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.

ZARATHUSTRA
The Rosenbach Museum formed in the early 70s by performing Jethro Tull , Genesis and King Crimson’s repertoire. The group, composed of Stefano "Lupo" Galifi (voice) , Giancarlo Golzi (drums), Alberto Moreno (bass and piano), Enzo Merogno (guitar) and Pierluigi "Pit " Corradi (keyboards), recorded in 1973 for Ricordi “Zarathustra,” considered a landmark of symphonic and "progressive" Italian rock. The concept behind the album is Nietzsche’s book "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," in which the old prophet exhorts mankind to abandon its errors and violence to consider life as a joyful appearance in substantial harmony with the natural environment. The record was successful with audiences and critics alike thanks to an effective fusion of Latin sounds and the compositional architecture from England. Rosenbach Museum participated in June 1973 at the Festival of New Trends of Naples, but the following year its members decide to terminate their musical experience and follow different professional paths. In 1982, "Zarathustra" was reissued on CD in Japan while the vinyl version became a cult disc for collectors. In the early 90s, the bass player and founder of Rosenbach Museum, Alberto Moreno, proposed Giancarlo Golzi another partnership, made up of completely new material. Merogno, Galifi, and Corradi did not adhere to this initiative. In 1999, with Marco Balbo on guitar, Andrew Marioluca on keyboards and Bariona Bianchieri on voice, Rosenbach Museum produced EXIT, a concept album where there are seemingly isolated family stories, personal moments of existence not as epic as that of Zarathustra, but daily experiences of an ordinary man. In 2002, the group accepted the proposal of the Finnish magazine "Colossus" to participate in the translation of the northern rock poem music Kalevala. With the same formation adopted for EXIT, the group produced "Fiore di Vendetta," which tells a dark tale of war between brothers. In 2012, Moreno, Golzi and Galifi decided to come back on stage to perform “Zarathustra.” Enzo Merogno and Pierluigi Corradi did not participate in the project and new musicians were called to enrich the original group and bring to life the same suggestions evoked in the 1973 album.