Acqua Fragile

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Acqua Fragile
General information
origin Italy
Genre (s) Progressive rock
founding 1971, 2017
resolution 1975
Website http://acquafragile.altervista.org/
Founding members
Bernardo Lanzetti
guitar
 Gino Campanini
Piero Canavera
Current occupation
Vocals, keyboard , guitar
 Bernardo Lanzetti
Franz Dondi
Drums
 Piero Canavera
former members
singing
 Roby Facini
guitar
 Gino Campanini
Keyboard
 Maurizio Mori
Keyboard
 Joe Vescovi

Acqua Fragile is an Italian progressive rock band that was founded in Parma in 1971 and has been active again since 2017 after a break of more than 40 years.

Band history

After a long stay in the USA, Bernardo Lanzetti founded Acqua Fragile with Gino Campanini and Piero Canavera, with whom he had already played together as Gli Immortali. They were discovered under the old band name at a performance by Premiata Forneria Marconi and passed on to their manager. Franz Dondi and Maurizio Mori completed the band and in 1973 their self-titled debut album was released in Italy. It contained, unusual for an Italian band at the time, only English-language pieces, which were mainly compared with Genesis and Gentle Giant . The following year Mass Media Stars followed , from which a single was released and which was also released in the USA, but remained just as unsuccessful as the debut.

At the end of 1974 and the beginning of 1975 there were still changes in the line-up. B. Premiata Forneria Marconi for some time; however, the band soon broke up. In 2005 Franz Dondi started the Acqua Fragile Project in order to be able to perform pieces by Acqua Fragile live. The actual band got back together in 2017 to work with several guest musicians on the new album A New Chant .

Discography

  • 1973: Acqua Fragile
  • 1974: Mass Media Stars
  • 2017: A New Chant

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