Trip(Italy)
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review by thomas

Another album based on the Atlantis myth, although Trip seems to concentrate more on the question of its demise. Trip where at the time a trio of keyboards, drums and bass and they sang in English – apparently the bass player was an Englishman – though their song titles are in Italian. The band members seem to be very good at what they are doing but the music seems undeveloped in some ways to me. The record is only about 29 minutes long, and when they had about 22 minutes of music (the following reconstruction of events is just mere speculation from my side) they were considered done or had no more ideas. This is when the drummer stepped forward and cracked the brilliant idea: “I know! I can do my patented standard drum-solo for some minutes, then we at least have half an hour of music and we can with peace of mind release it!” Well, it could very well have happened like this. The music is dominated by the keyboards and has some things in common with Le Orme. Strong keyboards alone don’t make an album, neither do great ideas and themes on paper left half-finished on record, like they were in some kind of hurry. This could have been so much better, but “Atlantide” is at least a decent record.