Biografia


1991 Three guys from Verona, Italy (Alberto De Grandis, Luca Baldassari and Roberto Tommasini) decide to put together a band.
1992 The newly born band writes the first songs mainly based on De Grandis ideas.
1993 Silvio Minella joins the band. The sound evolves and they pursue more ambitious goals.
1994 The band strives to more complex compositions and feels the urge of presenting them live.
Encouraged by the first good reviews they decide to record a demotape.
1995 "Trip On Metrò" is recorded between April and May. Alberto Piras of Deus Ex Machina hears it and contacts the band to produce their first CD.
At the same time Tommasini leaves the group and his place is taken by Alberto Bonomi. The new line up rewrites the demo tracks.
The songs are completed with new inserts and their structures changes. Some vocal parts are introduced and vocal duties are shared between De Grandis and Bonomi.
1996 In January the band plays live for the first time with the new line-up.
In the meantime they define the last details with Piras to realize the album.
"La Via" is written in February and in April they start recording "Lavori In Corso".
"La sua Anima" is written during summer, and also most ideas of "Ragno" that will appear in the second work.
In september the band completes the recording sessions of "Lavori in corso" and by October the album is ready.
1997 "Lavori In Corso", presented live in a concert held in Verona on February 7, is the surprise of the year for its high quality level. The prog world starts wondering where do this group come from.
The band plays many gigs. To be mentioned the one in Bologna supporting "Banco del Mutuo Soccorso".
They also write some parts of "Esperanto" and by the end of the year a first version of "Caleidoscopio" is in the playlist.
1998 The band keeps playing live (in April with "Le Orme") and reaches the final stage of "Concorso Omaggio a Demetrio Stratos".
Mauro Moroni of Mellow Records contacts the group to produce a second work.
From September onward, they concentrate solely on the making of the new album.
1999 They finish composing all the tracks that will appear on the new album.
The recording sessions take place in June. "Duty Free Area" is released in October getting critical and public success, ending up on a lot of prog fans' "Best of '99" lists.
2000

A few Italian gigs, then a flight to U.S.A. to to play at NEARfest where their performance is highly appreciated by the crowd who grants them applauses and standing ovations. D.F.A. are considered the great surprise of the festival.
NEARFest is the last great effort of the year. D.F.A. decide to rest for a while after years of hard work.

2001

As a closing mark on such an important period in the band's life, DFA decide to release a live album from the recordings of their NEARFest performance.They also move to another label: in June 2001 "Work in Progress live" is released on Moonjune Records, New York.
In the same month the band plays at PROG'SUD (Marseille) where their performance is considered "The Concert" of the festival and in December another european experience, they play at the GERMANY JAM.

2002

In March the band flies again to America for a short tour and to partecipate to Mexicali's BAJA PROG.