CLICHÉ

Certainly the most enigmatic SS Cd release, this album consist of two different albums recorded in 76, although one content's worth, called Pinocchio Bazaar (from track 17 until 25) did not see a release until the Fonitcentra Cd reissue in the mid-90's, which uses the Cliché artwork and just adds the extra tracks and PB name. To further complicate things, this release starts on two non-album tracks from the same year (but yet another session), but we'll find them on later albums.

Clearly the album Cliché is probably the main reason why SS was approached for the RIO chart. By now (76), the Milan group had abandoned all folk trademarks of their early releases and played pure avant-garde free-form rock mixed with a variety of classical music, ranging from the ultra-)accessible chamber music to modern contemporary composers, even if you'll find goofy circus numbers like L'Escluso. Their music was often more complex than their previous albums (and certainly even stranger), but by no means do we come close to UZ or HC or even EFLB, yet; but it's slight goofiness might still resemble the Samla musical reign, but I wouldn't say that SS" humour is close to the Swedish wackiness that we're sooo used to. It seems Cliché was written as a soundtrack for a movie, which explains why the group shuts up on most tracks. .

The Pinocchio Bazaar "album" (9 tracks ranging from 1:15 until 4:45) slapped on the back of Cliché hovers around the same musical realm than its companion album and production-wise, it's almost impossible to notice you're on a different session or album,s it does not hinder at all the disc's progress

Certainly good value for the money music-wise, the Cd reissue lacks enough information or even the lyrics, but beside that nit-picking, it an be considered as their apex after Apprendista and MM.