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DFA: work in progress live (CD, 52:41);
moonjune Records, MJR003, 2001 
E-mail: moonjune@moonjune.com 
Cyberhome: http:// digilander.iol.it/dfa 


10 words or less: Great Italian ProgFusion band
recorded live in concert

Elaboration: I must confess that I’m not a big fan of
live recordings so it takes a lot of prowess of
performance to win me over. As it turns out, DFA have
made me a believer!

The set starts out with 2 trax from their sophomore album
Duty Free Area. The first song is a barn burner of
the Ozric Tentacles variety and the second starts out
dreamy and then accelerates to warp speed after a couple
of minutes.There are some vocals which are tuneful and well
done.

Track 3 is a previously unreleased song from their
early days; a real twisty turny piece in various odd
times that are meant to represent a trip on a runaway
subway train; very cool.

Track 4 is from their debut album Lavori In Corso
and is the longest song of the set, clocking in around
16 minutes it’s an excellent Symph/Fusion suite. The entire
set is impeccably performed and captured and I highly
recommend it to any fans of progressive music.
~ L Perez

Tracks 
1) ESCHER 10.08
(Music: Bonomi,De Grandis) 
2) CALEIDOSCOPIO 9.16
(Music: Bonomi,De Grandis - Lyrics: Bonomi) 
3) TRIP ON METRO' 6.37
(Music: De Grandis) 
4) LA VIA 15.25
(Music: Bonomi,De Grandis - Lyrics: Bonomi) 
5) PANTERA 8.10
(Music: Bonomi) 
5) RAGNO 11.26
(Music: Bonomi, De Grandis) 

BALDASSARI Luca: Bass
BONOMI Alberto:Organ, Synthesizers and Vocals
DE GRANDIS Alberto: Drums and Vocals
MINELLA Silvio: Guitars

Recorded live at NEARfest 2000 - Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 
Saturday June 17, 2000

Produced by
Moonjune Records 



EER-MUSIC Editor sez:
DFA's "WORK IN PROGRESS LIVE" will appeal to keyboard-driven prog fans.
The synthscapes and complex 70's-voiced tapestries of keys are DFA.

The compositions also have a strong bass groove and bounce keeping a jazzy prog
feel. Guitar work is solid but without flash or highly technical pyrotechnics.
In fact, it is a sort of relaxed axe jam that overlays and augments the
keyboard superstructure. Drums are just right and never detract nor jump out at
you.

Italian lyrics and vox adds an early PFM aura but with a softer, romanticism,
or soft prog essence. DFA are hard to pin down and say, "like this
group or that". DFA is just DFA. I look forward to hearing another DFA release
with yet more complexity and variety.

If DFA tries its hand at utilizing more of a fast-paced, tighter focus on its
jazzier side and increases the use of unison lines they could very easily slip
into jazz rock fusion/prog in the vein of KRAAN. My hope is that this will
indeed happen as there is plenty of decent prog rock out there and never enough
jazz rock-driven fusion.

     ~ John W. Patterson, Editor of EER-MUSIC.com"



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