(Progressive Rock) Ifsounds - Red Apple - 2012, MP3, 256 kbps

IFSOUNDS is an Italian band with its roots in the 1990s, when they were known as IF. Five Italian friends played prog and non-prog covers (Pink Floyd, Queen, The Police) next to some of their own material - mainly at high school parties and small rock festivals. After a pause of 4 years, in 2004, the band rejoined, without former drummer Pietro Chissimo and with a new vocalist Paolo De Santis on vocals. The same year, the album In the Cave was released by the band themselves.
A year later this was followed by If, which contained newly recorded
versions of material written before the turn of the century.
The band got quite a bit of attention with this last release, and one track was nominated for a Kayak Award for easy listening...
Continuing a track of yearly releases, something that's becoming less and less common, the band released yet another album in 2006, The Stairway. Again the album was well received in their home country, and this time two tracks got nominated for Kayak Awards in the category "Progressive Rock".
After this, time had come to finally recruit a new drummer after 3 years of doing without. Luca di Pardo joins the band and can first be heard on the 2008 release Morpho Nestira, playing with Claudio Lapenna, Francesco Bussoli, Paolo de Santis and Dario Lastella. This album shows what skilled and trained musicians can do, and to the even so trained listener it reveals clearly which other bands have influenced IF.
In 2009 IF changed their name to IFSOUNDS. The new line-up sees Lapenna, Lastella, and Bussoli returning, joined by new lead vocalist Elena Ricci and drummer Enzo Bellocchio. The autumn of 2010 see the band proudly releasing their latest work "Apeirophobia."

Line-up / Musicians
- Enzo Bellocchio / drums.
- Federica Berchicci / lead vocals.
- Franco Bussoli / bass guitar.
- Claudio Lapenna / electric and acoustic piano, organ, synth, lead and backing vocals.
- Dario Lastella / guitars, keyboards, synth, sequencers, bass guitar, ukulele, backing vocals.
- Guests:
- Andrea Garrison / radio host.
- Roberto Canone (from The Wimshurst's Machine) / flute and saxophone on "After".
- Nick Katona / as the President Nicholas Wakeman.
- David Slater / as the TV anchorman.
- Carmen Vera and Sun Foradada / backing vocals on "Christmas 2012".