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Studio Album, released in 1970, Italy.

Debuut album van deze Italiaanse spychedelic/spacerock formatie.
Doet soms wel aan Jefferson Airplane denken.

English female vocals on this italian band who performs a elaborate psychedelic music that switches from soft moods to rapid passages, sometimes having a little folkish influence. It might cause weirdness at the first time, but it kind of grows on you as you get used to their sound. 

One of Italy"s early prog favourite of mine C2K"s self-titled debut album is an outstanding piece of dream psych prog. The quartet (guitar trio plus the superb- sounding Aliotta singing) developed a great form of psychedelic prog, that can serve as the perfect example between psychedelic rock and pure prog rock, without sounding too much like most of the 60"s groups and the basic cheap psych artwork doesn"t do justice to the music on the album.

Aliotta"s voice is cross of Grace Slick and David Surkamp (of Pavlov"s Dog), creating a bit a timbre and delivery between Madeleine Bell (Stones The Crow), Janita Haan (Babe Ruth) and Sonja Christina (Curved Air), but unlike the latter two, Sylvana can not only sing very well, but charm the hell out of us, singing in a fair English some proggy occult lyrics. But she"s hardly alone in the group and Quartarone is an excellent guitarist, not afraid to use his fuzz box at good use, while drummer Lo Previte is shinning throughout the whole album (he will play in jazz-rock group Duello Madre) and Bianco"s bass filling much of the gap when the other two compadres are running up and down all over the fretboards and toms. Some additional but un-credited flute (on I Just Can"t Stay) and the odd sitar complete an album that does perfectly well without the slightest trace of keyboards.

A short album, but indeed a real classic, all to sadly overlooked by progheads because of the lack of extended musical interplay, but I urge them to reconsider this album. Barely missing the flawless, this album is easily an essential piece of progdom, even comparing to their better-esteemed follow-up. 


Songs / Tracks Listing

01. Can"t Believe - 02:34
02. Just Can"t Stay - 02:29
03. Magic Beam - 02:05
04. Must Walk Forever - 03:51
05. I Am The Witch - 3:24
06. Try To Live - 03:40
07. The Lord, He Has No Hands - 03:42 
08. Sun Will Shine - 01:54
09. While You"re Sleeping - 02:48
10. Try All Day - 02:33

Bonustracks:
11. Pioggia Sottile - 02:37
12.  IO, La Strega - 03:20

Total Time: 35:15

Line-up / Musicians

- Silvana Aliotta / vocals
- Marcello "Spooky" Quartarone / vocals, guitars
- Gianni Bianco / guitar, bass
- Johnny Betti / drums
- Franco "Dede" Lo Previte / drums