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Points: 1014 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2008 at 23:57

Just picked up the Maxophone DVD.  "From Cocoon to Butterfly"
If you like Maxophone, you MUST get this DVD Thumbs%20Up
EXCELLENT !

Italians know music like birds know the air & fish know water Wink
As far as I'm concerned, they have the legacy of being the finest musicians in the world !


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It is rumoured that Maxophone are about to release a brand new boxset and are willing to tour later on this year. Always a good thing!
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Originally posted by domizia domizia wrote:

It is rumoured that Maxophone are about to release a brand new boxset and are willing to tour later on this year. Always a good thing!
 
 
Great news Domizia!
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Hey guys, have you heard this one?   Does it deserve site inclusion?

EXPLOIT


Carlo Crivelli (keyboards, vocals)
Enzo Cutuli (bass, vocals)
Aldo Pignanelli (drums, percussion)


Exploit were a little known band from Rome that only released an ultrarare album, Crisi, for the small label CGO. 
Another of those minor albums with two different faces, A side containing a long three-part suite, while the B side contains six commercial pop songs, four of which were also released on the band's singles. 
While these songs are rather dull and inconsistent, the side-long Crisi, composed by three parts, has very interesting moments with the keyboards of Crivelli being the lead instrument with some ELP and Le Orme influences. One of the three parts of the suite is sung in english, rest in italian.

For this long track only, the album deserves a listen, but its current price is too high for the real musical value.

 


 

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Crisi

CGO (FC 1008)

1972

gatefold cover

 

CGO (FC 1008)

1989

as above - official reissue



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Crisi

Mellow (MMP 189)

1994

reissue of 1972 album

 

SINGLES (with picture sleeves)

Il campanile della cattedrale
Giochiamo insieme

CGO (EX 001)

1972

both tracks from Crisi

L'anima nuda
La tua pelle scotta

CGO (EX 601)

1972

both tracks from Crisi

The green's man
Hot Mexico road

CGO (EX 607)

1973

both unreleased tracks - apparently only issued with blank cover

 


An extremely rare item that only had a limited pressing of a few hundred copies, reaching a $1000-1500 value;  the album has had a 1000 copies reissue in 1989 from the original masters, keeping the same design and label as the original, and this second issue is easier to find though expensive.

The reissue is very similar to the original, and can be identified mainly by the label, that's smooth where the first issue had a rough, almost textured, paper. All the labels in the reissue carry the "Disco campione - Vietata la vendita" writing ("Promotional copy - Not for sale") and have the circular SIAE stamp in dark ink, very hard to notice.

No counterfeits nor foreign issues exist.


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^ Sounds like something BTF/Vinyl Magic should get their hands on.  How did you hear it, Jim?
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I haven't heard it....  but if it checks out and I strongly suspect it will LOL.... soon to be added...

they are in my book of Italian prog.. .here is what it has to say.. to paraphrase...

group was reluctant to play live (no wonder few to any have ever heard of them) Music on the two sides of vinyl were very different... one the typical Italian pop that Raff loves with such a passion.. the other... typical Italian prog similar to Trip and Garybaldi.

will add this one....
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Originally posted by jimmy_row jimmy_row wrote:

^ Sounds like something BTF/Vinyl Magic should get their hands on.  How did you hear it, Jim?
 
I have a CD reissue, not sure if its Mellow or VM, I'll have to check after work. 
 
Haven't heard it yet though, it has yet to make its way to the top of the pile. 
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Originally posted by domizia domizia wrote:

It is rumoured that Maxophone are about to release a brand new boxset and are willing to tour later on this year. Always a good thing!

Hope the rumor is true. though I assume they will only tour in Europe / Italy.
Also hope that their "new" musical efforts reflect what they were 30 + years ago.


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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Originally posted by jimmy_row jimmy_row wrote:

^ Sounds like something BTF/Vinyl Magic should get their hands on.  How did you hear it, Jim?
 
I have a CD reissue, not sure if its Mellow or VM, I'll have to check after work. 
 
Haven't heard it yet though, it has yet to make its way to the top of the pile. 


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"For this long track only, the album deserves a listen, but its current price is too high for the real musical value."

I saw that, and immediately thought....nope, not for me LOL 
 
I'll find a way to hear it after it's in PA; I've found that when bands take the ELP + Le Orme influence, it's usually good stuff.
 
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No love or knowledge for ARPIA?  Their 80's demo albums are masterpieces.  I know those guys and stock their CDs in my store.Big%20smile
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Originally posted by Shadow Kingdom Shadow Kingdom wrote:

No love or knowledge for ARPIA?  Their 80's demo albums are masterpieces.  I know those guys and stock their CDs in my store.Big%20smile
 
The albums after the 80's a good too.
 
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Originally posted by Shadow Kingdom Shadow Kingdom wrote:

Originally posted by Shadow Kingdom Shadow Kingdom wrote:

No love or knowledge for ARPIA?  Their 80's demo albums are masterpieces.  I know those guys and stock their CDs in my store.Big%20smile
 
The albums after the 80's a good too.
 
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I've this album:
 

1995
Liberazione
4.14
(3 ratings)
 
 
4%20stars My review is produced using this release: Pick UP Records PKPROG1904

Rating: 8/10

Historical band of the Roman underground the Arpia decide to build a concept on the story of the Italian Republic taking like chapters black mysteries of Italian history. So Bonetti, Brait and Orazi decide to build a non-politic reading of the make disputed but doing to tell from a witness of the other political bank. So Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci hung and exhibited to Loreto square in Rome come mocked from a Communist ("Piazzale Loreto) and the massacle of Della Loggia Square in brescia comes told from a Fascist girl (because to the period the politics in Italy was this!!!). And, still, the well-known (in Italy) Moro Abduction ("16 Marzo 1978") comes seen with the eyes of an old Communist, the Massacre of Bologna (Central Station, August 2nd 1980, 10:25 A.M.) ("Bologna") comes seen with the eyes of a family of immigrants in Belgium (but of right hand...) and the victory of polytical coalition of Center- Right hand in March 28th 1994 ("Coprofagia") from a neo BR (that it is wanted to admit or no is a militia of Communists in Italy). So doing "Liberazione" became a raw reflection on the Italian society of the last half Century without to be political. Musically it is very raw, dusk, not easy but very immediate music com a lot of synth (I find it also catchy) with excellent lyrics and a smaller production that excites the meaning of the work.

Excellent music and excellent comcept. Even if it isn't conventional Prog because stinks of New wave but is 100% very Prog. Surely the concept is brave and not easy to understand if do not is itself Italian or it is not known the Italian story. However at least so it knows a story. That of nation that claims a power that in the centuries, even though divided in regional nations, the Bel Paese still today.


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Originally posted by Mandrakeroot Mandrakeroot wrote:

Originally posted by Shadow Kingdom Shadow Kingdom wrote:

Originally posted by Shadow Kingdom Shadow Kingdom wrote:

No love or knowledge for ARPIA?  Their 80's demo albums are masterpieces.  I know those guys and stock their CDs in my store.Big%20smile
 
The albums after the 80's a good too.
 
Smile
 
I've this album:
 

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Liberazione
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4%20stars My review is produced using this release: Pick UP Records PKPROG1904

Rating: 8/10

Historical band of the Roman underground the Arpia decide to build a concept on the story of the Italian Republic taking like chapters black mysteries of Italian history. So Bonetti, Brait and Orazi decide to build a non-politic reading of the make disputed but doing to tell from a witness of the other political bank. So Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci hung and exhibited to Loreto square in Rome come mocked from a Communist ("Piazzale Loreto) and the massacle of Della Loggia Square in brescia comes told from a Fascist girl (because to the period the politics in Italy was this!!!). And, still, the well-known (in Italy) Moro Abduction ("16 Marzo 1978") comes seen with the eyes of an old Communist, the Massacre of Bologna (Central Station, August 2nd 1980, 10:25 A.M.) ("Bologna") comes seen with the eyes of a family of immigrants in Belgium (but of right hand...) and the victory of polytical coalition of Center- Right hand in March 28th 1994 ("Coprofagia") from a neo BR (that it is wanted to admit or no is a militia of Communists in Italy). So doing "Liberazione" became a raw reflection on the Italian society of the last half Century without to be political. Musically it is very raw, dusk, not easy but very immediate music com a lot of synth (I find it also catchy) with excellent lyrics and a smaller production that excites the meaning of the work.

Excellent music and excellent comcept. Even if it isn't conventional Prog because stinks of New wave but is 100% very Prog. Surely the concept is brave and not easy to understand if do not is itself Italian or it is not known the Italian story. However at least so it knows a story. That of nation that claims a power that in the centuries, even though divided in regional nations, the Bel Paese still today.
 
You need to get their older stuff.  They released it all on CDR..Dead, but atleast you can support the band by purchasing them.
 
