Food Of Love

Italians Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso are celebrating their 50th anniversary with the release of Orlando: Le Forme Dell’Amore, an ambitious concept album based on a 16th-century epic poem. Founding keyboard player Vittorio Nocenzi reveals why the band chose an elaborate tale of love, war and chivalry in the Middle Ages for their latest, and why its message still resonates today.

Dom Lawson

On the surface, the latest album from Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso is every bit as extravagant, flamboyant and artful as expected. The Italians’ 16th studio release, Orlando: Le Forme Dell’Amore is based on an epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto. First published in its complete form in 1532, Orlando Furioso tells a story of love, chivalry and war across an impressive 46 cantos, and has long been regarded as one of the most influential and culturally significant poems in Italy’s history. For a band like Banco, for whom concept albums and elaborate reinterpretations of literary works are second nature, Ariosto’s poem could hardly have been more perfect. But as founder and keyboard maestro Vittorio Nocenzi tells Prog (with translation help provided by Vittorio’s son Mario), Orlando Furioso is no cobwebbed curio…

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