Prowlers biography
From the band’s MySpace page:
Prowlers was an Italian prog rock band. this is a short story of our band and our music. thirteen magic year… In 1985 Laura Mombrini (vocals), Gianni Radici (Guitars) and Roberto Biglioli (drums) met Fabio Dehò (bass) and Alfio Costa (Keyboards) and took the decision to play Great Music !… Strange Music!… with passion and fun! Prowlers were born! In the beginning the band was influenced by blues-rock, hard rock and the early Pink Floyd (Syd Barret era). In 1989, after many live concerts in northern Italy, Prowlers were well known and record their first demo with new drummer Giovanni «Giana» Vezzoli. After some years, with the new band members Stefano Piazzi (guitars) and Marco Premoli (bass) the band records, with an old Fostex eight tracks recorder, a demo tape called «Morgana». This was their first progressive and psychedelic work (just a demo tape…), but it will be released by the Italian label Mellow Records in 1994 as the first Prowlers’ album. «Morgana» had a great success in the «new-progressive world» (but the quality of the recording isn’t too good.) and sold out. In 1994 Flavio Costa (Alfio’s younger brother) joined the band and with two guitarists, Prowlers recorded «Mother and Fairy» a double studio album, mixed by Ciro Perrino (Il Sistema, Celeste etc.), a great Italian musician. This second album was more «progressive» than «Morgana», with some long tracks full of keyboards and guitars duels, and Laura’s voice, so beautiful that many people called her the «Italian Annie Haslam». Unfortunately, it being a double album, its price was too high, so it didn’t have a great success. So Stefano Piazzi and Marco Premoli left the band. In 1995 Alan Ghirardelli, a young bass player and a friend of Flavio’s, joined Prowlers. Alfio started to write a colossal rock suite about the story of the band. He was influenced by the Italian seventies progressive and especially by The Trip, Osanna, Goblin, Balletto di Bronzo and PFM. In 1995 Mellow records started to produce some tribute records to some great progressive names: Gentle Giant, VDGG, Camel … Prowlers play and record «First Light» for the Camel tribute and «Ultima ora / Ode a Jimi Hendrix» (by the Trip), for the «Zarathustra’s Revenge, the Italian seventies progressive tribute». In 1996 Prowlers play live in some important Italian prog Festivals (Vigevano Prog Fest, Trento Greem Pop Fest etc.). In 1997, after three years and many hard work, the band enters Sonica Studios in Rovereto with the great engineer and musician Marco Olivotto, to record «Sweet Metamorfosi». absolutely the best work by the band. This is the more progressive album of the band: a sixty minutes rock suite with many time and mood changes. Laura Mombrini’s voice (sometimes in English and sometimes in Italian) was as good as it’s ever been, Alfio’s and Flavio’s musical «feeling» was fantastic while Giana and Alan were the «rhythm monsters» of this great album. «Sweet Metamorfosi» had a great success and today it is sold out… It can still be found in some U.S. web-shops and maybe. sometimes on Ebay . But all the Prowlers’ records are real rarities. In 1998 Alan Ghirardelli left the band and Roberto «Bobo» Aiolfi became the new bass player. Prowlers record «The Sage» for the ELP tribute and start the «Sweet Metamorfosi tour», but after some concerts, Laura Mombrini and Giana Vezzoli left the band and Prowlers split up. … then, after some months, Alfio, Flavio and Bobo started a new musical adventure . TILION… But this is another story.
https://myspace.com/prowlersprog
