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ALIANTE





Italian progressive rock has many excellent instrumentalists who have created many good level albums, unfortunately they have a weak point .. easy abandonments after just two albums and this situation does not create the conditions for having groups that can last many years and can with the time to reach the level of the Top bands of the progressive ....
and also for the Aliante we are in this umpteenth situation.
I arrive five years late to meet this group
which started with a formation of three artists with Bass Drums and Keyboards ....
and they have released two good level albums that I recommend you listen to "Forme Libere" and "Sul Confine" the first released in 2017 and the second released in 2019 ... you will find them both on youtube and of course it is above all a music that has the keyboards of the excellent
Enrico Filippi at the center of each track
but the pandemic blocks the project and when they get together to create the third album Enrico Filippi leaves the group and not to go to another group but certainly due to differences on the genre direction of the album and is still without a group:
I consider it an important loss because the following ones would certainly have been worthy of attention given the previous two ....
however Aliante change lineup and also the style of playing by adding a guitarist and a new keyboardist but they are still able to produce good tracks and that's why I include them in my best tracks of 2022
... even if I preferred them in the previous lineup, maybe they'll prove me wrong with the next album
In the meantime, I will keep keyboardist Enrico Filippi under control if he joins a new group



ABOUT

ALIANTE

....from the ALIANTE official website



ALIANTE are born from an idea of ​​bassist Alfonso Capasso.

Precisely on August 17, 2016, the drummer Jacopo Giusti receives a phone call from Alfonso who offers him a new, instrumental, trio formation "bass, drums and keyboards". Jacopo accepts immediately, eager for a new project of unreleased songs and also enthusiastic about returning to play together with Alfonso after so many years. The choice of a keyboard player immediately falls on Enrico Filippi, with whom they had a musical background from 2002 to 2004, while Alfonso and Jacopo have already played together since 1995.

The birth of this new project has always been based on the personal style of each of the three, who have channeled their musical experience, teaching and above all musical tastes, a combination that immediately embraced progressive, jazz-rock, improvisations typical of the 70s.

The first rehearsals immediately laid the foundations for the structures of the pieces, which arose at the very moment of the performance and in part from Enrico's ideas. The part that surprised the three musicians was the complete freedom that each one has and that they gave to the others. A mutual respect of ideas and music which in the end, defining it in detail, gave the trio the opportunity to define the final structure of the compositions.

In March 2017 Aliante entered the recording studio and at Riccardo Andreini's "L'Ottava Nota" they gave birth to their first album entitled "Free Forms" precisely in honor of collective compositional freedom. The disc was printed and distributed by Vannuccio Zanella's MP Records and met with unexpected success that surprised the musicians themselves. In one track there is the narrative voice of Serena Andreini, who reads the introductory text of the disc, written for the occasion by Alfonso.

Several concerts followed in the Tuscan area and in the rest of Italy, the most important of which, in 2018 at the Stazione della Birra in Rome, as an opening to the Le Orme concert.

In the meantime, a very important collaboration was born, through the owner of the MP Records label, between Aliante and Renzo Zenobi, a singer-songwriter whose curriculum boasts collaborations with Francesco De Gregori, Lucio Dalla, Ennio Morricone, Franco Battiato and many others. The project, destined to turn into Zenobi's current latest album entitled "Volando", saw the participation of Aliante as a studio band and actively involved in the delicate arrangements of the Roman singer-songwriter.

The album, released in 2018, also saw the participation in a piece by the pianist Arturo Stalteri. After this collaborative interlude, Aliante returned to writing the pieces for their second album, preferring more the compositions of the singles, then subsequently arranged by the whole band.

This is how "Sul Confine" was born, a more sought-after and less improvised album like the previous one, which also sees the presence in a piece of the violinist Marianna Vuocolo. Also this second work, still distributed by MP Records, had a notable success in terms of sales and fans of the progressive genre.

In January 2020 Aliante will perform an excellent concert in Milan for the presentation of the album.
The global pandemic interrupts live activity in general for all musical events.

The three then decide to compose new material, when suddenly Enrico Filippi abandons the project.
Alfonso and Jacopo after several auditions, decide to try a guitarist instead of keyboards.
Join the band, Davide Capitanio, guitarist with various experiences but above all a researcher of very particular sounds.

At the end of the same year, Aliante made their live debut in this new formation, gaining a collective consensus of great enthusiasm. During the concert, the band that opened the set for Aliante had a multi-instrumentalist in their ranks who immediately attracted the attention of the three. After the concert Michele Lenzi (keyboards, bassoon, flute and guitar) was asked to join Aliante. With Michele inside the band, the sound has moved towards an even more sophisticated progressive in terms of sounds and compositions.

The songs, once again born from individual ideas, unravel between melodies, psychedelic moments, fusions between guitar, keyboards and bassoon that have enriched the arrangements.

After about a year (with the due difficulties related to the Covid restrictions) at the beginning of 2022 Aliante returned to the studio, as always at Andreini's Ottava Nota, recording the much material composed in 2021. On the album there is a return to the feminine in terms of narration with Serena Andreini and to the violin with Marianna Vuocolo, both in a piece of the disc. The title of the new one is “Destinazioni oblique” and it is a long, new journey











Hi friends

2022 Work in Progress..ive



These are my best tracks of 2022



Track Title-Group or Artist-Album

The Chosen Ones-LALU-Paint the Sky

Land of Green (part 1)-KARFAGEN-Land of Green and Gold

Jagannath-SIMON PHILLIPS-Protocol V

Alda-BREIDABLIK-Alduorka

Mrs Tibbets-JETHRO TULL-The Zealot Gene

Living For A Better Day-TIME HORIZON-Power Of Three

A Needle Tree-KARCIUS-Grey White Silver Yellow and Gold

No Still Moment-LIGHTHOUSE SPARROWS-Aerials

Little Pretty-STEVE VAI-Inviolate

The Elephants of Mars-JOE SATRIANI-The Elephants of Mars

Wilderness Excursion-KAIPA-Urskog

Changing Worlds-THE JOHN IRVINE BAND-Psychopomp

In 256 Zeichen-TANGERINE DREAM-Raum

Scissors-GHOST OF THE MACHINE-Scissorgames

Die Before You Wake-BEN CRAVEN-Monsters from the id

The Changes-THE TANGENT- Songs From The Hard Shoulder

The Myth of the Mostrophus-RYO OKUMOTO- The Myth Of The Mostrophus

The Odd Land Of Nod-PROPORTIONS- The Odd Land Of Nod

Harridan-PORCUPINE TREE- Closure/Continuation

Heroic Materials-COSMOGRAF- Heroic Materials

The Continuum-DJAM KARET-Island In The Red Night Sky

Der Hauch Des Lebens-KLAUS SCHULZE-Deus Arrakis

Under The Microscope-ARENA-The Theory of Molecular Inheritance

Better Life-DAVE KERZNER -The Traveler

It's Love-GLASS HAMMER -At the Gate

Confusion-PYMLICO-Supermassive

Anthem to the Phoenix Star-THE SAMURAI OF PROG-Anthem To The Phoenix Star

Omega Lights-GALAHAD-The Last Great Adventurer

Il Mondo Di Fronte-ALIANTE-Destinazioni Oblique
















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