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
Peter Patti, Writer
...] I always hear nothing but great tunes playing a Randone CD, but HYBLA - Atto 1 ("A barock opera") is surely
Vitaly Menshikov, Progressor
...A work of the highest progressive standards, "Hybla Act I" is a brilliant thing, pure magic, from beginning to end strongly keeping
review from Tarcisio Moura
I was quite caught by surprise by this opera rock. Usually I don´t like concept albums that much. They tend to concentrade
Raymond Serini, Harmonie
[...] Tout Hybla est empreint d’une force créatrice peu commune avec un maximum de temps forts et des changements d’univers constants qui
Michelangelo Barbagallo , La Sicilia
[...] Hybla, storia di miseria e nobiltà nelle strade: stasera in piazza duomo l'opera musicale del gruppo di Randone