Vieux Carré is an Italian prog band from Spoleto (Umbria) formed by five skilled musicians with a jazz background: Alessandro Bartolucci (piano, minimoog, keyboards), Federico Barbieri (drums), Filippo Zelli (guitars), Marco Rambaldi (vocals) and Nicola Palladino (bass). The band began life in 2003 under the name Chiaroscuro and a first demo featuring four original tracks and two Genesis covers (‘Firth Of Fifth’ and ‘Musical Box’) was released. In 2005 the name of the band was changed into Vieux Carre’ and a first self- produced full length album was released, ‘Glispiriti, icorpi elementi’ (although the title has an ambiguous spelling it could be translated as ‘the spirits, the bodies and the minds’). Well, the overall sound has been influenced by progressive bands such as Genesis, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso and PFM, but the musicians managed to add their own touch of originality writing lyrics and music inspired by literature, cinema and history.

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Disponibili i due CD della band umbra VIEUX CARRE’, con un sound vicino a Genesis, Banco, PFM, non privo di una propria originalità e una pregevole poetica, con brani e liriche ispirati a letteratura, cinema e storia