HOSTSONATEN - SYMPHONY N.1-CUPID & PSYCHE (CLEAR PURPLE VINYL!)

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2016 Instrumental Symphonic Prog album by one of our most popular Italian bands and comes pressed on Clear Purple Vinyl LP in a Gatefold Sleeve!

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Named after the films of Ingmar Bergman's ‘Autumn Sonata’ and its components, HÖSTSONATEN is an Italian Symphonic Progressive music group that revolves around the figure of the Italian rock musician: Fabio Zuffanti. With the participation of several guest musicians, the group has released seven albums (plus a collection of rarities) over the past seventeen years that all feature the use of classic Prog keyboards instruments such as the Moog synthesizer and the Mellotron. During most of these years, next to PFM, the WATCH and the ROME PRO(G)JECT, HÖSTSONATEN has been one of the top selling Italian bands in the CDS Towers Catalogue, and there’s a good reason for that… they produce quality, keyboard driven, instrumental Symphonic Prog of the highest order, together with equally high quality packaging for the wonderful albums they produce.

For ‘Symphony # 1: Cupid & Psyche’ Zuffanti has recruited the talents of Luca Scherani, an orchestral arranger of some note in Italy. For some time Fabio has dreamt of composing a symphonic suite for group and orchestra on a mythological subject that could also serve as ballet music, just as great composers such as Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky have done in the past. Apuleio's account of ‘Cupid And Psyche’ (taken from the ‘Metamorphosis’) inspired Zuffanti to jot down a series of musical ideas suitable for such a suite.
When he had completed the cycle, he put the material in the hands of Luca Scherani, who arranged it for string quartet, woodwinds and brass, sometimes drawing on Zuffanti’s ideas and sometimes writing new arrangements of his own. The aim was not to produce an album of classical music, but to blend the sounds of the orchestra with the urgency of rock. And so the album includes fiery bass, drum and guitar sections combined with the magniloquence of the violin, the bassoon, the trumpet and all the other instruments of the orchestra. To this he adds, in the best Prog tradition, plenty of keyboards such as Moog, Mellotron, organ and piano of various kinds.
An album such as this one clearly has illustrious predecessors and sources of inspiration, particularly the NEW TROLLS’ ‘Concerto Grosso’, the most symphonic chapters of GENESIS and the great Romantic composers of the past. Fabio and Luca have added their own sensibility and all the atmospheres characteristic of HÖSTSONATEN to these influences.

‘Cupid & Psyche’ is the first of a series of projects in strictly classical style that Fabio and Luca would like to work on in the future: a series of rock symphonies to make their own positive contribution to the merger of urgency with classicism.

‘Hostsonaten-Symphony N.1-Cupid & Psyche’ is also available as a Deluxe Card Sleeve CD – Stock # 1861617

‘Hostsonaten-Symphony N.1-Cupid & Psyche’ was released 6th May 2016.

HÖSTSONATEN: SYMPHONY N.1–CUPID & PSYCHE LP Track List:

01. Sacrifice
02. Zephyr
03. Love Scene
04. Unmasking
05. Venus {1st Trail}
06. Entrapped {2nd Trail}
07. Sheep And Water {3rd Trail}
08. Underworld {4th Trail}
09. Awakening
10. Ascension