For those unaware, Alex Carpani is an Italian-French composer, keyboardist, singer, producer, musicologist and artistic director. He graduated in DAMS (musicology) at the University of Bologna with a thesis on the music of Nino Rota in Fellini’s films that won the 1st prize of the Fellini Foundation.

He graduated at CET (a famous Italian music school) in composition and arrangement of music for films with Stelvio Cipriani, after having won a European Union scholarship that allowed him to attend the school. He has written and self-produced a great amount of instrumental music for more than 15 years: new age, electronic music, symphonic music, music mixed with poetry, drum’n’bass, electro-jazz, music for theatre shows and documentaries.

Since 2007 he has dedicated himself to rock, releasing 8 rock albums with Italian and foreign labels which had positive feedback with both audience and critics, allowing him to collaborate, in studio and live, with some well known musicians of the national and international scene, such as David Jackson of Van der Graaf Generator, David Cross of King Crimson, Theo Travis of Soft Machine, Jon Davison of Yes, Paul Whitehead, graphic designer of early Genesis, Aldo Tagliapietra of Le Orme, Bernardo Lanzetti of Acqua Fragile and PFM.

He has performed more than 140 concerts in 21 countries of 3 continents with his band, appearing in the most important live clubs and festivals of the international progressive rock field. He has founded the band Aerostation with Gigi Cavalli Cocchi (former drummer of Ligabue, Clan Destino, C.S.I.) releasing in 2018 the homonym debut album with Aerostella/Immaginifica label, performing concerts in Italy and abroad and opening for PFM at major events as well. Aerostation’s new album Rethink will be released in 2025.

His brand new solo album is entitled The Good Man and was released this past December 6th, 2024, via his own label Independent Artist Records, and I will allow Alex himself to explain what it is all about: “Musically, TGM is, perhaps, the album of my discography that most of all summarizes and represents my style and the genres in which I have expressed myself over the years: rock, prog, prog-metal, symphonic rock, symphonic music, electronic, ambient. The line-up also includes a mezzo-soprano singer, because the music has at times lyrical, almost cinematic characters.”

“The album consists of 2 suites of about 28 minutes each, each divided into 9 parts, so there are 18 tracks in all. The good man is a bit like a tiny paper boat floating, trying not to sink, in the ocean of life, between storms and gigantic waves, without ever knowing its final destination.”

1. Amnesiac (full version) [28:42]
2. Good And Evil (full version) [28:24]
3. Amnesiac part 1 On A Train [2:09]
4. Amnesiac part 2 Perfect Chaos [4:41]
5. Amnesiac part 3 Flashbacks [1:30]
6. Amnesiac part 4 The Edge Of My Mind [3:56]
7. Amnesiac part 5 Diamond In The Rough [1:55]
8. Amnesiac part 6 Past Life [3:12]
9. Amnesiac part 7 Heart Calling [2:51]
10. Amnesiac part 8 As Light Returns [4:02]
11. Amnesiac part 9 End Of The Day [4:20]
12. Good And Evil part 1 Lost Frequencies [1:07]
13. Good And Evil part 2 The Flow [3:53]
14. Good And Evil part 3 P.T.S.D. [3:32]
15. Good And Evil part 4 Stillness And Ecstasy [2:33]
16. Good And Evil part 5 Flirting With Darkness [3:39]
17. Good And Evil part 6 Mystical [5:51]
18. Good And Evil part 7 Leaving The Path [1:52]
19. Good And Evil part 8 Masquerade [2:42]
20. Good And Evil part 9 Everything Falls Into Place [3:09]

The album opens on the two full-length tracks at nearly half an hour each, the esoterically-sculpted Amnesiac (full version) and the jagged, static-charged, at first, latterly sweeping and prog-tastic Good And Evil, but then brings us their internal breakdowns: these open on the Eastern-imbibed, fuzzy ambiance of Amnesiac part 1 On A Train, the fervently driven part 2 Perfect Chaos, the atmospheric part 3, the all-embracing musical magnitude of part 4 The Edge Of My Mind, and then we get the veritably translucent part 5 Diamond In The Rough, the sweepingly orchestral prog of part 6 Past Life, the work rounding out on the ethereal part 7 Heart Calling, the prog-Celt vibed part 8 As Light Returns, closing on the AOR of part 9 End Of The Day.

The second work opens on the musical static nuances of Good And Evil part 1 Lost Frequencies and the free flowing melodies that drives part 2 The Flow, and they are in turn backed seamlessly by the hauntingly effervescent part 3 P.T.S.D., the impassioned sternness, initially, completely transcendent the next of part 4 Stillness And Ecstasy, the propellent rocker part 5 Flirting With Darkness, the work rounding out on the papal chanting, accompanied dutiful by the organ of part 6 Mystical, the powerful part 7 Leaving The Path, coming to a close on the mid-tempo, smoothly cultured jazz-prog of part 8 Masquerade and the drum led rock of part 9 Everything Falls Into Place.

The brand new album will be distributed for physical copies (digipak CD with 20-page booklet) by Pick-Up Records and on major digital platforms through Distrokid.

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Alex Carpani - The Good Man (Album Teaser)

Alex Carpani - Amnesiac part 2 Perfect Chaos [Official Listening Link]

Alex Carpani - Good And Evil part 5 Flirting With Darkness [Official Listening Link]

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