Legendary Italian prog ensemble Acqua Fragile, fifty years after the first album by the same name in 1973, comes out with a brand new work, an album with totally original songs, entitled Moving Fragments.

Confirming the salient characteristics of A F style – vocal harmonies, odd tempo signatures, romanticism, aggression, theatricality, and research – some new features and significant developments embellish this new album.

The three original members of the band Piero Canavera (drums, percussion and vocals), Franz Dondi (bass), Bernardo Lanzetti (lead vocals, guitar and Glovox), are joined in by Stefano Pantaleoni (keyboards), Claudio Tuma (guitars) and the vocalist Rossella Volta, all previously together on stage in live adventures, over the past two years.

Nine songs of which five in English, one instrumental and three in Italian. Developing the mode experimented in Aqua Fragile’s previous work, “A New Chant”, released In 2017, there are numerous guest musicians including one British and one American.

In three songs, Bernardo Lanzetti’s creative motor is fueled by the contribution of keyboardist and composer Stefano Pantaleoni. The production is entrusted to Dario Mazzoli, already a partner of Lanzetti in various adventures in the recording studio, including his latest solo album “Horizontal Rain” (2021).

1. Her Shadows Torture (5:52)
2. White Horse On Dope (4:08)
3. Moving Fragments (3:03)
4. Malo Bravo (4:50)
5. IA - Intelligenza Artificiale (4:07)
6. Black Drone (3:52)
7. DD Danz (4:16)
8. Il Suono Della Voce (5:05)
9. Limerence Ethereal (5:58)

This diligently sculpted new recording opens on the all-encompassing, impassioned Her Shadows Torture and the rocker White Horse On Dope and they are followed by the swirling psych prog of the titular Moving Fragments, the lighter fare of the Italian-tongued Malo Bravo, and then we get the enraptured IA - Intelligenza Artificiale (where the vocalist Rossella has two short solo parts, as the song was written three years ago, before the topic became so every day).

Along next is the powerful Black Drone and the atmospheric, Hammond-hued DD Danz and they are in turn backed by the free flowing beauty Il Suono Della Voce, coming to a close on the mid-tempo reaching yearn found within Limerence Ethereal.

All guest musicians have militancy or knowledge of the Progressive Rock genre. The presence of Stef Burns who, in a concert with his Rock Trio, did positively strike Bernardo, is quite interesting. Of course, famous for his collaboration with Italian Big Star Vasco Rossi, Stef mentioned a previous period of research very close to Prog.

Musicians:
- Bernardo Lanzetti / lead vocals, guitar, Glovox
- Stefano Pantaleoni / keyboards
- Claudio Tuma / guitars
- Rossella Volta / vocals
- Franz Dondi / bass
- Piero Canavera / drums & percussion, vocals