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Mandrakeroot wrote: micky wrote: for my fellow RPI friends.. help me out here... I'm as some of you know ...taking a nice long vacation to Italy in the next couple of weeks.. ahh.. 13 days  to be exact .  I plan on bringing an extra suitcase and buying every damn RPI album I can get my hands on hahhaaha .. Give me your top 5 or 10 current favs.. let me check them off vs. what I have and get them on my list if I don't.  Most interested in the 70's stuff but if there is a modern one you think I have to have.. put it on there.  Raff and Andrea Cortese have recommended some current ones that I have abolutely loved. Thanks all.. my fav of the '70's  artists/ bands are: Dalton "Riflessioni: Idea D'Infinito" Dalton: "Argitari" Mellow version or Akarma version Crystals: "Crystals" Panna Fredda "Uno" Perigeo: "La Valle Dei Templi" Perigeo: "Abbiamo Tutti Un Blues Da Piangere" The Trip: "Time Of Change" Delirium: "Le Più Belle Canzoni Dei Delirium" Delirium: "Delirium Live" Donella Del Monaco & Paolo Troncon; OpusAvantra Ensemble: "Venetia Et Anima" Sangiuliano: "Take Off" Osage Tribe: "Arrow Head"

several of those were on the list anyway.. and will check your reviews and the bible for the rest.  Thanks Mandi...

Andrea Cortese wrote: Hi all,   I would like to recommend the inclusion of the italian band Madrugada. They only released two albums between 1974 and 1977. I've just bought their second one titles "Incastro". It's one of the most crazy records I've ever heard!!!   The general mood of the album is avantguard but you also find a folk composition based on vocals (typical singing from the italian alps in dialect), a jazzy composition, an ethno percussions based (with vocal noises) experiment, a more conventional track with the help of Lucio Fabbri (ex PFM) on violin, an indo-prog raga-rock introduction for the song Katmandu, a more cosmic avantguard feel in the opener...what more a prog aficionado could ask for????   This is another worthy addition and I'm proud they're italian....   The album has been recently reissued by BTF in elegant papersleeve edition within three bonus tracks (three live versions). Highly recommended for all the avantguard prog fans!!!!   An impressive record for me also! Crazy and eclectic!         A SIDE   1) Romanzen 12.00 (Xanto - Pinto) Gianfranco Pinto keyboards and vocals Pietro Rapelli percussions and vocals Alessandro "Billy" Zanelli bass and vocals Gianni Bertocchi flute Lucio Fabbri violin 2) E' triste il vento 5.20 (Xanto - Pinto) Gianfranco Pinto keyboards and vocals Pietro Rapelli percussions and vocals Alessandro "Billy" Zanelli bass and vocals Lucio Fabbri violin Gianluigi Trovesi sax SIDE B 1) Aragon 8.22 (Xanto - Pinto) Gianfranco Pinto keyboards Pietro Rapelli percussions Alessandro "Billy" Zanelli bass Gianluigi Trovesi sax Luciano Ninzatti guitar 2) Katmandu 3.40 (Xanto - Pinto) Gianfranco Pinto keyboards and vocals Pietro Rapelli percussions and vocals Alessandro "Billy" Zanelli bass and vocals 3) Noter de Berghem 1.20 (Xanto - Pinto) Gianfranco Pinto vocals Pietro Rapelli vocals Alessandro "Billy" Zanelli vocals Hobbit 5.50 (Xanto - Pinto) Gianfranco Pinto keyboards Pietro Rapelli percussions Alessandro "Billy" Zanelli bass Gianluigi Trovesi sax Silvia Annichiarico vocals

that sounds like a hell of an album....

