Age of Fragility is the second solo album from innovative Italian guitarist and songwriter Marco Mattei. This genre-defying work blends world beat, progressive rock, and art rock, offering a rich sonic tapestry that explores the delicate realities of modern life.

Marco recorded the album in Dreamland Recording Studios in Woodstock, NY with Duilio Galioto (keys) and the classic Peter Gabriel rhythm section featuring drummer Jerry Marotta and bassist Tony Levin. Guest appearances on the album include Tony’s former King Crimson bandmate Trey Gunn and spoken word from Jennifer Maidman (David Sylvian, Boy George).

At its core, Age of Fragility is a concept album that examines themes of isolation, indifference, emotional dependency, fragile relationships, self sabotage, and depression. Through evocative storytelling and poignant lyricism, Mattei paints a vivid portrait of the complexities of the human experience, making this album a deeply introspective and thought provoking journey.

This album is dedicated to all people struggling to fit in today’s society.

1. Just Tired [7:52]
2. You Don’t Deserve It [3:39]
3. Human Again [3:42]
4. Wrong [3:29]
5. Insomnia [5:25]
6. A Trick of the Mind [4:49]
7. Watermark in My Heart [3:04]
8. So Fragile [4:22]
9. End of the Line [6:01]
10. Just Tired (Extended Version) [11:09]

This wondrously creative, wholly impassioned new recording opens on the romantically-hued hipsway of Just Tired and the veritably shimmering You Don’t Deserve It, and then we get brought forth the emboldened Human Again, the melodious Wrong and the shimmering Insomnia.

Along next is the low slung prog number A Trick of the Mind and the stoic ambiance of Watermark in My Heart and they are both in turn followed seamlessly by the passionately-imbibed smoothness of So Fragile, the set rounding out on the rhythmically empowered End of the Line, coming to a mighty fine close on a sumptuously extended 11 minute cut of Just Tired (Extended Version).

All tracks written by Marco Mattei, except for “So Fragile”, by Marco Mattei and Duilio Galioto.

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