Giant The Vine release “Music for Empty Places”

Between the progressive rock of the early 70s and the alternative rock of the end of the millennium, “Music for Empty Places”, the debut album of the Ligurian band GIANT THE VINE, takes shape.

The band was born around 2014, and goes through the usual changes of line-up necessary to identify affinities and build a personal sound with odd times, guitars arpeggios and suspensions of mellotron and piano, but also powerful riffs and emotional solos.

Not surprisingly, among the influences of the group we find Yes, Genesis and King Crimson together with Mogwai, Secret Machines, Riverside and Porcupine Tree.

Eight carefully crafted instrumental tracks, featuring two guitarists (Fabio Vrenna and Fulvio Solari) and a drummer (Daniele Riotti) who were joined by Marco Fabricci on bass and two keyboardists / pianists (Chico Schoen and Ilaria Vrenna), between tense electric progressions and ecstatic melancholy moments.

The main theme of the album is the absence.

Not only the absence of texts, with which to give voice to the ideas that Giant the Vine want to convey, in “Music for Empty Places” we talk about the absence of parents, which Fabio Vrenna lost within a few months during the recordings of the album (Past is Over), the absence of lost people (Lost People), and the absence, more generally, of someone who has just left leaving the lights on. Mark Hollis who passed away when the CD was in print, a case in point.

Giant the Vine stands for modern progressive rock (with seventies reminiscences) for a cinematic spleen of touching beauty.