Jet Lag by Premiata Forneria Marconi

Beautiful from the intro to the last track Jet Lag by Premiata Forneria Marconi, from 1977, the only one with violinist Greg Bloch who replaced Mauro Pagani who had left the band that same year.

With this album, PFM approaches jazz-rock and fusion, moving away from the initial progressive rock sound, though prog sonorities are still present and will continue in the following albums.

The band's performance skills remain outstanding and the compositions continue to be complex; it contains three instrumental tracks, four sung in English and one sung in Italian, “Cerco la lingua”, and it is fundamentally a jazz-rock album that amazes both technically and compositionally, thanks to the skill and passion of the band, the unique voice of Lanzetti who came from Acqua Fragile and his voice, much criticized at the time, I like very much.

Some notes on the tracks:
- Jet Lag, the title track, has a great vocal part and great keyboards with beautiful interplay between guitar, keyboards, and violin.
- Peninsula with a great instrumental performance by the whole band.

- Left Handed Theory with great keyboards and excellent electric piano solos, great rhythm section.
- Among others, the track Storia in La is beautiful, complex, and very impactful.

A moment of transition in PFM's discography, marking the end of their prog period and the beginning of a new phase, there is more jazz than in any other PFM album. Beautiful.

Tracklist

1. Peninsula (2:35)
2. Jet Lag (9:10)
3. Storia in "LA" (6:26)
4. Breakin In (4:10)
5. Cerco La Lingua (5:33)
6. Meridiani (5:57)
7. Left-Handed Theory (4:13)
8. Traveler (5:46)

Duration 43:50

LineUp

- Bernardo Lanzetti - vocals, percussion
- Franco Mussida - electric and acoustic classical guitars
- Flavio Premoli - electric piano, Pari organ, Micromoog
- Gregory Bloch - electric and acoustic violins
- Jan Patrick Djivas - fretless bass, Moog B12
- Franz Di Cioccio - drums, wooden percussion

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