La Nuova Era - La Nuova Era (1984) {1994, Reissue}

Nuova Era are one of the more highly regarded Italian prog bands of the nineties amongst the RPI loving community. They are a symphonic quartet (or a quintet if you count the lyricist on album cover of "Dopo L'Infinito") with a style influenced by the 70's masters but performed with contemporary technology. Releasing their debut, L'Ultimo Viaggio in 1988, they went on to release a further three albums culminating with the wonderful Il Passo Del Soldato in 1995. Apart from contributing to the ambitious The Divine Comedy project, a sprawling collection released as three separate multi disc sets based on Dante Alighieri's epic poem, all has been quiet on the recording front since, until now that is. Before you get too excited however this eponymous release is not so much a new album from the band, but more a collection, though with something to offer the long term fan in terms of recordings they may not have. Musically the band is towards the symphonic end of Italian prog with a prominent keyboard driven sound. In fact by the release of Il Passo Del Soldato guitar was absent from the line- up. Clearly influenced by the classic seventies era of Italian prog they nevertheless stamp enough of their own identity to mark them out as more than mere clones of a bygone era. ~ Prog Archives