- WORK IN PROGRESS - REVIEWS:
One of the best live CDs ever heard from a prog group and one of
the top releases for 2001.
Steve Hegede, Zoltan's Progressive Rock Webpage, USA
'Work In Progress' is an album of fine progressive fusion that is
complex and convoluted yet, at the same time, is highly melodic
and easily assimilated.
Marisa Hill, New Horizons, UK
What's even better the sound of the album is impressively solid
and huge, and the drummer Alberto De Grandis' razor-sharp talent
sends the band into a spiraling attack just as quickly as into a
jazzy improvisation, while his bandmates challenge each other in
a frenzied flurry of notes that spell "quality" at every step. Those
who were at NEARFest that day better be grateful; they got to see
and hear something that most people spend their entire lives waiting
for.
Marcelo Silveyra, ProgFreaks, Mexico
What a brilliant album! Epic and sophisticated. With their complex
progressive rock DFA unite old schooled 70's bands with modern sounds
and jazz influences to a very own sound.
Thorsten Gürntke, Progressive Rock Pages, Germany
DFA's music really tends to burst out of your speakers, due to the
fantastic songs, with lots of changing moods, surprising breaks
and multiple changes in pace.
Piet Michem, Prog-Nose, Belgium
Phenomenal. The strong and steadily thumping bass pulses from
the speakers like the blips of electronic light on a heart monitor,
in this case indicating definite signs of new musical life. Streams
of synthesizer and dancing keyboards quickly join in. Muscular guitar
notes ring out above it all. The steady beat of drums then joins
the sonic party, rounding things out and creating a cacophony of
sound. A live masterpiece.
Progressive Ears, USA
DFA plays a modern explosive symphonic fusion with incredibly tight
playing, that draws on many elements to produce a dynamic sound
that can be blistering symphonic one minute and quiet and spacey
the next. While they can easily blow you away with their intense
sound, their excellent compositional skills and sense of dynamics
always keeps the music fresh with plenty of breathing room. DFA
are one of the brightest stars shining in today's murky progressive
scene. While great on their studio albums, this band is especially
at home in the live element and this performance is certainly indicative
of that. 5 stars.
Mike Prete, The Giant Progweed, USA
Smoking live set recorded at Nearfest 2000. Anyone who was in attendance
witnessed one of the hottest prog bands around. A complex blend
of Gentle Giant influenced prog laced with long, long jazz rock
heavy instrumental passages.
Ken Golden, Laser's Edge, USA
Utterly fantastic mostly instrumental jazz/rock fusion from one
of the current top bands out of Italy. Highly recommended!
Richard Stockwell, Cranium Music, New Zealand
A wonderful new promising 4 piece Italian band that combines
classic prog with modern touches, ranging from symphonic, complex
to jazzy interludes and adding some tasty spacey moments.
Ron Fuchs, ProgNaut, USA
Damn good music, brilliantly executed!
Lucio Mazzi, RoxyWeb, Italy
Phenomenal!
Chad Hutchinson, NearFest , USA
Top league progressive rock/fusion band. And Alberto De Grandis
shows us what an incredibly damn good drummer he is!
Tore Røsbjørgen, Mr. Blues' Train World Of Music, Norway
Their material is a mostly instrumental mixture of complex yet beautifully
melodic progressive rock and hypnotic jazz rock/fusion, with Alan
Holdsworth and U.K. influences. Their instrumentation is impressive
but not overwhelming, and complex but not inaccessible.
Mark Bredius, Planet Itchy, USA
An hour of truly breathtaking prog-fusion, jaw-droppingly delivered.
Glitzycape, UK
Cascades of complex and intricate musical puzzles, seemingly
endless changes of themes, moods, tempos, time signatures, tonal
and atonal moves, long and short, but always enjoyable and virtuoso
solos, with a wonderful work by the chef in the kitchen with all
those dishes-plates-cymbals and all amazingly diverse toys prepared
by Alberto De Grandis with a scorching drumfire. Impressive. A live
masterpiece. 5 1/2 stars
Vitalij Menshnikov, Progressor, Uzbekistan/Russia
Great energy. Great music. Great album.
Magne Røskaft, Some Progressive Rock From Norway, Norway
Superb live album from DFA, one of the best progressive fusion bands
heard in quite some time.
Tim & Terri, Stone Premonitions/Alchemical Radio, UK
DFA absolutely kicked ass with this live CD. The two stars are the
keyboardist, Maestro Alberto Bonomi, who was all over the place,
and the drummer, Alberto De Grandis, who pretty well ran a clinic
on how to play. Often, while executing all this whirlwind activity
on the drum set, he'd be singing at the same time, which is an almost
ridiculous display of talent.
Sean McFee, Gnosis, Canada
¡ Fuera de lo común! Extraordinary!
Felix Alonso "Jaco", Escena Rock, Spain
Sophisticated, complex music served by supreme musicianship - this
is a live album to judge others by.
Aymeric Leroy, Calyx/Big Bang, France
A killer live album!
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