Usually a guitarist who choose to jump on a solo project can take two roads. The first is to realize an album that sees the vocal parts assigned to a number of guests, the second one is to realize an album closely instrumental.
This second path is the one that usually scares me more because the risk of being faced with an album
"all technical and little soul" for me is always very high, especially if we add to this an artist proviente a "musical territory" in which the shredder are the masters. Needless to say the record that I am in his hands and called Black Sheep by Francesco Marras along this second path, and also the roots of Francesco Marras' Sardinian artist and mastermind behind the Screaming Shadow and Black Demons, are rooted in power metal.
But the artist from his Sardinian has an enviable career that in addition to the mentioned groups led him to collaborate with artists and features for this, his first solo album with guests including John Macaluso on drums (Malmsteen, Ark, James Labrie Project ) and Alessandro Del Vecchio on keyboards (Edge Of Forever, Hardline, Glenn Hughes, Ian Paice, Steve Lukather).
1. Black Sheep
2. Hope for Tomorrow
3. Here to Stay
4. Straight Victory
5. The Joker
6. Elvis
7. We Are One
8. Miriam
9. Too Hard to Say Goodbye
10. Running Round in Circles
11. Sardinia
Francesco Marras – Black Sheep 2012
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