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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2006 at 08:39
Originally posted by ANDREW ANDREW wrote:

Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

It would be interesting to do a list of all the classic italian bands from the seventies that are not in the italian symphonic prog section.
 
I think that many of these bands are often forgotten or, unjustly underrated by the thousands of users of this site.
 
Ok, let's try (all '70s bands):
 
ALBERGO INTERGALATTICO SPAZIALE
GLI ALISEI
GLI APOSTOLI
ATLANTIDE
BAMBIBANDA E MELODIE
BLUE MORNING
BOOM
CAPRICORN COLLEGE
FABIO CELI E GLI INFERMIERI
COMBO JAZZ
CONDOR
CRYSTALS
DRAGON
ELEKTRIKUS
ERA DI ACQUARIO
EXPLOIT
FLASHMEN
FLORA FAUNA E CEMENTO
FREE WAVW SYSTEM
GENCO PURO E CO.
GEN VERDE
GIALMA 3
G. MEN
LA GRANDE FAMIGLIA
GREGOR
GROSSO AUTUNNO
LE GROUPE X
GRUPPO D'ALTERNATIVA
I.P.SON GROUP
JANUS
KATHARSIS
L'ALTRO LATO
LASER
I LEONI
LIBRA
LIVING LIFE
LIVING MUSIC
LOGAN DWIGHT
LUNA
MADRUGADA
MANDILLO
NADMA
NASCITA DELLA SFERA
NUMI
ODISSEA
PIAZZA DELLE ERBE
PING PONG
PRAENESTUM BLOCCO 452
PREGHIERA DI SASSO/DIAPASON
IL PUNTO
IL REALE IMPERO BRITANNICO
RICHARD'S LAST GROUP
ROKY'S FILY
I SANTONI
IL SEGNO DELLO ZODIACO
SHOWMEN 2
SIGILLO DI HORUS
I SIGNORI DELLA GALASSIA
IL SISTEMA
LA SORGENTE
STATALE 17/EMPHASIS
STORMY SIX
STRADAPERTA
STRANA OFFICINA
TEATRO TEMPORANEAMENTE TRABALLANTE
TRITONS
THE UNDERGROUND SET
UT
VENEGONI E CO.
VENETIAN POWER
 
 
 
 
Il 'Reale Impero Britannico' is in fact a 'Goblin' one off side project created for a soundtrack ( for contractual reasons they couldn't use the name 'Goblin') 'Goblin' recorded the whole soundtrack, but only have of the compostions( the better ones)  are actually from the band mainly by keyboarder Simonetti. The overall athmosphere is seventies soul funk with prog keyboard lines on top. Not a major 'Goblin' record but a good listen with some nice melodies and solos (BTW to be added in the 'Goblin' discography)
 
 
Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear
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Explain the meaning of this song and share it"

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2006 at 09:00
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<DIV>Il '<strong>Reale Impero Britannico'</strong> is in fact a '<strong>Goblin'</strong> one off side project created for a soundtrack ( for contractual reasons they couldn't use the name 'Goblin') 'Goblin' recorded the whole soundtrack, but only have of the compostions( the better ones)  are actually from the band mainly by keyboarder Simonetti. The overall athmosphere is seventies soul funk with prog keyboard lines on top. Not a major 'Goblin' record but a good listen with some nice melodies and solos (BTW to be added in the 'Goblin' discography)</DIV>
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Il 'Reale Impero Britannico' is in fact a 'Goblin' one off side project created for a soundtrack ( for contractual reasons they couldn't use the name 'Goblin') 'Goblin' recorded the whole soundtrack, but only have of the compostions( the better ones)  are actually from the band mainly by keyboarder Simonetti. The overall athmosphere is seventies soul funk with prog keyboard lines on top. Not a major 'Goblin' record but a good listen with some nice melodies and solos (BTW to be added in the 'Goblin' discography)
 
 
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Thanks Alucard. This is very important specification.
 
