SYNDONE: Kama Sutra (PROGRESSIVE ROCK): review / opinion to read on Music Waves

Since their return to the business in 2010 with "Melapesante", the Italians of Syndone have not stopped producing albums, each one more interesting than the other. So it's with an undisguised pleasure that we are given to discover their new work entitled "Kama Sutra". Quite a program!

If the title of this new album suggests that Syndone will deliver this time precious advice on the different ways to reach sexual pleasure, the subject is deeper than it seems, as Riccardo Ruggieri reveals: "For Syndone, (Kama Sutra) becomes a pretext to evoke the love between two people, the reality of today's prostitutes, the provocation, the images, the symbols, the role-playing and the people. Among all this, a true story, that of Perlasca, a heroine who fought against Nazism, and many other common stories with invented characters, deities, erotic symbols and much, much love.

Musically, there is no need to worry: as usual, the Italian group delivers a score without reproach, both for its abundance of ideas and for its impeccable execution and realization. The orchestrations are sumptuous with the very appropriate use of an orchestra which melts admirably with the instruments of the group, bringing a great depth to the music, and the interventions of the invited soloists (song, sitar, sax...) which still add to the great diversity of the opus.

For Syndone's creativity succeeds once again in surprising the listener most used to the band's antics. Hard rock where the roar of the Hammond organ reminds the best hours of Deep Purple, baroque music, opera aria, musical comedy of the 50's, symphonic romanticism, jazzy passages, orientalist or discordant madness (this solo of David Jackson on 'Sex Toys R Us'!) telescope in an astonishing fluidity, one of the trademarks of the band.

With "Kama Sutra", Syndone resurrects the glam rock in all its eccentricity, its excess and its genius, the one that Queen deployed with happiness on "Sheer Heart Attack", "A Night at the Opera" and "A Day at the Races". The shadow of the British group hovers over several compositions of the Italians ('Nirvana', 'You Still Shine', 'Sacred & Profane', 'Peace on Earth'), Riccardo Ruggieri, excellent as usual, being able to compare himself without blushing to Freddie Mercury with its power, fragility and grandiloquence.

Very varied, always interesting, admirably played and sung, "Kama Sutra" holds the listener in breath from one end to the other. Once again masterly! - Official website

SYNDONE

KAMA SUTRA

MARACASH

PROGRESSIVE ROCK