New Trolls - Tempi Dispari Mlps (2 tracks) +Album Reviews

Seriously interesting italian 70's progressive rock

Ignaciocue | Mexico | 09/21/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"If you like seventie's jazz rock, long jams, prog, saxes, fender rhodes keyboard, fine wah guitars, get this CD at once."

Highest order musicianship

A. Dutkiewicz | 09/24/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I first came across New Trolls' Searching for a land 25 years ago. It knocked my socks off! Great musicianship, even if there was already a clash of directions between heavy metal and a more musical notion between the guitarist Nico di Palo and keyboard player Vittorio De Scalzi. In many ways it made that album really dynamic. Here the band is under the musical direction of De Scalzi. It's live, only two extended tracks. Sounds like, well, Soft Machine 7 meets the first Mahavishnu Orchestra. No vocals at all. It had my mind spinning for an hour afterwards. Absolutely brilliant playing."

Not widely known but a gem

A. Dutkiewicz | Norwood, South Australia Australia | 10/04/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"What a scorcher! It may be a short disc (just over 30 minutes) but it covers plenty of miles. This one is live and really wild, great playing by De Scalzi's more jazz-inclined and larger format band (see my review for NT Atomic System). It forgets the lyrics and just goes for the music, and it's really hot. Both extended arrangements are attributed to the whole band, whereas most of the credits on Atomic System were attributed to De Scalzi. The sounds are fairly typical of much jazz-rock or so-called "fusion" music of the time, with similarities with many of the prominent American and British bands of such inclination (If, Nucleus, Soft Machine, Weather Report, Return to Forever) and in my limited experience I think comparisons with Italy's Perigeo are also valid."

Amazing jazz rock/fusion!

BENJAMIN MILER | Veneta, Oregon | 07/12/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"1974's Tempi Dispari was the second (and final) album using the N.T. Atomic System name, from an era where the legality of the New Trolls name was still in dispute. Vittorio De Scalzi obviously wanting to continue on as New Trolls (but instead as N.T. Atomic System) with new musicians, and Nico Di Palo first recording with Frank Laugelli, Maurizio Salvi, and Gianni Bellano under their first names with the album Canti d'Innocenza Canti d'Esperienza in 1973 with the giant question mark on the cover, before being given the name Ibis (and recording two more albums with lineup changes under that name).

Tempi Dispari is so different from the previous N.T. Atomic System album that you'll totally mistake this for a totally different group using the same name. It's actually nothing like anything New Trolls of any incarnation had ever done, or ever repeated. For one thing, the 1973 N.T. Atomic System album was not unlike the more proggy moments of New Trolls' UT, but traditional progressive rock takes a back seat on Tempi Dispari for totally amazing jazz rock/fusion! I heard this album referred to as a disappointment and a failure, but I really can't see why! What, because they were expecting a revisit of the 1973 N.T. Atomic System album and instead got an all-instrumental fusion album? In fact this is perhaps one of the finest albums in this style I have ever heard! Saxophone, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond organ, guitars, bass, drums, and some synthesizer are used. The music is recorded live and improvised, but there isn't one dead or boring spot to be found! But you actually hear a theme from Concerto Grosso Per 1 pop up out of nowhere, and unsurprisingly the audience started cheering. That's the only real reminder, without looking at the cover and the disc, that this is New Trolls. This album comes with my highest recommendation, it's completely essential!"

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	New Trolls Tempi Dispari (Mlps) Genres: Pop, Rock Track Listings (2) - Disc #1 Lato 1 [Settequarti] Lato 2 [Trediciottavi] Japanese remastered reissue for the Italian progressive rock act, packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Grog Records. 2003.
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