Moongarden - Biography
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Biography
The band was born at the beginning of the 90's, with a demo containing a few songs written and arranged by Cristiano Roversi and David Cremoni, that the Italian label Mellow Records shortly after released as the first Moongarden album, named Moonsadness. A few months later, Cris and David recorded with a different line up two covers for the first Italian tribute to Genesis, entitled The River of Constant Change.
The chance of working on a full length album came with the Brainstorm of Emptyness sessions. This is the second official release under Mellow Records, but in many ways the first real Moongarden one. This cd has also seen the arrive of Massimiliano Sorrentini on drums and Ricki Tonco on vocals. Moreover, during this period, the band published a cover called There Will be Time by Osanna for the 70's Italian Progressive tribute album Zarathustra's Revenge (1997). After that, Moongarden went through a long period of inactivity, due to several personal troubles, and it took more than 4 years before Cristiano decided to start working hard on new material, actually giving new life to the project. Luca Palleschi joined the band as the new official vocalist, and a few months later the new album was ready. The Gates of Omega, the third Moongarden official release, represents probably the most complex and mature work produced by the band, and has obtained enthusiastic comments by both audience and critics.
Further to this last publication, Moongarden have finally set the basis for a more intense musical activity: a successful series of concerts and live performances around Europe, a new label, Galileo records, and the fourth album Round Midnight (2004). After that, Max Sorrentini and Luca both left the band in 2005 for human and artistic divergences. After a year Moongarden finally had a new line up with the singer Simone Baldini Tosi (he was the singer of the first album Moonsadness) and the drummer Maurizio Di Tollo. In the early 2008 Moongarden released the album Songs from the Lighthouse, with the outstanding artwork of the famous cover artist Ed Unitsky. The album sold very well around the world so the band choose not to follow the usual "slowmotion" writing and production of music to speed up everything and start immediately the building of a new album scheduled to be release in February 2009. In November '08 guitar player Marco Tafelli left the band and was replaced by the original former member and very talented musician David Cremoni.
On January 2009, founder member Cristiano Roversi and Gigi Cavalli Cocchi (Mangala Vallis, CSI etc...) founded the indipendent label DISTILLERIA Music Factory and Moongarden was immediately signed up side by side with their "brothers" Mangala Vallis. In April 2009 the band released the official sixth studio album called A Vulgar Display of Prog that saw as well the arrival of Gigi Cavalli Cocchi on drums.
The chance of working on a full length album came with the Brainstorm of Emptyness sessions. This is the second official release under Mellow Records, but in many ways the first real Moongarden one. This cd has also seen the arrive of Massimiliano Sorrentini on drums and Ricki Tonco on vocals. Moreover, during this period, the band published a cover called There Will be Time by Osanna for the 70's Italian Progressive tribute album Zarathustra's Revenge (1997). After that, Moongarden went through a long period of inactivity, due to several personal troubles, and it took more than 4 years before Cristiano decided to start working hard on new material, actually giving new life to the project. Luca Palleschi joined the band as the new official vocalist, and a few months later the new album was ready. The Gates of Omega, the third Moongarden official release, represents probably the most complex and mature work produced by the band, and has obtained enthusiastic comments by both audience and critics.
Further to this last publication, Moongarden have finally set the basis for a more intense musical activity: a successful series of concerts and live performances around Europe, a new label, Galileo records, and the fourth album Round Midnight (2004). After that, Max Sorrentini and Luca both left the band in 2005 for human and artistic divergences. After a year Moongarden finally had a new line up with the singer Simone Baldini Tosi (he was the singer of the first album Moonsadness) and the drummer Maurizio Di Tollo. In the early 2008 Moongarden released the album Songs from the Lighthouse, with the outstanding artwork of the famous cover artist Ed Unitsky. The album sold very well around the world so the band choose not to follow the usual "slowmotion" writing and production of music to speed up everything and start immediately the building of a new album scheduled to be release in February 2009. In November '08 guitar player Marco Tafelli left the band and was replaced by the original former member and very talented musician David Cremoni.
On January 2009, founder member Cristiano Roversi and Gigi Cavalli Cocchi (Mangala Vallis, CSI etc...) founded the indipendent label DISTILLERIA Music Factory and Moongarden was immediately signed up side by side with their "brothers" Mangala Vallis. In April 2009 the band released the official sixth studio album called A Vulgar Display of Prog that saw as well the arrival of Gigi Cavalli Cocchi on drums.