The Italian Prog Appreciation den

You're welcome!

So we should check the following albums (that I don't know):

1) Desperation (1973)
2) La Città che Io Vorrei (1973)
3) Tato Tomaso's Guitar (1974)

plus a bunch of singles.

P.S. unortunately no cd releases for what I know.

2nd P.S. the great album Pigro from 1978 is out of print!!! Can't find a cd copy!!!!


Edited by Andrea Cortese - November 19 2012 at 11:52

Nice clips Andrea.....thanks for digging those up

Found something interesting and useful, guys. A bunch of tracks from the Desperation album:


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Edited by Andrea Cortese - November 19 2012 at 15:14

Jim, that's one of my top five of modern RPI. But it must be said that up to now I only bought five albums

You will see (hear) Jim. there's a great songwriting here, almost as great as my top 1 Franco Maria Giannini's Affresco. BTW, I just noticed than Giannini wrote his songs with Gianni Dell'orso, the brother of Edda Dell'Orso, the voice of Morricone. Strange how everything is connected.

Thanks, Dread! I'll look into it myself, there's one or two other items from Amazon.com I've been stalling on getting, so this just gives me an excuse!

If you're in Melbourne, are you off to the Goblin concert on Wednesday night?

Pierre, I forgot to mention, I've heard that second `Ping Pong' album, really good!! A lovely nice mix of sophisticated adult pop, jazzy playing and progressive workouts. The final track `Caro Guida' sounds like a cross between the later Beach Boys songs, modern band Super Furry Animals and the more psychedelic stuff by an American singer called Matthew Sweet!! Not sure if those names mean anything!

What a wonderful album! I've wondered, is the first album also good?

Pity both albums aren't released on one CD!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - November 19 2012 at 22:07

Yep, looking forward to it! I was able to pull an emergency `shift request' for a day off work luckily! Tickets were only $40, which I was pretty amazed by!

Sigh, if only this was the beginning of an `Italian Prog invasion' of RPI bands coming to play in Australia - wishful thnking, I suppose!

OK, take a deep breath. 

This is interesting and bizarre.  Here's a guy showing off his RPI vinyl collection.  I loved some of his comments and the chance to see some vinyl I've never seen.  The weird part is that the guy is simultaneously dealing with some personal issue/debate he is going through with a friend......the bouncing back and forth is funny/strange.  Why he chose to have that conversation publicly as a part of his homage to RPI is beyond me, but heh, it's his video!
The majority of this occurs in the first 4 1/2 minutes, so skip to 4:30 if you just want to see his commentary on the vinyl.
I loved seeing some of this rare stuff I'd only seen on CD before.  

THANKS JIM  THAT IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC ! Latte e miele ? Coffee and milk ?