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Points: 13032 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2007 at 12:05
Originally posted by MANDRAKEROOT MANDRAKEROOT wrote:

I haven't doubt! "Stati Di Immaginazione" by PFM is one of the best Prog album of all time!
 
You´re right Mandy, that album is absolutely brilliant!
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The track I've heard from "Stati di immaginazione" (the MP3 on the site's homepage) was nothing short of amazing... What a superb comeback for one of Italy's greatest prog bands ever!Clap
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Points: 13032 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2007 at 12:25
Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

The track I've heard from "Stati di immaginazione" (the MP3 on the site's homepage) was nothing short of amazing... What a superb comeback for one of Italy's greatest prog bands ever!Clap
 
Yay to be honest, i play that track every day when i visit the homepageEmbarrassed "La Conquista" wonderful song!
 
That kind of comebacks are always welcome, it´s not easy for any band to release a superb album like this after so many years, the whole album is brilliant none of the songs are weakThumbs Up

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Points: 5851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2007 at 12:26
Originally posted by Ghost Rider

The track I've heard from "Stati di immaginazione" (the MP3 on the site's homepage) was nothing short of amazing... What a superb comeback for one of Italy's greatest prog bands ever!Clap


Originally posted by Memowakeman
Yay to be honest, i play that track every day when i visit the homepageEmbarrassed "La Conquista" wonderful song!
 
That kind of comebacks are always welcome, it´s not easy for any band to release a superb album like this after so many years, the whole album is brilliant none of the songs are weakThumbs Up




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In Italy they want us album like this because in the normal record shop the Prog is rare goods (compliment!!!) and the shops that have a honest one (other compliment!!!) are really to count on the fingers of a hand.  So the scene is excellent like  albums and bands level, awful like distribution and still worst like knowledge (above all for the new bands).  Consequently I do not know the new bands and do not be able every week to bring myself to Bassano Del Grappa to investigate on the new bands (is far away 2h from my house, if do not find deal) also because do not know them and consequently would not know not even how to move me for a search in Internet. 

Here because us they would want more album like this... 

Uhm...  Already, there are.  But you go say it to the mass that it listen to Britney Spears or Avril Lavigne and says that are two big musicians (I have the doubt that play and sing their in the their discs).  Like result if is not for Andrea Cortese (that lives at Bassano Del Grappa) with the whistles that I discovered a genius like Fabio Zuffanti. 




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Yeah, the last Zuffanti thing that i got was Finisterre`s Storybook, excellent live album with their songs and also some medleys with their influences (King Crimson , Genesis)

Also Lazona being a completely different project by Zuffanti, is also excellent!!

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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 27 2007 at 18:56
Today my cds' stock has increased:
 
1) Triade - 1998: La Storia di Sabazio
 
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2) Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare (NCCP) - Medina
 
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3) Cittŕ Frontale - El Tor
 
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2007 at 01:14
I think we should add NCCP to RPI, even if the current denomination is "Italian Symphonic Prog". They were one of the most important bands in Seventies Italy, although of course Prog Folk would be the best collocation for them. I tried to put the suggestion forward in the Prog Folk team thread, though to no avail... Therefore, I think the addition could be made in ISP by you team members.
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2007 at 03:39
Yes, I also think so, Raffaella.
 
I should check a couple of album more and then we will be able to add the band. It is clearly true italian prog-folk, completely different from the english one, more mediterranean.
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Points: 5851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2007 at 04:25
 Ghost Rider wrote:
"I think we should add NCCP to RPI, even if the current denomination is "Italian Symphonic Prog". They were one of the most important bands in Seventies Italy, although of course Prog Folk would be the best collocation for them. I tried to put the suggestion forward in the Prog Folk team thread, though to no avail... Therefore, I think the addition could be made in ISP by you team members."

Andrea Cortese wrote:
"Yes, I also think so, Raffaella.
 
I should check a couple of album more and then we will be able to add the band. It is clearly true italian prog-folk, completely different from the english one, more mediterranean."

