here's a puzzler someone might be able to help with. A couple of years ago I was in a second-hand record store and the wizened old hippie behind the counter was playing a very cool album (or so it seemed at the time) of synth music (very 70s rippling moogy stuff) but when i asked to buy it the nxious gnome refused to sell it saying he was gonna keep it for himself - git.

It has nagged me for ages now and some of you prog people might be able to help - the album had an all-white sleeve it was a gatefold and the inside spread was (typically) racks upon racks of drool-inducing vintage synths. I have no idea who the artist was (in Vangelis style it was one performer) but I liked the stuff.

Any Italian ambient synth experts out there?

hmmm...i have a few suggestions

Franco Battiato's Clic is a gatefold sleeve all white but has black criss-cross lines on also...the music is kind of like you desribe...new agey...knd of synth stuff..inside is just a picture of him playing one keyboard though

the other band who made music like this is Italian Prog band Sensations Fix - ambient synth & guitar things more in the vein of German musicians of the time like Manuel Gottsching than outright Italian 'orchestral' prog rock though. But I don't know if any of there LP's have an all white cover.

Anyway two names to check out at least.

dave

If it was 1) Italian, and 2) a (late) '70s album, it has to be Take/Off by Sangiuliano! Definitely Vangelis-like in nature. Three long tracks.

You can get the reissue of that CD, anywhere. Try here: http://www.lasercd.com - http://www.lasercd.com

thanks people, will have a look for those!

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