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Multi-instrumentalist Michele Vissani's Stargenesis (once again assisted by singer Valeriano De Zordo), have released their third album, entitled “Roses In Space”. Compared to the previous work, a monumental concept lasting approximately eighty minutes, the new full-length certainly presents a structure that is generally less complex but still very well-finished on both a lyrical and musical level.
We immediately notice how the tracklist is indeed quite heterogeneous: on the other hand, Stargenesis have always had the tendency to range from acoustic or even pop pieces to more refined sounds, of a progressive rock or harder nature, up to metal. This characteristic is proposed even more clearly in this new work, which immediately starts very well with the first part of “Constellations”, a suite actually divided into three tracks, where the band ranges between prog nuances and atmospheric passages, and then veer towards territories with a hint closer to hard rock.
However, the second track included in the setlist is decidedly different, “La Promessa”, a truly very beautiful song, entrusted to the voice of Gianluca Nardei, sung entirely in Italian, which made us breathe atmospheres capable of referring to PFM or Le Orme. Furthermore, it is not the only song in Italian, because next we find “Il Senso Di Noi”, performed by De Zordo, while at the end there is “Luce Infinita” (this time with Lucia Vissani behind the microphones), but for the two tracks already mentioned the band opts more for songs between singer-songwriter and pop rock.
A very different approach is that of the title track, a song closer to prog metal: an authentic pearl, where Stargenesis manage to bring together the different souls that characterize their music, moving from atmospheric moments to decidedly more robust sounds, in a mix of great emotional impact, to which the lead guitar of Valerio Villa also contributes (who appears as a guest in some songs: his solo in “Constellations Pt. is also wonderful, in particular. 1”). A track which, conceptually, also seems to us to be the one that comes closest to the themes of their first album “Aurora”, in which they talked about a journey into space, thus ideally closing the circle of their artistic production which began in 2020.
In short, continuing our observations on the fact that the songs are quite heterogeneous, we can say that, whether Stargenesis plays melodic rock as in “Imagination Theory” or metal as in “In The Belt”, they always succeed very well in their proposal because they undoubtedly have the ability to imprint their essence in their music regardless of genre: their art flows freely without needing to be too channeled into one sonic context rather than another. On the other hand, Vissani is a perfect mastermind, who takes care of everything down to the smallest detail, including the sounds (the performance of these is excellent, thanks also to the superb work of Daniele Ferretto, who took care of mixing and mastering) and Valeriano De Zordo is an extraordinary singer, very good and versatile, both when he is called upon to perform warm and expressive interpretations and when he has to launch into high notes with elusive peaks, as in the aforementioned “Imagination Theory”.
On the other hand, precisely because of this expressive heterogeneity, “Roses In Space” risks being an album which, to be fully appreciated in its entirety, seems to be inevitably destined for listeners who have a similar openness and predisposition towards this type of approach, unless you opt to use the songs as singles – which, however, in our opinion would make you lose something compared to the quality and the great care and refinement that we find throughout the full-length.
Regardless, it is certainly an interesting album, characterized by several moments of extraordinary beauty, which certainly deserves attention.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM