Best Italian Prog one-offs

American Khatru wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Il Balletto di Bronzo...has no one noticed that they weren't a one off? From OP: American Khatru wrote: ... Above I've listed all 11 of the one-off albums that I have.  I'm sorry if I've missed any, but I couldn't honestly represent them anyway.  (For purposes of this poll I consider a band to still be a one-off even if they had one earlier record that was clearly not prog, like Balletto... I really thought of leaving it out despite that "rule of the thread" though, because I knew there'd be people, like myself, who would absolutely pick that record if it were in, and thus leave themselves less in the way of other choices.  Oh well.

One more great one-off:

Finnforest wrote: 1-Semiramis 2-Balletto 3-Enzo 4-RRR 5-Museo 6-Alusa 7-RADM 8-Campo 9-Locanda 10-Celeste 11-Maxophone That's mine in order, at least on this day...

Finnforest, did you vote for three in the poll?  I ask because you put Enzo Capuano 3rd, but as of now noone has voted for his album.  Now, I AM NOT lobbying for him, I'm just asking because I was thinking of doing the post-mortem on this poll this weekend.  all respect to you for your love of RPI!!

Il Balletto di Bronzo...has no one noticed that they weren't a one off?

All are great but my favourites are maybe
Il Balletto di Bronzo "Ys"
Locanda delle Fate "Forse le Lucciole non si Amano Più"
and maybe
Maxophone "Maxophone"


Thank you for Enzo Capuano "Storia Mai Scritta" I thought I already had all Italian prog albums

Well, things have got mighty slow 'round these here parts.  So it's time to post my three.

Picking just three was cruelly hard, but I went with
Ys
Dedicato a Frazz
Intorno alla Mia Cattiva Educazione

Ys and Frazz need no explanation.  Zarathustra and Maxophone may be more artistically tight offerings (and coudl easily be in top three for me), Reale Accademia works its way up to a well earned ending (floors me), and Principe is of course haunting.  But Ys is just completely phenominal, even in little ways (the keys are always cited, which are of course great, but did you ever lean into what the bass is doing through the record, or take the slinky and slaved line at the start of the Primo?, and don't get me started on the guitar, I'll end up writing a review).  And Frazz is just a joy to listen to, always finding new things and surprised.

As for Intorno, I think it's a masterpiece of the long form.  The motifs are brilliantly exploited and can be followed throughout, it's truly fascinating, and the (often) one-in-each-ear winds are a great idea and wonderfully done.  And Carta Carbone is just so cool and unexpected non-prog (which is to say prog!); it's more machismo than usually gets on such an artistic record.  Per Iniziare una Vita into E Oggi always a thrill.  I play Intorno at least as much as any other Italian record I own.

Out of the 11 bands I knew 8...............Ys  ...   is my pick but there are some beauties there.  but what happened to JET and Cervello. I will admit has anybody done a poll where nobody says what happened to this or that and everybody here agrees I think they would have more chance winning the lottery.

I only know around half of these so I won't vote, but from what I do know, I pick Maxophone. I would pick Museo but they always were too heavy for me

Thanks Todd.   I'll check these out.  And yeah sure I've seen stuff at amazon, but I appreciate more your other suggestions of Walker and Larsen - they look more like 'sites of merit' (not that amazon's awful or anything, just not as in need of business as others).

Greg Walker is an online vendor with a huge selection.  http://synphonic.8m.com/index.htm