 
Thanks Alucard. This is very important specification.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2006 at 09:29
Originally posted by MANDRAKEROOT MANDRAKEROOT wrote:

Originally posted by Alucard 
<DIV>Il '<strong>Reale Impero Britannico'</strong> is in fact a '<strong>Goblin'</strong> one off side project created for a soundtrack ( for contractual reasons they couldn't use the name 'Goblin') 'Goblin' recorded the whole soundtrack, but only have of the compostions( the better ones)  are actually from the band mainly by keyboarder Simonetti. The overall athmosphere is seventies soul funk with prog keyboard lines on top. Not a major 'Goblin' record but a good listen with some nice melodies and solos (BTW to be added in the 'Goblin' discography)</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks Alucard. This is very important specification.</DIV>[/QUOTE Alucard
Il 'Reale Impero Britannico' is in fact a 'Goblin' one off side project created for a soundtrack ( for contractual reasons they couldn't use the name 'Goblin') 'Goblin' recorded the whole soundtrack, but only have of the compostions( the better ones)  are actually from the band mainly by keyboarder Simonetti. The overall athmosphere is seventies soul funk with prog keyboard lines on top. Not a major 'Goblin' record but a good listen with some nice melodies and solos (BTW to be added in the 'Goblin' discography)
 
 
 
 
Thanks Alucard. This is very important specification.
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I added it but the info found them means Google and he is not entire.
 
 
 
I added it but the info found them means Google and he is not entire.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2006 at 09:47

PERIGEO/ PERIGEO SPECIAL/ NEW PERIGEO story:

 
Perigeo/ Perigeo Special:
Tony Sidney (guitar)
Franco D'Andrea (keiboards)
Claudio Fasoli (sax)
Giovanni Tommaso (bass, contrabass and voice)
Bruno Biriaco (drums, percussions)
 
New Perigeo:
Maurizio Giammarco (sax)
Danilo Rea (keyboards)
Carlo Pennisi (guitars)
Giovanni Tommaso (bass)
Agostino Marangolo (drums)
 
 
The PERIGEO were one of the groups more popular in Italy in the 70's. Their genre was substantially a Jazz with Free parts (in the intro of the songs) with Swing song (but with much Rock guitars and sax) or, still, Funky Jazz (above all in the album "Alice"). Nevertheless never they were a Prog band if not for historical period of production.
 
The group is formed in Rome in 1971 and had immediately a contract with RCA Italiana and has published the album "Azimut" (1972) and of continue (in the pauses of intense live activity the besides Italian POP festivals and tournèe in France and England) "Abbiamo Tutti Un Blues Da Piangere" (1973), "Genealogia" (1974), "La Valle Dei Templi" (1975) and "Non è Poi Così Lontano" (1976), all characterized from warm and very Italian mentality (although Tony Sidney is American).
 
After 4 years of silence, thanks to a project ordered from RCA Italiana to Giovanni Tommaso (the writer of the greater part of the songs) the same Giovanni Tommaso recalls the od companions and reform the Perigeo. To celebrate the feeling found in rapid manner and the magical manners he remames the band PERIGEO SPECIAL. With the help of a lot of hosts it the good double concept album "Alice" (based on the story of Lewis Carroll) is born.
 
"Effetto Amore" of 1981 is a marginal album with a new formation including Carlo Pennisi and Agostino Marangolo from Flea and Goblin and Maurizio Giammarco from Blue Morning and Canzoniere del Lazio.
 
Personally I advice the first 4 albums and "Alice".
 
 



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2006 at 11:36
Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

Hello, Mandrakeroot. Yesterday I found in pickuprecords Springsong by Hostsonaten(2002). A convincing symphonic album by Fabio Zuffanti & co.
 
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Happy you!!! Saturday afternoon I went to Ronchi Dei Legionari (Gorizia) to the Red Moon Shop (www.redmoonrecords.com). I gained "Formula 3" by Formula 3 and "Riflessioni: Idea D'Infinito" and "Argitari" by Dalton.
 
Unfortunately I replaced in the shelf the second Il Baricentro album and today I am very UnhappyUnhappyUnhappyUnhappyUnhappy
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2006 at 08:34
Originally posted by MANDRAKEROOT MANDRAKEROOT wrote:

Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

Hello, Mandrakeroot. Yesterday I found in pickuprecords Springsong by Hostsonaten(2002). A convincing symphonic album by Fabio Zuffanti & co.
 
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Happy you!!! Saturday afternoon I went to Ronchi Dei Legionari (Gorizia) to the Red Moon Shop (www.redmoonrecords.com). I gained "Formula 3" by Formula 3 and "Riflessioni: Idea D'Infinito" and "Argitari" by Dalton.
 
