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Todd 
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RPI / Heavy Prog Team Joined: December 19 2007 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 3472 |
 Posted: June 15 2009 at 16:20 |
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Yeah! I'd also add Duello Madre, Bella Band, Area, Agora, Cincinnato, Napoli Centrale, and Nova to the great Jazz-Rock bands of the 70's.
And current Jazz-Rock bands have to include Deus Ex Machina, Periferia Del Mondo, and the great DFA!
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Raff
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 16:34 |
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DFA are playing at Nearfest this weekend.. Looking forward to hearing them!
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Todd
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 18:49 |
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I'm so envious! PFM and DFA both! You're very lucky.
By the way, you asked about Dante's Inferno. The compilation is great, close in my estimation to the Colossus of Rhodes, which is my favorite of the several Colossus/Musea collections I've heard. There are excellent songs by Italians Nuova Era, Atlantis 1001, Court, Wicked Minds, Garamond, Il Castello Di Atlante, CAP, Notabene, Armalite, Corte Aulica, and De Rossi & Bordini. There are also excellent songs from non-Italians Yesterdays, Flamborough Head, Willowglass, Brighteye Brison, Matthijs Herder, Groovector, Viima, Serpientes, Tempano, Nathan Mahl, and Simon Says. There are other good songs as well (including one by Sinkadus, whom I love, just not this song so much). Overall it's an excellent album, one that does a pretty good job living up to its lofty subject matter! If you like these kinds of compilations, you'll like this one just as much!
Have fun at NEARfest!!!!
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Raff
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Posted: June 15 2009 at 19:59 |
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A real treat for all prog fans (not just RPI) which I found just now, by chance, while visiting one of the best Italian prog sites:
http://www.movimentiprog.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=772&page=1 This 400-page-plus book covers 1100 bands and artists from all over the world, and features a foreword by our old friend Aldo Tagliapietra. Maurizio Galia (formerly with Maury e i Pronomi) coordinated the work of the various authors of the entries. Of course, if you can read Italian, it would help a lot  ... |
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1967/ 1976
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Joined: May 21 2009 Location: Lake of Love Status: Offline Points: 423 |
Posted: June 16 2009 at 10:22 |
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Ohhh... I have first TONI ESPOSITO ('Rosso Napoletano') album... Great Jazz Rock!!!
See for Toni Esposito:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Esposito (in Italian... Complete page... English page is only a stub)
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jimmy_row
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Posted: June 17 2009 at 19:52 |
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I scraped a few dollars together so I'm going to get a few things from Greg Walkers sale; looking for some feedback here. in order of preference. let me know if there's a mini-LP version that's better (as is the case with Paese di Balocchi for example). I've heard #3 & 4 already so I know they're solid picks.
1. Stefano Testa - Una Vita...
2. Riccardo Zappa - Celestion
3. Jacula - Tardo pede...
4. Coral Caves - Mitopoiesi
5. Fabio Celi - Follia
6. Hostsonaten - s/t
7. Riccardo Zappa - Chatka
8. Il Mucchio - s/t
I'll probably get three or four of those and then a normal priced one or two (looking at L'Isola di Niente on mini LP and Officina Meccanic thanks to Jim a while back...)
Btw, I'm really diggin' on Murple's first album right now. Forgot how much I love that tasty symphonic keyboard stuff
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Captain Capricorn
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Posted: June 17 2009 at 20:04 |
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I have been listening to Il Bacio Della Medusa's two phenomenal albums non-stop lately & I have to say this band is wonderful! I can't say enough good things about them ...I hope that they'll make it to tour the US at some point ...otherwise I may be taking a trip to Italy
Does anyone have a link to an official band site?
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NotAProghead
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Posted: June 17 2009 at 20:29 |
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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jimmy_row
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Posted: June 17 2009 at 21:49 |
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Welcome to the club, best album of '08 IMO. |
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Todd
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Posted: June 17 2009 at 22:41 |
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That's a great list--you can't go wrong! Of the bottom four on the list, I haven't heard Chatka, but Celestion is pretty good. There are mini lp versions of the Zappa's (at least Celestion). I don't think there are mini lp versions of 1, 4, 5, 6, or 8, so go for it!
I'm with you on the Murple--I really like that style. The thing that keeps me from completely embracing that album is the surface lp noise on the Mellow version I have. I've heard the Akarma version is better, but I haven't been able to track that down.
You'll love Officina Meccanica! What a trip! But I do have to tell you that Rocky's Filj is a bit better, in a similar style.
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jimmy_row
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Posted: June 18 2009 at 11:02 |
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Thanks Todd great post. I'll do some research on the Zappa mini's, so you think they're much better than the Mellow versions? I agree with you on the LP crackling on that Murple album, I can't listen to it on headphones but my computer seems to minimize that.
I have Rocky's Filj and like it, partly why I'm going for OM, I really like that wacky eclectic style.
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Matthew T
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Joined: February 01 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 5291 |
Posted: June 19 2009 at 02:24 |
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Still at the Battiato and the problem I will have with Italian popular music from now on is
 ,does it measure up to Battiato. The amount of variety is amazing and this is what draws me to his music. I will get around to some reviews in the near future when the oppurtunity arises..........anyway on with this album (the reviews don't look to promising on this one ) ...aaah interesting listening
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1967/ 1976
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Posted: June 19 2009 at 19:22 |
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Matthew T... That listening...!!!
Great, great, great!!!
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Matthew T
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Posted: June 19 2009 at 19:54 |
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. Have not received Fleurs 3 yet but that came before 2. Anyway the Trilogy will be complete.
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Atavachron
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Posted: June 19 2009 at 20:09 |
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^this is what I gather, i'll just have to dive in someday.. I do see Fetus for sale a lot
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Matthew T
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Posted: June 19 2009 at 20:25 |
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Posted: June 20 2009 at 01:38 |
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Recently I've been into Sensations' Fix and Perigeo. Fragments of Light, Portable Madness and Finest Finger are all excellent (by Sensations' Fix)
 . Abbiamo Tutti Un Blues Da Piangere is my fav by Perigeo, while Genealogia and La Valle dei Templi also are good.
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Now is all there is. Be before you think!
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Raff
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Posted: June 22 2009 at 17:30 |
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Micky and I just got back from NEARfest, which our beloved PFM were headlining, and are still dazed and confused after the absolutely MAGNIFICENT show they treated us to yesterday evening. Having seen quite a few live bands in my lifetime, I can say with complete honesty what I witnessed yesterday was one of the best live performancs I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. If those guys had been British, they would have wiped the floor with the competition right from Day One.
Moreover, the other Italian band performing at the festival - Verona-based D.F.A. - gained another fan in myself after their amazing show of Saturday afternoon. Expect a review of 4th soon - I got to meet the band yesterday, and they were overjoyed to see another Italian there, so I promised them a review ASAP. Both of those bands made me feel proud of being Italian - something that doesn't happen all that often  . |
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micky
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Posted: June 22 2009 at 17:35 |
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^ yeah.. with all the idiots and minions running around Rome hahahhah (I just love it when someone uses minions to describe people. something about that kills me)
While Raff and I disagreed on GONG....I completely agree with her on DFA. That was pretty good stuff.. and normally I don't care two hoots for those fusiony type bands. Consider that high praise as it were for them. Great stuff indeed. |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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NotAProghead
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Posted: June 22 2009 at 17:51 |
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Raff, you know RPI and this thread are among the most popular on PA. Is not it enough to be proud? And I don't tell of rich Italian cultural traditions, special Italian "feel of the beauty" etc... Edited by NotAProghead - June 22 2009 at 17:52 |
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