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Garybaldi biography
The Gleemen quartet from Genoa is rather a typical for Italian prog groups, generally avoiding the heavily slanted symphonic influences most of their countrymen were choosing and were relying on a heavy guitar-based sound and were often hard rocking. Their first album (1970) is still regarded nowadays as a gem from collectors all over the world, although it will surprise progheads a bit with its very 60's sound and major Hendrix influences, and absolutely stupendous artwork.

Having changed their name to a more Italian sounding name (Garybaldi being some hero of the late XIXth century in Liguria and neighbouring French Provence), they proceeded to record two further album with the same heavily slanted Hendrix influences even if the keyboards are also a good part of the sound). The first one sports an astounding and complex artwork by future Italian comix superstar Guido Crepax. Sidelong tracks are a common feature in those albums and they are self-indulgent, either.

Fosastti then disbanded the group, and with drummer/singer Cassinelli went on to form La Bambibanda E Melodia that released one record late 74. Guitarist Fossati has reformed the group (although he was the only original member) during the late 80's but the general sound was much bluesier and released one album.

Somehow their short career is almost parallel to Flea/Etna group (they also changed their name while retaining the same line-up), developing the same kind of unusual (for Italy) guitarey hard prog during the same years.





Discography:
As Gleemen
- Gleeman - 1970 - CGD FGS 5073 - CD Mellow MMP 168

As Garybaldi
- Nuda - 1972 - CGD FGL 5513 - CD CGD (75262 2)
- Astrolabio - 1973 - Fonit LPQ 09075 - CD Fonit Cetra CDM 2036

As Bambi Fossati & Garibaldi
- Bambi Fossati & Garibaldi -1990 - Artis ARCD 014

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3.51 | 84 ratings
Nuda
1972
3.63 | 89 ratings
Astrolabio
1972
2.81 | 12 ratings
Bambi Fossati & Garybaldi
1990
4.30 | 10 ratings
Bambi Fossati & Garybaldi: Blokko 45
1996
3.89 | 9 ratings
La Ragione e il Torto (feat. Bambi Fossati)
2000
3.89 | 27 ratings
Storie di un'altra città
2016

GARYBALDI Live Albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)

3.44 | 9 ratings
Bambi Comes Alive!
1991
3.08 | 6 ratings
Live in Bloom (Progvention, November 6, 2010)
2011

GARYBALDI Videos (DVD, Blu-ray, VHS etc)

GARYBALDI Boxset & Compilations (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download)

3.19 | 12 ratings
Note Perdute
2010

GARYBALDI Official Singles, EPs, Fan Club & Promo (CD, EP/LP, MC, Digital Media Download)

4.00 | 2 ratings
Marta Helmuth
1971

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 Astrolabio by GARYBALDI album cover Studio Album, 1972
3.63 | 89 ratings

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Astrolabio
Garybaldi Rock Progressivo Italiano

Review by zeuhl1
Collaborator RPI Team

4 stars I ran into a fairly expensive beater copy of this first pressing online. I have mixed feelings about this band. While Nuda gets all the acclaim, there is a sophistication on side one of this lp, Madre Di Cose Perdute that rises above anything on their debut. Here, they seem to get all the pieces in place to create a well crafted side long song that hangs together pretty well. The usually over the top guitar of Bambi Fossati combines with the creative drumming of Maurizio Cassinelli that take this places they didn't go in Nuda. Keyboards are tasteful and always add to things. You might not notice this song takes up all of side one at just over 20 minutes as it drifts in and out of themes seamlessly. More of a psych vibe than an explicit prog vibe, but very nice nonetheless. Side two is a completely different animal-the band is live in the studio with a small audience. Here the music is less prog oriented and more akin to a loose Hendrix jam (a guitarist Fossati clearly tries to emulate). Not quite up to the recording standards of side one, this reminds me of the german band Neu! second album where they carefully crafted some excellent stuff, but then the album had to come out immediately and they were stuck trying to fill it out quickly. This jam seems like an outtake rather than something intentionally created for the album. Overall, this album is frustrating-side one is fairly essential and side two is a throwaway sidelong jam. An unusual take on Italian prog that everyone should try, especially guitar fans. 3.5 stars.
 Bambi Fossati & Garybaldi by GARYBALDI album cover Studio Album, 1990
2.81 | 12 ratings

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Bambi Fossati & Garybaldi
Garybaldi Rock Progressivo Italiano

Review by Mellotron Storm
Prog Reviewer

2 stars GARYBALDI released two albums in the early seventies, the first "Nuda" being very much a tribute to Hendrix it would seem with guitarist Bambi Fossati doing his best Jimi impression. Even the vocals at times were like Hendrix. Not very original sounding and 3 stars in my opinion. The second and final release of the early seventies was "Astrolabio" which was much less Hendrix influenced, and we got two side long suites. They dropped from a four piece on the debut to a three piece here with the keyboardist leaving. I felt this was a 4 star recording, and more original sounding for sure.