Unfortunately I replaced in the shelf the second Il Baricentro album and today I am very UnhappyUnhappyUnhappyUnhappyUnhappy
 
I also saw cd copies of Samadhi, Osage Tribe, Raccomandata Ricevuta di Ritorno, Imagin'Aria, Agorà, Sangiuliano, Deus ex Machina, Jacula, Jet-Lag .... I hope to buy some of them as soon as possible ...(and to spend as less as possibileEmbarrassed)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2006 at 10:55

CRYSTALS story

 
Carlo Degani: Lead Vocals, percussions
Giorgio Piazza: Bass Guitar (ex PFM)
Giorgio Santandrea: drums, percussions (ex Alphatarus)
Marcello Todaro: acoustic and electric guitars (ex Banco del Mutuo Soccorso)
Nanni Citivenga: guitars (ex Raccomandata Ricevuta Di Ritorno and samadhi)
 
Paolo Tofani (Area and Electric Frankenstein): composer
 
With a formation so it is weird that the CRYSTALS lasted so little. Besides awn a mystery because the Cramps record have not ever published their disc (appeared for the first time in 1992 for Mellow Records). In truth the album is little Italian, resembling more to the Led Zeppelin and certains English groups than not to the classic Italian Prog. It is not original like music because "Time Out" is 100% Led Zeppelin (arrengements and sound) and "Policeman" is a lot of Folk but still too Led Zeppelin.
 
The album, sung in English, is an interesting document for what would have been able to become a really interesting and important group for the Italian scene.
 
Discography:
 
1992: Crystals (recorded 1974) by Mellow Records MMP120

2003: Crystals (recorded 1974) by  Akarma AK 1040 (with different gatefold sleeve cover)



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Interesting info, Andrea. Chrystal looks like a (big) super-group! From the names of the ex it seems the best italian super group since Il Volo.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2006 at 11:20

In these days I'm interested in Riccardo Cocciante's debut MU (his only prog record)and in the newest Taproban's album Posidonian Fields. From the samples I've heard it seems a wonderful album!

 
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2006 at 11:30
Another good site list from Italian Prog bands (letter G to N):
 
www.igiganti.it (I Giganti)
aloysius.itimpresa.mi.it/dimartino/index.html (Giacomo "Mino" Di Martino, guitarplayer of I Giganti)
www.goblinhome.com (Goblin)
www.simonetti.org (Claudio Simonetti, keyboardplayer of Goblin)
www.baroneago.it (Agostino Marangolo, drummer of Goblin)
Jacula: see www.antoniusrex.com
www.alfiovitanza.com (Alfio Vitanza, drummer of Latte & Miele)
www.locandadellefate.it (Locanda Delle Fate)
www.maxophone.it (Maxophone)
www.museo.it (Museo Rosenbach)
www.newtrolls.it (New Trolls)
www.newtrollsnetclub.it (New Trolls fan club)
www.ilmitonewtrolls.com (Il Mito Dei New Trolls by Nico Di Palo)
www.ilcuorenewtrolls.it (Il Cuore Dei New Trolls by Gianni Belleno)
digilander.libero.it/nuovacompagnia (Nuova Compagnia Di Canto Popolare)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2006 at 11:37
Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

In these days I'm interested in Riccardo Cocciante's debut MU (his only prog record)and in the newest Taproban's album Posidonian Fields. From the samples I've heard it seems a wonderful album!

 
 
 
 
 
Extreme interesting samples and band, these taproban!!!
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REVOLTONS discography
 
REVOLTONS is a very interesting Progrssive Power Metal from Vajont (pordenone, Italy). The Prog parts is extremely Italian Prog and the Prog Metal parts is 100% Helloween, Gamma Ray, Riot,Metal Church and other similar bands.
 
