Hi.

We're happy to announce that two of our songs "Don't go" and "It's just me" have been nominated for the IAC Golden Kayak Awards in the category "Classic and Progressive Rock".

It's the second year we receive the honour of a nomination (last year "You" was nominated in "Easy Listening") and it's amazing seeing if among the best indie artists in the world. See the list and you'll find great artists as Maria Daines, Ash Ferry, Gina French, Ray Porter or Larree (just to say few of them...).

We want to thank all the artists who voted for our songs and all if's friend for their support.

Thank you all!

It's about 2 months we released our album "The Stairway" and now listeners and webzines begin to review our work.

Reading the reviews I feel both happy and disappointed about them.
I'm happy because the reviews are generally positive: people like "The Stairway" and that's great, because you can see your effort worths.
But on the other side I'm disappointed because nearly all reviews pointed on our "programmed drums". I tried to have synth drums with natural feeling, but it's evident I failed... Anyway we'll try to have a real drummer for our next release.

I would like to use this space to thank you everyone who dedicated us time listening our music and writing their opinion. That's the only way we have to grow.

Thanks a lot to my friend Jordi Orriols from La Radio del Alma who is putting on airplay our music: the most important thing is that he likes our album for the message and not only for the music: the lyrics and the story are such important as the music is!

OK. Waiting for new reviews... so everyone out there who wants to tell us something, please write. We need you!

Last year we got our first #1 on IACmusic.com with the song "I wish"...
This song was a "little hit" and succeeded in topping the Classical chart on the site... We put it in this genre because of its Classical feeling and arrangement, with spanish guitar, piano, cello and female choir.
One of my best friends on the web, Raymond Porter, liked a lot this song and greatly contributed to its success putting it in many of his stations.
Almost an year after, we released our new album "The Stairway".
At the same moment we put all our old songs in our site, where everyone can download them freely.
Of course I decided to send a copy of our new album to my friend Ray and I sent him the backings of that song he likes so much...
Well, he recorded an intense version of our "I wish" (with the same backings, but a little bit shorter) with slightly modified lyrics.
He sent me his version and asked me if he could put it on IAC.
I said "OK Ray!"... well his version is now #1 on Easy Listening charts and it's in the Top 10 in All Genres charts!!!
He wrote me that the song was listened by more than 800 people today...
I've got no words... it's incredible, amazing...

Thanks Ray to help us to reach so many people!

Anyway... anyone of you can listen to this song in its original version (free downloadable from our page of MySpace too) and in Ray's version on his page http://www.myspace.com/theraymondporterband

Today the on-line magazine Primonumero.it published an interview to Claudio and Dario.

You can read it on this link http://www.primonumero.it/attualita/primopiano/articolo.php?id=2957 ... sorry it's in Italian!

Hi to everyone!

I went back home for holidays: I usually live in Barcelona, but now I'm home in Italy.
I met my bandmates here and we start promoting our CD.
We sent some copy for general public to CDBaby and many copies to prog-zines and radios all over the world.
We are looking for opinions by proggers and general listeners to improve our work and we are looking for some exposure too!
It's not the most important thing, but we would like to sell some CD, at least to go out together one night to celebrate it.

Just few words to MySpace's friends: thanks a lot it's a honour have known you and share this world with you.

See you soon,

Dario.

Hi everyone.

I'm Dario from if and I finally decided to sign up the band on MySpace.
Well, I already knew some artist out there, so I thought why don't we try to know more artists and to be known by more people.
Our main problem is to find our own audience: our music is quite out of the commercial mainstream and we are old enough to know that no major will contact us to let us rich and famous...
But we simply don't care, we're indie enough to think that the most important is the art and not the business. We all have our jobs outside the music world, so we don't need to sell to survive (anyway we would like to cover at least the outgoings we had producing our music!).
Our aim here in MySpace is to reach new listeners who could love our songs or could hate them: every comment will help us to improve our music (or to definitively give up!!!) and I know that there's someone out there that wants to listen to us.
We ended up our new album "The Stairway" and you can stream many songs from our MySpace page. Please let us know what about and if you really like it you can buy it in its downloadable version on http://iacmusic.com/if (only 5$) and soon as a physical CD on CDBaby.

So, if you like prog rock like Pink Floyd and Genesis (but we've got some funky number too!) please give a chance to if your new Italian prog band!