The Watch – Ghost ; Prog Rock, Symphonic Rock Year: 2001

Art/progressive rock band from Milan, Italy.

Formed in 1997 under the name The Night Watch - Since 2000 adopted the shortened name 'The Watch'.
Simone Rossetti, the charismatic front man of The Night Watch, continues his impressive work in the new band The Watch, but he's the only connection between the two bands. The Night Watch also was featured with one song on "The Reading Room" (2000) album and than they quit. Simone is an great vocalist/flautist and his voice is very similar to Peter Gabriel and so the sound on the new album is again like early Genesis. There are some reminiscences to Marillion, Spock's Beard and Änglagård too.

The Watch's debut album Ghost sounds so much like Genesis. The music is very similar to Peter Gabriel-era Genesis with lots of magnificient bombastic Mellotron. Folks, this is a total job that sounds like outtakes between Nursery Crime and Selling England By The Pound. This is "the best album Genesis never made"! Now we can add another classic to the list. A band to Watch out for!

The group owns the TW Studio, Milan.

1 DNAlien 8:36
2 The Ghost And The Teenager 8:38
3 Heroes 9:27
4 Moving Red 6:34
5 Riding The Elephant 3:38
6 ...And The Winner Is... 10:11
Recorded At – StudioLab Recording
Mixed At – StudioLab Recording
Mastered At – StudioLab Recording
Manufactured By – www.mcservice.it – 20936
Art Direction, Design – Alessandra Stevanin
Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Marco Schembri
Co-producer, Engineer – Gino Menichini, Sergio Taglioni
Drums, Percussion – Roberto Leoni
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar [FX Guitars] – Valerio Vado
Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Alessandro "Alle" Frangioni*, Gianni Corongiu
Executive-Producer – Lizard , Simone Stucchi, Studiolab*
Keyboards – Gabriele Manzini*
Keyboards [Additional Keyboards], Programmed By [Additional Programming] – Gino Menichini
Management – Chiara Majo, Mattia Senette
Photography By – Massimiliano Foscati
Piano, Organ, Synthesizer, Sound Designer – Sergio Taglioni
Producer – Simone Stucchi
Programmed By [Programming], Arranged By – Simone Stucchi
Recorded By [Guitars & Bass Recording], Editor [Digital Editing] – Simone Stucchi
Vocals, Flute, Arranged By – Simone Rossetti
Words By, Music By – Simone Rossetti