Dec. 11 – “For me, the Museum is my first love. It ‘s the first group with whom I started playing and as the saying goes ‘a first love is never forgotten.'” Says drummer Giancarlo Golzi, one of the founders of Matia Bazar. Golzi is not talking about the band but of the Rosenbach Museum: a progressive rock Ligurian band born in 1971 in Bordighera. “This rock side of me is called Rosenbach Museum,” continues Golzi, a successful member of Matia Bazar, which continues to release records and hold concerts in Italy and abroad. The musician is now engaged in a new record and concert adventure: after some live and in studio experiments between 1999 and 2002, the Rosenbach Museum are returning this year with a new record. The album is called “Barbarica” (for the “Aereostella” label) and has been very well received in Europe and Japan, where the band held the record’s world premiere at the “Italian Progressive Rock Festival” in Tokyo. The title conjures up dramatic scenarios, dominated by instinctive violence that reverses any civilization to its primitive state of barbarism. The band – that sees Golzi (drums and percussion) accompany Andy Senis (bass), Stefano “Lupo” Galifi (vocals), Alberto Moreno (keyboards), Fabio Meggetto (keyboards), Sandro Libra and Max Borelli (guitar) – sings of a confused world. A world unable to grow in harmony with nature, torn by the demon of war. And after the warm welcome received in Japan, the band prepares to rock new stages across the border: in April, Rosenbach Museum will participate in the “Baja Prog Festival” in Mexicali, Mexico, while in the first months of 2014, the double CD “Live in Japan” will be released.
