Artist : Antena White Opera

Album : Ouroboros

Release Date : 20-01-2020

Added : 13-02-2020

'Antenna White Opera' is a project created in 2015 by Italians 'Lorenzo Armagno' and 'Davide Piombino' with a first album in 2018 (see here) and 2020 sees the release of a 2nd studio recording 'Ouroboros' and the least we can say is that they do not make the buzz on the web while their album is quite remarkable and they deserve to be known. On the one hand, the compositions of 'Davide Piombino' who is an author, composer, singer and guitarist take us on a rich and inventive progressive mixing rock and metal with a gift for beautiful melodic lines and, on the other hand, they had the good idea to recruit a singer, the Sicilian 'Paola Criscione' who has a voice that fits perfectly into the group's compositions. In addition, the orchestral and arranging work of 'Lorenzo Armagno' is quite remarkable and, even if he doesn't use orchestral instruments, arrives via music production software at a completely stunning result. The album consists of songs sung and others completely instrumental: there are 6 songs sung ('Pile of Boulders', 'Descent', 'Life Expectancy', 'The Great Wall' , 'Infinite Labyrinth' and 'It Ends Like Everything Starts') and the atmospheres are quite varied, with always very nice vocal performances by Paola who has the talent to modulate her voice according to the style, sometimes powerful as in 'Pile of Boulders' and sometimes aerial as in 'Descent', which makes me think of the Brazilians of 'Fleesh' (see the different chronicles of myprogmusic here, here and here). Also note some vocal interventions of Davide, too little for my taste especially when Paola performs the second voice. As for the 3 instrumental tracks ('Obsidian', 'Ouroboros' with a recited passage and 'Carnage'), they develop a sought-after and inventive progressive between rock and metal but we can also note beautiful alternations between sung and instrumental parts in the first 6 titles mentioned above which also make them very beautiful progressive pieces and to illustrate the point, we can cite the longest title of the opus, 'Infinite Labyrinth'.

In summary, the 3 Italians of 'Antena White Opera' released a very promising album which already has all the qualities of progressive music mixing beautiful melodies and remarkable instrumental sections worthy of the best names in the genre which should , I hope, make them known fairly quickly in the progressive sphere...

Line Up / Musicians

Davide Piombino (Guitar), Lorenzo Armagno (Drums), Paola Criscione (Vocal)