Giant The Vine is an instrumental progressive rock and post-rock band from Italy, known for their intricate and emotive soundscapes. Their latest album A Chair at the Backdoor was released on May 2023 on Luminol Records.
With lush instrumentation and soaring melodies, Giant The Vine creates a sonic journey that transports listeners to another world. Their unique blend of post-progressive and rock music has earned them a dedicated following around the world.
Featuring Antonio Lo Piparo on bass, Daniele Riotti on drums, Fulvio Solari on electric and acoustic guitars and lap steel, and Fabio Vrenna on keyboards, mellotron, electric and acoustic guitars, the music and arrangement of A Chair at the Backdoor is a breathtaking masterpiece that showcases the band’s creativity.
The album was recorded at Greenfog Studio by Mattia Cominotto and Gasoline Smell Studio by Fabio Vrenna, mixed by Mattia Cominotto at Greenfog Studio and mastered by Ronan Chris Murphy (King Crimson, Ulver, Aurora) at Veneto West Studio,
Giant the Vine were born in 2014, on the eastern Ligurian coast, when the two guitarists Fulvio Solari and Fabio Vrenna met and decided to arrange together the 12 songs already composed by Vrenna.
The name of the band mixes the word Giant, from Gentle Giant, with the Vine as a tribute to the pacifist ideal of One for the Vine by Genesis.
With the recordings of the first album, Music for Empty Places (Lizard Records) Daniele Riotti joined on drums and Marco Fabricci on bass (later replaced by Antonio Lo Piparo). The 8-tracks album features a sinuous sound, sometimes nostalgic, influenced by the likes of Mogwai, Secret Machines and Porcupine Tree, but also by the classic style of Genesis, Yes, King Crimson and Gentle Giant.
The ambitious and gently calibrated music, between virtuosity and biting melancholy, is well received by national and international critics. The Canadian publication Italian Progressive named the Giants between the best post progressive bands.
Giant the Vine are currently composing tracks for the next album, focusing on the structure and the shape of the songs more than on experimentation.
To be presented in May ’24, The Heresiarch is the new video from Giant The Vine. The song is taken from their latest album A Chair at the Backdoor (Luminol Records, 2023) and is for sure the peak of the full-length. Angular, pulsating, dynamic and resonating with alternative and post-punk influences, The Heresiarch is a straightforward song, commanding attention.
The track is inspired by the life of Dolcino, a famous heresiarch from early 1300, who took to the extreme the rebellion started by Saint Francis of Assisi, preaching men-women equality, refusing the role of the Church as medium between mankind and God, and living in a sort of hippie commune with no personal belongings.
Accused of Heresy by the Pope, Dolcino was executed by the civil authority with his co-preacher or concubine Margaret of Trent, and his body was cut into pieces and burned.
The video, essential but powerful, uses darkness and lights to highlight the dynamics and the moods of the songs, visually empowering the rhythm’s switches and the crescendos.
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