Unreal City born in Parma in 2008 from the ashes of “The Syllogism”. The two founders, Emanuele
Tarasconi (keyboards, theremin and lead vocals) and Francesca Zanetta (guitar), met in the private
studio of Emanuele to build, from the ground up, a complex and challenging project: bring back
the classic sounds of progressive, symphonic and psychedelic art rock of the ‘70s in a modern
music mood, trying not to simulate but to magnify the vintage and typical side of that period.
The band, which name come from founders’ common passion for “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot,
began to play live.
In 2012 the band published their first EP, “Unreal City”, containing 3 song with English lyrics.
In 2013 Unreal City recorded their first album, produced by
Mirror Records/BTF with the artistic direction of Fabio Zuffanti (Finisterre, Hostsonaten, Maschera
di Cera) titled “La Crudeltà Di Aprile”.
The album, released on 24th April, 2013 climbs many Prog Rock charts and in a few months
became one of the best (and most reviewed) Progressive Rock albums of 2013.
The album is now at the 8th place in Prog Archives chart of best Prog Rock albums of 2013.
The band performed on many great stages as Cre.Sta Festival at the Porto Antico of Genoa and Metarock Festival with Banco del Mutuo
Soccorso in Pisa.
In 2014 the promotional tour continues with great international festival such as Riviera Prog
Festival (at Fiera Internazionale della Musica in Genoa) and Terra Incognita Progressif Festival in
Québec City, Canada, where they received a great appreciation from the critic and the audience.
Nowadays Unreal City are busy writing their second album, produced by the major AMS, which
will be released on 15th January 2015.

La Coscienza di Zeno 
LA COSCIENZA DI ZENO (CDZ) is a modern Italian progressive band that formed in Genoa in 2007. CDZ is named after a well-known Italian novel, the title of which translates into English as ”Zeno’s conscience”. The book is largely concerned with the paradoxes of human behaviour and is considered to be the first psychoanalytic novel. It represents the journal of the unreliable narrator Zeno Cosini as he undergoes psychoanalysis, and this contrasts with the efficacy of CDZ’s seventies-inspired musical narratives. CDZ initially played a modern style of progressive music that was influenced by the giants of UK prog rock. In fact, while they were working on their debut album last year they recorded a track for the YES tribute project ”Tales from the Edge”. However with the departure a couple of years earlier of the band’s original guitarist, Matteo Malvezzi, CDZ’s sound drew closer to that of the classic Italian bands such as BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO, although modified with a slight Neo-prog edge. The various members of CDZ themselves have a fairly illustrious pedigree and number the likes of NARROW PASS, IL TEMPIO DELLE CLESSIDRE, FINISTERRE and MALOMBRA among their former bands.