and not only that. Yes, because this is one of the most interesting and mature bands in our music scene, a band that doesn't just make music but carries it directly into the hearts of the listener. In the meantime, let's start with the first novelty of the group: in fact, Alessio Bolpagni joins the line up at Phoenix Again, who on guitars replaces Marco Lorandi who has decided to take a break after the release of this album. Vision is presented, like all Phoenix Again's works, full of sounds and instrumental passages that leave no room for reflections of genre during listening, if one excludes the mere fact that the band is so powerful in dragging the listener into a whirlwind of emotions. And Vision is still, for the Brescian group, another splendid album matured in four years of production alternating with the band's live shows. As always we travel between progressive, symphonic and great brushstrokes of jazz that color the tight musical tempos, a record that travels completely in instrumental also pushing itself on often innovative platforms with passages and plots that make this album a work that you never stop listening to and listen again, the power of the sound is so strong, a sound experienced in full harmony by the band capable of transporting the listener towards that Vision of tough Italian rock but with an international flavor. Vision is not only the evolution of Phoenix Again's rock, Vision is also the evolution of a different flight for the phoenix, a flight that projects the rock animal that we know so well towards new sonic destinations.





























Moments of Life -PHOENIX AGAIN
https://phoenixagain.bandcamp.com/track/moments-of-life




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