I have heard their fine debut album but this album #4 is a better and more original effort. I’m delighted about the variety in the compositions, the use of a lot of different Italian singers (especially the opera-like vocalist sounds great, a matter of taste), the wonderful vintage keyboard sound (Mellotron, Moog), the splendid and alternating guitar play (acoustic, Spanish, metal, wah-wah, some sensitive soli and howling soli) and beautiful work on the violin. The 25 tracks are varied and dynamic, only at some moments a bit too fragmentic or too many ideas after each other. But in general this CD is an impressive progressive piece, the subtitle "A barock opera" fits perfect to the music. It will not everybody’s cup of tea but (it’s not really mainstream) but this prog taste like adventure and progress! WONDERFUL!
Erik Neuteboom – from Background Magazine
Le ultime da Hybla act 1 Review
Andrea Parentin from Prog Archives
In my opinion this is one of the best albums of the present Italian Progressive scene and an essential one in every
Daniele Cutali, Movimenti Prog
[...] è evidente un'iniezione di “arti & mestieri style” sulla caratteristica voce di Randone e sulle melodie marchio di fabbrica dei Randone
review from Conor Fynes (Prog Archives)
Staying in check with the typical album-length ‘suite,’ which Randone first explored in ‘Nuvole Di Ieri,’ ‘Hybla’ takes a massive amount of
Peter Patti, Writer
...] I always hear nothing but great tunes playing a Randone CD, but HYBLA - Atto 1 ("A barock opera") is surely
Peppe Di Spirito, Arlequins
[...] La storia di questa terra è narrata musicalmente in questo cd, con una fluidità che colpisce immediatamente. Strutturato come una lunga