A choral, ambitious and thoughtful album for the flagship band from Abruzzo of the American MRR.
A seventh work of polyphonic and contemporary prog-rock
MMXX: the return of Ifosounds!
«MMXX is a very ambitious album, a step forward in our history artistic.
We made our music coexist with choral music, one music ancient but exciting and very modern in spirit.
The composition of the suite, in particular, required considerable study and subsequent particular effort to fit the rock arrangements with the harmonies of a polyphonic choir”. Ifsounds are proud of the release of MMXX, their seventh album. The new piece of a long history, which began in 1993 with the foundation and with the first album in 2006, and today it has reached a work, as underlined by the band from Abruzzo, ambitious and demanding. The historic American label Melodic Revolution Records, led by Nick Katona, has confirmed its support for Ifsounds, who, five years after the popular An Gorta Mór, return with a job again conceptual, focused on contemporary dramas. Starting from what remains of the pandemic. Lockdown inspired Ifsounds to search for an evocative vehicle relationality and contact with others. A contact lost for health reasons e reconstructed in music also through chorality: «The pandemic has upset the our lives, questioning all aspects of our existences, too the most banal. Today it all seems to be in the past and I’m partly noticing a certain trend to remove from the mind the sensations experienced during those two nightmare years, but I think that was the most absurd, alienating and overall period dystopian experienced by our generation. For this reason we have decided to put the sensations and fears of those days into music and words, which have influenced our daily actions in such a dramatic way that have irreversibly changed our world and ourselves. And we have it done through choral music, the genre that, by definition, requires the closer contact between the people we had already lost.” Since the time of the first album, going through albums from time to time they showed the evolution of the band led by Dario Lastella, Ifsounds they tried to distance themselves from the classic canons of progressive rock for interpret it in a different key, actually considering it a “way of doing things things”. And once again, Italian progressive rock enjoys wide credit abroad: «For us, the attitude towards music and research is progressive, which is declines in the fusion of various genres to color the sensations we want convey: progressive rock is not a genre, but a way of playing, ranging between rock, jazz, classical, electronic, with an eye to great music of the past to be preserved and evolved into new languages.
Italians play well and they know it all over the world except in Italy!
