"If you take a specific look at what's happening in nowadays rock trends, you'll immediately notice that STANDARTE is an anomaly, but not a casualty. In a time when not many go back further than 1977 in search of motivation and credibility, STANDARTE undertakes a journey far more challenging, unearthing something that is wrongly considered too complex to handle: the wildest side of late sixties british underground rock, that magic, shifting, incredibly rich moment, when psychedelia, having absorbed and transformed the basic structures of beat, R&B and early hard-rock, laid down the backbone of what was to become progressive rock.

This process is evident right from the first self titled album, which was ecstatically received and reviewed in 1995. Its sound and attitude was favorably compared to classic british rock acts like Atomic Rooster, Rare Bird, Procol Harum, yet many acknowledged an unmistakable contemporary identity.

1996 saw the release of what is to consider an even more pronounced statement in terms of style and almost aristocratic musical integrity, Curses and Invocations: "no bedtime story but an unsettling collection of creepy nightmares" (Crominga Well Magazine, Belgium).

The new album is out now, Stimmung, with a studio side and a live side recorded in Stockholm and in Florence. The sound changed quite a lot from the previous works. The music is a good established example of how to blend sixties compositive eclecticism with steady seventies hard-rock dynamics all tied together by a mighty powerful sound. Yet the trademark of the band, that deflagrating interplay between organ and guitar, is still there to greet the adventurous listener."