I answer:
"To my warning it is just how much have said.  There is not comparisons between the two versions of Folk Music and is also for this that the NCCP do not come considered totally Prog.  But it is a myth to explode. 

For Ghost Rider and Micky:  It have ever listened to the Crystals, band introduced in this Thread?"




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Points: 5851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2007 at 04:47
Yesterday I've added in my collection:

This new future classic album:
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FAVERAVOLA: "La Collina Dei Cento Castagni" (2006)

These classic albums from The Best Italian Scene:
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ALAN SORRENTI: "Aria" (1972)

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NUOVA ERA: "Il Passo Del Soldato" (1995)

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IL VOLO: "Il Volo" (1974)

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IL VOLO: "Essere O Non Essere?" (1975)

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LA MASCHERA DI CERA: "LuxAde" (2006)

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VENEGONI & CO: "Live... Somewhere In The Seventies..." (2003) (please incluging on PA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Points: 13032 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 28 2007 at 11:52

Excellent additions Mandy, i like very much that Nuova Era`s album, besides both Il Volo and Essere o non Essere?Clap

 

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Faveravola is a very good band. Don't play "La Collina Dei Cento Castagni" in car (and also "Il Passo Del Soldato" by Nuova Era). It's a very difficult album and  you risk to hate this album (albums)!!!
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Points: 5851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2007 at 12:08
I RECOMMENDED IN THIS SITE:

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LE ORME — I Successi

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4%20stars AD GLORIAM WITH IRENE

I have another compilation with first line up of Le Orme. but this compilation presents the remastered version of 18 songs of Le Orme firsts two albums and of the singles of the first line up. Basically (I read in the booklet) le Orme born with Prog in the head. But in Italy at the time is difficult to have a singles and albums produced in the other country and consequently the music is a mix of Beat and Psychedelic with complicated arrengements (but separated). But in the case of Le Orme this situation produced a handful of very good song, today worthy of discovery. For example "Senti L'Estate Che Torna" is a song for an album like "Collage". In general the quality of the songs are good, someone are very Beat ("Mita, Mita", "Era Un Anno Fa", "Irene" for examples), someone are Psychedelic ("L'Aurora", "Ad Gloriam" for examples), others are Proto Prog ("Casa Mia" for example), others totally Rock Progressivo Italiano (symphonic version) ("Senti L'Estate Che Torna") but two songs they would show that Emerson listened to the Italian Prog ("Concerto N°3" by J.S. Bach and "Blue Rondň A La Turk" by Brubeck).

Summarized: 18 songs for the 60's version of Le Orme. And in this remastered version these songs are very very very good (it would please me that they be discoveries) because haven't nether to envy those of 70's. And aged very well.

For always yours, Mandrakeroot.

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Points: 13032 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2007 at 12:26

Le Orme in their early years is not really my cup of tea, L´Aurora is a song that i love siging very much anyway, maybe it would be nice to listen that compilation

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About Le Orme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYN_PYd7bI
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2007 at 15:53

^^^

 
I enjoyed this video very much! Thanks, Tony!!
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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2007 at 16:09
i'm also glad you posted that video. now I have to relisten to the four albums I like by them and pay more attention to the drums... ;)
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Points: 5851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2007 at 16:21
Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

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I enjoyed this video very much! Thanks, Tony!!


Think that in two days it could see two concerts of Le Orme and i was to bed with back painful...      Cry
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Points: 46833 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 29 2007 at 18:22
Originally posted by glass house glass house wrote:

About Le Orme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYN_PYd7bI


you rock brother.. micky loves him some  Le Orme.

Andrea - GREAT sig hahahahhaha . Is there more where that came from hahah


Edited by micky - January 29 2007 at 18:23
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Originally posted by Mandrakeroot Mandrakeroot wrote:

Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

^^^

 
I enjoyed this video very much! Thanks, Tony!!


Think that in two days it could see two concerts of Le Orme and i was to bed with back painful...      Cry


that's not fair.....Cry
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