Riccardo Vernaccini - "...At Last!" Review

Artist/ Band: Riccardo Vernaccini
Title: ...At LAst!
Label: Self release
Year of Release: 2005
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The Review:

Wow, I must admit to being very surprised to get a copy of “..At Last!” by Italian guitar player, Riccardo Vernaccini I was honestly fearing that it was going to be yet another mindless ‘see how fast I can play” shredfest and upon listing to it, I found it to be a very nice and enjoyable mixture of hard & progressive rock and jazz styles.

Most of the songs on this instrumental album are straightforward with slight sprinkling of progressive and jazz music to give it an above the norm feel of most hard rock instrumental albums Another thing is on this album, Riccardo does every instrument like guitar, bass, keyboards with drum programming. Normally I’m turned off by programmed drums but it really fits the music perfectly. One can only imagine how a ‘real’ drummer would sound. Also I would think he’d make a bolder statement by bringing in other musicians to flesh out his musical ideas. Other than that this is one of the better guitar driven instrumental albums I’ve heard in years.

I’d recommend it to fans of Allan Holdsworth, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and so many others . I really think Riccardo is on the verge of a promising recording future and I’m glad to have been able to hear his music before (here comes the hype) he becomes a world-wide guitar legend!

Reviewed by Ron Fuchs on June 15th, 2006

Tracks:

01. Blind date

02. Endless journey

03. Worlds apart

04. Strange combination

05. Another one

06. Dreamtime

07. Mess in the farm

08. Hard to explain

09. Walking beneath the moon

10. Just on time

11. Secret side

12. Run for cover

Reviewed Discography

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