 Marco Machera
 One Time, Somewhere
 Review by Grant Hill

Italian progressive music intrigues me, and while I cannot claim great expertise from much knowledge of the European progressive community, I can tell you this one thing for certain: Marco Machera is a very intriguing, insightful composer and performer. The album overall is a fusion of many, many styles, yet it truly ranks as progressive and it takes us musically in new directions. This isn’t recycled seventies prog, or even neo-prog in the strictest song-writing sense. But what Machera does is to take one on a true mind’s journey throughout the landscape of the album, including daily sounds and textures from modern life and incorporating them into the song experience of time, space, meter, and direction. Each listen will pull the receiver more inside the individual pieces, and should evoke some pretty complex feelings. I recommend this work! It’s different, enjoyable and may appeal to a very wide range of listeners.
This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2012 Volume 3 at lulu.com/strangesound.
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