PAOLO BALTARO – The Day after the
Night before
Banksville
Records Company
I
am not used to receiving a vinyl as a promo. Most of the labels have us used to
digital promos. So this is something that I will remember and of course
something that impressed me. However, this doesn’t mean that someone can “bribe”
me with such a move (but you can try if you want to hehehe). So let me get to
the point… this is a release of Paolo Baltaro from Italy who I have never known
before this release, although he has achieved some great accomplishments in his
career as the award of best progressive of the year2010 by the Prog Award
Webzine. But besides that he is a musician that can play all the instruments,
someone with a restless spirit that can feel satisfaction in a specific genre.
So, if you do a research in his career you will find out that he has played
from experimental nu-jazz to punk rock and in 2016 he even released a book that
soon will be translated in the English language. If you are not impressed,
personally I am.
Why
am I telling you all these you might ask. I think that all these will give you
hints of what you will listen to on this album. Actually as Paolo states he
wrote the soundtracks of imaginary movies except for the song “Do it Again”
which is the music score for the short movie “La Tempete”. Now this is what I
call a really great idea and shows how the artist treats his music. Actually he
wants through his songs to create stories that will capture the interest of the
listener and make him/her participate by using his/her imagination. He manages
all his songs to have a narrative by incorporating and fusing many different
styles in such a natural way. So, don’t be surprised or actually be surprised
by the ability of Paolo to combine rock and pop music elements with jazz and
blues. He even uses the barking of a dog in a song. All these might sound to
you difficult for a listener without musical knowledge to comprehend, but
believe me the compositions here are quite catchy and melodic.
It
is very hard to describe this album, but if I had to then I would say it
belongs to the progressive rock/jazz fusion genre mixed with some blues
elements too. The most important thing, though, is that Paolo achieves to
create intricate music and yet to sound so straight forward.
“The
Day after the Night before” is a periphrastic definition of Today and it shows the
way of thinking and creating music Paolo has which is original, intriguing,
innovative and asks from the listener to sharpen his/her brain. It might not be
something that I am used to since heavy metal music is my genre, but this is a
great album and people who are into progressive rock have to check it out.
Nick
“Verkaim” Parastatidis
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