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'Something
Different' is the debut solo album from Twinspirits bass player Alberto
Rigoni and unlike this years Bassinvaders album, Rigoni has stuck to a
band formula that does include guitars and on two tracks even some vocals.
With Twinspirits
being a progressive rock band Rigoni as the title suggests, with this
album he’s decided to go for 'Something Different'. The album still
has a hint of Progressiveness about it, but it's less obvious and this
brings into the equation Rigoni’s more Melodic/AOR side, the result of
which is a great debut solo release.
‘The Factory’
gets things underway with it’s flowing bass and keyboard intro leading
nicely as the track builds into a virtual bass frenzy with Rigoni showing
how good the bass can be. With the guitars of Tommy Ermolli barely
there in the background although not so far as to be inaudible, but rather
just far enough in the mix to let the bass shine through, before they
really come the forefront as the track meanders between bass and guitar,
with a few keyboard flurries courtesy of Lorenzo Nizzolini. The album
differs so much from the aforementioned Bassinvaders album, which was in
principle a great idea but you need some guitars to form the bridges
between the bass parts and Rigoni has hit the nail right on the head from
the word go.
Things continue
to impress with ‘Trying To Forget’, which gets underway with some reverb
bass tones and gentle guitars before eventually building on the bass with
some mellow keys and guitars to envelope this very moving yet haunting
melody.
Things pick up
once more with the Melodic tones of ‘Glory Of Life’, another one where the
guitars and bass interactions are great with the bass being the main stay
and again with Nizzolini’s keyboards adding the catalyst that holds things
together.
‘SMS’ is one of
the highlights of the album for me as the mix of electro funk and
traditional rock are fused together in perfect harmony. This one acts as a
type of intro into the first of the vocal tracks ‘BASSex’ with the
seductive tones of Irene Ermolli adding a touch of sexual fantasy into
this already hormone charged Gothic style song and it's this that makes it
my personal favourite track on the album.
After 'BASSex'
you almost need a cigarette and Rigoni provides the perfect mellow out
piece in the form of ‘One Moment Before’.
Then it’s time
for the second of the vocals tracks the totally rocking hard edged ‘Roller
Coaster’ with Daniele Conte providing the gritty vocals to this beast of
a rocker as this monster really gets the blood pumping, from the soaring
guitars of Tommy Ermolli right to the thumping bass of Rigoni.
The album takes
another twist on the tempo front with the eerie almost dark ‘Dessert
Break’ before the even more twisted feel of ‘Jammin` On Vocal Drums',
which mixed a little Latino guitar with the bass and all goes to give this
one that darkened smoky backroom jam session about it.
The album closes
with the gentle ‘Sweet Tears’, which rounds off a great debut and shows
that a bass player can have more than four strings to his bow. |
