This is the second solo album (among other works and collaborations) for the Italian bassist Alberto Rigoni, following Something Different of 2008. This too progresses in progressive/fusion forms, just like the previous one and as most things the virtuoso from Treviso has done.

The average rock-fan is used to ccomprehend bass guitar as an accompanying instrument, rhythmic in its essence. At most one would expect specific musicians to bring it more forward, but always second to the guitars or vocals in a song.

In Rigoni’s case, this is not the case since bass is the centre of the musical approach for him. Moreover, in Rigoni’s music there is one more particularity to be noted. Rigoni is not the musician who will try to appeal to the listener with his extravagant skills and dexterities. Not that he lacks compared to the best. Far from it. His musical and performing abilities and dexterities, sit comfortably right on the top. However, he makes sure that his music is “human”, easy to conceive and agreeable by most. And while he stretches out to those fans that tend to prefer something “difficult” and highly progressive and different, in reality he can be appreciated by many more, even by those who are indifferent or objective to virtuosity and the genre he serves. Besides, he never neglects to include a couple of “normal” songs into his albums and those blend in quite nicely to the general ambience of his music.

His compositions are sweet, gentle and relaxing, quite comprehensive and the tracks special and distinctive, the music ambience is soothing and the lyricism he achieves on a tough instrument (when trying to move to the very centre) is surprising to say the least. The performance is exquisite, almost in a different level of itself while the collaborating musicians are top of the crop (Gavin Harrison – Porcupine Tree, John Macaluso – Ark/Y. Malmsteen and Yves Carbonne among others).

Therefore, go on and get a taste of what Alberto Rigoni has to offer with this second solo album of his and also through his other work and discover how a rhythmic instrument can be transformed into a deeply emotional medium.