IL BALLETTO DI BRONZO E L'IDEA DEL DELIRIO ORGANIZZATO

Attached to the excellent book of the same name by Gianmaria Consiglio published in 2009 by Eclysse, Salerno (available only in Italian, 190 pages containing the history of the band, a deep musicological analysis of the album "Ys" and many black and white pictures), the CD "Il Balletto di Bronzo e l'idea del delirio organizzato" contains some post seventies live recordings and unreleased studio tracks of Il Balletto di Bronzo and Gianni Leone and can be considered an interesting document of the rebirth of the band after the split up of the seventies.

"Intro" features just background keyboard sounds and the voice of Gianni Leone resuming the history of the band, part of the reasons of the 1973 split up and how the idea of reforming the band was born... Then it's the moment of "Technoage", recorded during a concert in Tokyo on the 14th of September 2002, followed by an excerpt from "Deliquio viola" and the first part of "Napoli sotteranea", taken from the DVD "Live In Rome 2008", while the second part of "Napoli sotterranea" comes from a concert at the Villaggio Globale, Rome recorded on the 19th of November 2002.

Next comes a good (although fragmented) synthesis of the whole suite of "Ys". "Introduzione" and "Secondo incontro" are excerpts from a Gianni Leone solo performance recoded at the Centrale del Tennis, Rome on the 29th of July 2003, "Primo incontro" is taken from the concert in Tokyo on the 14th of September 2002 and "Terzo incontro ed Epilogo" comes from a concert at the Alpheus, Rome on the 29th of November 2001.

Then "Nè ieri, né domani" comes from a live recording in Mexico City on the 9th of March 2003; ""Strano appuntamento" is an unreleased studio recording from 1987 while the last two tracks "Un'eccitazione nuova" and "Discoclub" are unreleased tracks taken from some 1985 studio sessions. To be honest, the unreleased pieces from the eighties are rather weak and closer to disco music than prog but the rest of the CD is worth listening to.

On the whole, along with the book this a good document of the band's history and a precious item, highly recommended to fans and Italian prog collectors.