The older stuff KILLS that album.  I rank the first 3 (9-10/10)
 
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Originally posted by jimmy_row jimmy_row wrote:

^ Sounds like something BTF/Vinyl Magic should get their hands on.  How did you hear it, Jim?
 
I have a CD reissue, not sure if its Mellow or VM, I'll have to check after work. 
 
Haven't heard it yet though, it has yet to make its way to the top of the pile. 


let me know what you think when you do get to listen to it Clap


Well, played it 3 times today.  It's a half good album.  The 3-part side long suite on side A is decent Italian prog you will want to hear. It's a bit traditional, nothing weird, but quite enjoyable.  Side B is a bunch of singles of lesser quality.  It's a Mellow reissue.  I'll get a proper review up if the Italian team decides to add it.  My own opinion is that it should be here for side 1.  Big%20smile
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excellent James... I have a list of bands to be added... sort of got thrown off by not being allowed access to my collab page .. so have a few bands backed up waiting  to be added. Hasn't helped either  that I haven't been around much this week as well.  Putting them #2 on my list,  behind finally getting John Paul Jones added...unless someone did it already. Hopefully I've have them added by Saturday... busy times around here this week.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

  Putting them #2 on my list,  behind finally getting John Paul Jones added...unless someone did it already. Hopefully I've have them added by Saturday... busy times around here this week.


no way Mike, he's still yours   Big%20smile
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I haven't forgotten him...  just haven't really had any quality time with the computer recently. Looking forward to reviewing those albums actually... love  them.
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Hey guys, have you heard this one?   Does it deserve site inclusion?
 

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TONI ESPOSITO

Another musician from Naples, Antonio "Toni" Esposito is an ever present guest in many 70's albums by artists from that city. 
He played with neapolitan artists like singer-songwriter Edoardo Bennato, his brother the folk-researcher Eugenio Bennato, Alan Sorrenti (on his first three albums), Luciano Cilio and on first Saint Just LP, then also appeared on other italian artists' records such as Francesco Guccini, Francesco De Gregori, Perigeo and international names like Shawn Phillips and Don Cherry.

Starting as a drummer he slowly evolved as an inventive percussionist, well-known in Italy for his use of any kind of home tools as a musical instrument. 
His solo albums are mainly jazz-rock oriented, mostly instrumentals and with Toni's percussions in evidence, but his production level has gone worse in later records, always in a more commercial way.

 

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Toni Esposito (Rosso napoletano) Numero Uno (ZSLN 55677) 1974 gatefold cover - later copies with single cover
Processione sul mare Numero Uno (ZSLN 55686) 1976 single cover
Gente distratta Numero Uno (ZPLN 43015) 1977 single cover
La banda del sole Philips (6323 056) 1978 gatefold laminated cover
All the above albums have been reissued on CD though most of them are deleted. A recent reissue for the first album has been produced by BMG in 2004 (no.82876-63024-2) with mini-LP cover (that I have... Masterpiece!)


VARIOUS ARTISTS COMPILATION ALBUMS
Trianon 75 - Domenica musica
(with Rosso napoletano)		 RCA (TCM2-1178) 1975 2LP - gatefold cover - live album including Antonello Venditti, Mario Schiano, Perigeo, Rino Gaetano, Lucio Dalla, Stradaperta and others
Parco Lambro
(with L'alba nei quartieri)		 Laboratorio (LB/LP 201) 1976 live recordings from the 1976 Parco Lambro festival - also features Sensations' Fix, Ricky Gianco, Area, Canzoniere del Lazio, Paolo Castaldi, Eugenio Finardi.
  Stampa Alternativa (RP 02) 2005 CD reissue of the above with different mini LP cover - only sold with the book Area/Musica e rivoluzione by Gianpaolo Chiaricò


SINGLES (with picture cover)
Processione sul mare
Mercato di stracci		 Numero Uno (ZN 50347) 1976 both tracks from Processione sul mare

 

All the Toni Esposito albums are still easy to find and not expensive.
No counterfeits exist, the only LP to have a foreign release was Processione sul mare, issued in the USA with the title translated to Procession of the hierophants on the Peters label (no.PILPS 9012).



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Of course I have... Toni Esposito is one of the foremost percussionists in Italy, and I think he deserves inclusion at least for his early output (probably not for "Kalimba de Luna", thoughLOL....). I'll look for some of his CDs when I visit a music store next (probably later in the afternoon, when I get out of the office).
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