These musicians know how to play and a tremendous amount of work has That the listener needs to pay attention. Operatic (tenor and soprano) and traditional vocals all done very well. Ana Torres Fraile andįrancesco Festi with their strong soprano vpice give each other changeable singing duels. This band are the vocals performed by Ana Torres Fraile and various male performers. Strange ritual chants, under laid by electronic sound waves, greet you right at theīeginning, before one of these typical Magma-esque choral chants begins. Magus" has also the participation of an amount of male singers, more properly six, as guest artists.Īs is usual, on "The Magus" the band combines a number of styles under the Zeuhl umbrella, such as jazz, classical, The album is Ana Torres Fraile (vocals), Daniele Valle (guitar), Fabrizio Mattuzzi (keyboards and electric piano),Īntonio Fedeli (saxophone), Yanik Lorenzo Andreatta (bass) and Uto Giorgio Golin (drums and percussion).
So, "The Magus" is the second studio album of Universal Totem Orchestra that was released in 2008. With "Mathematical Mother", the band maintains the quality, peculiarity and their
"The Magus" was very welcomed by the critics, to the point of receiving the "Darwin Prize for "Rituale Alieno" was a very successful album both in Italy and in the worldwide Universal Totem Orchestra released three studio albums until now, "Rituale Alieno" in 1999, "The Magus" in 2008Īnd "Mathematical Mother" in 2016. Totem Orchestra they mix this with a gamut influences ranging from the symphonic prog rock to world music, jazz, Totem, Universal Totem Orchestra have their roots in a rather guitar heavy version of Zeuhl. Torres Fraile, who also collaborated with Runaway Totem, and a large group of guest musicians. Their compatriots Runaway Totem not only by their name, but also by the fact that the drummer Uto Giorgio GolinĪnd the bassist Dauno Giuseppe Buttiglione were members of that band too. The band was founded in 1997 and is connected to Universal Totem Orchestra is an Italian progressive rock band. :::: Bio written By Hugues Chantraine, Belgium :::: No doubt, that someday the offshoot will overtake its dry genitor. While remaining firmly in the Zeuhl domain, UTO is not afraid to take many meanders as possible to make their music a different experience in that field. And while fairly different in its line-up, but with some substantial sonic differences, The Magus is just as incredible and stupendous an album as Rituale Alieno was. However, there is a gothic side to UTO, in great part due to the vocals, which range from the Gregorian chants to other choirs and operatic vocals, often soprano female and male baritoneĪnd another big surprise came to us, when the side-project was given a little sister some 7 years after, just as someone might have thought the offshoot dead. Where RT was dry, square, heavy, uninventive and uninspired, UTO's Rituale Alieno is much lighter, fun, even a tad inventive, and enthralling. As Runaway Totem is generally not regarded as Zeuhl leading band, often gathering unfavourable critics by specialist and buyers, it was somewhat surprising that UTO 's sole album Rituale Alieno was such a success (relatively speaking). Universal Totem Orchestra is an offshoot project from the Italian Zeuhl band RUNAWAY TOTEM and this album appeared between their second Zed and the third album Andromeda.
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