I've been getting into the avant stuff out the 70's Italian scene...  great great stuff..  I'll look for this one as well.  *puts on shopping list*


Edited by micky - February 26 2007 at 19:40

micky wrote: Andrea Cortese wrote: Hi all,   I would like to recommend the inclusion of the italian band Madrugada. They only released two albums between 1974 and 1977. I've just bought their second one titles "Incastro". It's one of the most crazy records I've ever heard!!!   The general mood of the album is avantguard but you also find a folk composition based on vocals (typical singing from the italian alps in dialect), a jazzy composition, an ethno percussions based (with vocal noises) experiment, a more conventional track with the help of Lucio Fabbri (ex PFM) on violin, an indo-prog raga-rock introduction for the song Katmandu, a more cosmic avantguard feel in the opener...what more a prog aficionado could ask for????   This is another worthy addition and I'm proud they're italian....   The album has been recently reissued by BTF in elegant papersleeve edition within three bonus tracks (three live versions). Highly recommended for all the avantguard prog fans!!!!   An impressive record for me also! Crazy and eclectic!         A SIDE   1) Romanzen 12.00 (Xanto - Pinto) Gianfranco Pinto keyboards and vocals Pietro Rapelli percussions and vocals Alessandro "Billy" Zanelli bass and vocals Gianni Bertocchi flute Lucio Fabbri violin 2) E' triste il vento 5.20 (Xanto - Pinto) Gianfranco Pinto keyboards and vocals Pietro Rapelli percussions and vocals Alessandro "Billy" Zanelli bass and vocals Lucio Fabbri violin Gianluigi Trovesi sax SIDE B 1) Aragon 8.22 (Xanto - Pinto) Gianfranco Pinto keyboards Pietro Rapelli percussions Alessandro "Billy" Zanelli bass Gianluigi Trovesi sax Luciano Ninzatti guitar 2) Katmandu 3.40 (Xanto - Pinto) Gianfranco Pinto keyboards and vocals Pietro Rapelli percussions and vocals Alessandro "Billy" Zanelli bass and vocals 3) Noter de Berghem 1.20 (Xanto - Pinto) Gianfranco Pinto vocals Pietro Rapelli vocals Alessandro "Billy" Zanelli vocals Hobbit 5.50 (Xanto - Pinto) Gianfranco Pinto keyboards Pietro Rapelli percussions Alessandro "Billy" Zanelli bass Gianluigi Trovesi sax Silvia Annichiarico vocals that sounds like a hell of an album.... I've been getting into the avant stuff out the 70's Italian scene...  great great stuff..  I'll look for this one as well.  *puts on shopping list*

that was a hell of a review Assaf.. the best kind...  makes me want/interested to hear the album.  Have some clappies... plus some bonus clappies for the review. Great work

Catherine Parr

micky wrote: that was a hell of a review Assaf.. the best kind...  makes me want/interested to hear the album.  Have some clappies... plus some bonus clappies for the review. Great work

memowakeman wrote: Wow!   Grazie

if you can find the album.. it's well worth checking out...

memowakeman wrote: micky wrote: Mandi, Andrea, Guillermo,  any others anyone by chance heard this.... Erik recommended this to me last year before he got tired of me making fun of him and stopped talking to me   Great album with some interesting RPI covers (not to mention the others covers of ELP, Trace, and Rick Wakeman) covers of PFM, Banco, and Balletto di Bronzo..  great stuff  (there there's ELP's Toccata.. wow hahhaha)   Not yet Sr., which Wakeman cover? , i`ve seen Erik and you love that album, so it must be a jewel, though.

Edited by DarioIndjic - February 27 2007 at 00:24

I wonder who added that album without any bio or such. This is not the way to proceed, when we members of the Specialist Team work overtime in order to get all the relevant information before we add a band.

However, I should be getting the album in the next few days. The band have a website, where their bio could've been found - whoever added the band could've bothered to contact one of the speakers of Italian here (me, for instance), in order to get their bio translated or summarised.

Edit: there is no bio on their website, but I hope to get one from the band itself, when they send me their CD (or I could drop them a line by email).


Edited by Ghost Rider - February 27 2007 at 01:31

I have a question. I have heard and like Il Balletto Di Bronzo - Ys and PFM - Per Un Amico.

My question is: What RPI bands/albums should I get next?