D.F.A.

DFA (Duty Free Area) is a guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, and vocals quartet from Italy that plays complexly arranged progressive rock with heavy jazz fusion influences. They have two studio releases to date and Work In Progress Live documents their performance at the Nearfest 2000 festival in Pennsylvania. The musicianship is impressive as each member carves his own distinct identity while at all times retaining the ensemble element in their music. Numerous analogies come to mind... ELP, early Camel, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and other diverse influences. More current analogies might include Deux Ex Machina (but without the vocal gymnastics). The music is mostly instrumental and the band excels at stop-on-a-dime rhythmic shifts. from http://www.aural-innovations.com