The site is: www.revoltons.com
 
And REVOLTONS DISCOGRAPHY is:
 
- See You Soon In The End Of Time (demo 2000, Prog Rock with Metal Influence. RECOMMENDED)
- The Autumn Believer (demo 2001, Progressive Power Metal)
- Night Vision (debut album 2003 Limb Music [0310-061CD]/ SPV [085-65842], Prog Power Metal. MASTERPIECE OF PROG POWER METAL. ABSOLUTELY RECOMMENDED)
- Lost Remembrance (not published second CD, exist in demo version [not published], Prog Power Metal more Prog)
 
  


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2006 at 12:09
Another good site list from Italian Prog bands (letter O to P):
 
www.donelladelmonaco.com (Donella Del Monaco/ Opus Avantra)
www.le-orme.com (Le Orme)
www.aldotagliapietra.it (Aldo Tagliapietra, bass, guitar and voice of Le Orme)
www.tonypagliuca.it (Tony Pagliuca keyboarder of Le Orme)
www.leormefanclub.con (Le Orne fan club)
www.maalavia.net (Maalavia, Etno Prog band with Tony Pagliuca's collaboration)
see www.cucciologiadikdik.com for Osage Tribe
www.osanna.it (osanna)
www.mauropagani.com (Mauro Pagani)
www.picchiodalpozzo.com (Picchio dal Pozzo)
www.arturostalteri.com (Arturo Stalteri; Keyboarder, percussionist and voice of Pierrot Lunaire)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2006 at 12:36
^^^
 
excellent work, AndreaClap. Once you will finish the web site list, then you should re-group all in an unique big list an fix it at the first page of this thread.
 
 
By the way, whattapity! Posidonian Fields is still not available here so I had to check for some other items...Cry
 
btw I've bought two more albums from the huge italian prog scene: Tongue
 
1- First a precious obscure gem by a famous pop italian singer songwriter: Riccardo Cocciante! Few people know his 1972 debut album is an excellent symphonic prog record. By the many guest musicians a certain Paolo Rustichelli!!!!Big smile The album is a concept titled MU. Even if this is not listed in our venerable archives (the only prog album in a long pop career) it is nevertheless an excellent addition for any good symphomaniac!!! I hope to post soon a review on the forum of this album!Clap
 
 
2 - I also bought Finisterre's 1999 album In Ogni Luogo!Wink A lucky day. Hope to buy Posidonian Fields very soon, though...
 
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^^^
I love that Finisterre album, althuogh I konw of people who dislike it. But I think this one and another I have by them (the name escapes me now) are fine albums and make for an enjoyable listen.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 30 2006 at 05:07
Another good site list from Italian Prog bands (letter Q to Z+ JUMBO):
 
www.danibyjumbo.com (Jumbo)
www.mauiviolin.com (Don V. Lax, violin of Quella Vecchia Locanda)
www.claudiorocchi.com (Claudio Rocchi)
www.jennysorrenti.it (Alan Sorrenti's sister and voice of Saint Just)
www.michelezarrillo.com (Michele Zarrillo, voice of Semiramis)
www.francofabbri.net (Franco Fabbri of  Stormy Six)
thanitart.com/demetrio/index.html (not official site of Demetrio Stratos)
thetrip.altervista.org/intro.htm (The Trip)
www.riccardozappa.it (Riccardo Zappa)


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recently, while I was doing a search for Internet site list in my thread I have uncovered that Tony Pagliuca (keyboarder of Le Orme) collaborated with the Etno Prog group Malaavia (he is in PA, ouch!...) (www.malaavia.net). Entered in their site I was accompained from a Renaissance Prog really attractive and being able. Here another band from not to do to escape!!!
 
I will try to do mine their disc... And you does waited for?
 
MalaaviaDanze d'Incenso CD (album) cover


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 30 2006 at 07:09
Malaavia is pretty nice, I have Danze d'incenso and quite like it (although this is not mind blowing).

The cover art work of this album is very nice.

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Originally posted by avestin avestin wrote:

Malaavia is pretty nice, I have Danze d'incenso and quite like it (although this is not mind blowing).

The cover art work of this album is very nice.

 
 
The correct name of MALAAVIA is: "Carovana Eterea MALAAVIA"
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Another site that I would want signal is that of the mythical singer Luciano Regoli (Raccomandata Ricevuta Ritorno, Samadhi and other then reappeared with the Roman Prog Metallers DGM) www.lucianoregoli.it . It it discussed alone and exclusively of its work of painter. Nevertheless I believe that always it sends off a mail for info also its activity of singer. You will discover a figurative painter in the better tradition (its Still-life are very attractive).
 
For its activity with the DGM that it is limit to the first three album ("Random Access Zone", "Change Direction" and "Wings Of Time") clicks on www.dgmsite.com.
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