The band breaks up as the guitarist and drummer just can't agree on the musical direction. So in 1990 we get a comeback album from this trio and with Bambi's name now in the band's title. I think there was a compromise here, as the drummer gets his wish for poppier music, and Bambi gets his name highlighted. I have to say I can hardly tolerate this record at times. It is so commercial sounding to a fault. Like a shot at making some money it would seem. But for the prog fan this is a tough one. Cringe-worthy moments abound. We get eight tracks over 36 minutes.

No I will never play this one again but at least I have "Astrolabio" if I want to hear Bambi's gifted playing on that guitar. This one really is for those Fossati fans who just can't get enough.

 Astrolabio by GARYBALDI album cover Studio Album, 1972
3.63 | 89 ratings

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Astrolabio
Garybaldi Rock Progressivo Italiano

Review by siLLy puPPy
Special Collaborator PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic

3 stars The second album by GARYBALDI proved to be a completely different beast than the debut "Nuda" which showcased bandleader and guitarist Bambi Fossatti's extraordinary ability to mimic Jimi Hendrix and crafting prog tracks to build around the rock hero worshipping. ASTROLABIO which appeared in 1973 showcased what happens when band members disagree about which direction to take a band and in the case of GARYBALDI resulted in bassist Angelo Traverso parting ways and being replaced by Sandro Serra and while original keyboardist Lio Marchi still participated on ASTROLABIO but went uncredited and was no longer an "official" member of the band. Despite all the trauma and drama of band disagreements, GARYBALDI was extremely active on the live circuit playing at all the important Italian festivals as well as opening for bigger bands like the Bee Gees, Santana, Uriah Heep and Van Der Graaf Generator.

ASTROLABIO continued the friction between Fossatti who was more interested in the rock side of things and drummer Maurizio Cassinnellli who was more interested in the classical meets pop hooks route. This second album is a temporary truce between the two styles before the band splintered for good thus breaking GARYBALDI up despite a recent score on the Fonit Cetrra label which hosted Osanna, Alusa Fallax, Raccamondata Ricevuta Ritorno, New Trolls and many other key players in the Italian prog scene of the early 70s. ASTROLABIO features two very distinct tracks that have little resemblance to one another but both over 20 minutes long and swallowing up an entire side of the original vinyl LP pressing. While the first side swallower "Madre Di Cose Perdute" features GARYBALDI on full prog mode with less emphasis on Hendrix style heavy psych, the second side "Sette?" was presented as a lengthy in studio band jam which revived Fossatti's Hendrix worship in full regalia.

"Made Di Cose Perdute" starts out unexpectedly with gurgling synthesized noises and abstract guitar harmonics slowly percolating into some sort of form as if an abstract Krautrock sound was slowly morphing into a more bluesy space rock aesthetic of Pink Floyd. After a couple minutes of warming up though the musical style takes form as a more traditional Italian prog act with romantic Italian lyrics in a slow plodding space rock format with a Floydian bass line cradling Fossatti's bluesy guitar licks and a pacifying atmospheric backdrop. There are some haunting backing vocals that sort of emulate moments of "The Dark Side Of The Moon" as well. Had Fossatti traded in his Hendrix worship for England's most famous space rockers? At first it seems so but around the 7-minute mark the style jumps back into a more symphonic style of Italian prog with some bluesy guitar gusto. This is the type of track you keep expecting to evolve into something grand given the 20-minute playing time but it never really takes off into an epic prog journey but rather recycles the same licks and motifs ad nauseam until you are left feeling woefully unsatisfied.

The second track "Sette?" is even less satisfying as it was basically an in studio jam session that featured some friends and family who added some audience participation type sounds but basically this is another Hendrix worship sermon with bluesy heavy psych motifs fortified with Fossatti's guitar wizardry along with moments of contrast which allowed some classical keyboard runs to sneak in as well as other styles trying to cast their light through the dominant stature of Fossatti's overpowering guitar prowess. It's a decent track but sounds more like a series of improvisations that early hard rock 70s bands like Deep Purple would unleash in a live setting to distinguish their live performances from the studio tracks. While fine in a live setting it seemed like a big fumble to include this as half the album. Perhaps a decent bonus tracks on future reissues but as the main album? It doesn't offer enough meat and potatoes to give you that satiated feeling and when coupled with the underwhelming performances of the first track it's clear GARYBALDI was not firing on all pistons at this stage.

For whatever reasons this band which was clearly talented beyond belief and had the chops to craft some of the top notch Italian prog of the era seemed to squander every opportunity with substandard decisions that made lopsided albums. On "Nuda" the opening tracks were way too close to the original Hendrix material with The Experience and although the album was redeemed by a spectacular prog closer on the second side, the album would've been much better had the entire album embarked on the same journey. On ASTROLABIO these faulty fumbles are even more pronounced with a rather middle of the road first side followed by a rather head scratching incongruent second track. It's not a bad album by any means but seems to lack any focus or direction that brings it to the top ranks of Italian prog. It seems the band members were too busy butting heads to focus on coalescing their talents into a vibrant expression of unique Italian prog. I actually prefer the debut album to this one but it is a unique nook of the Italian prog scene that no other band followed. And to be honest i actually like the Gleemen album better than both GARYBALDI albums!

 Nuda by GARYBALDI album cover Studio Album, 1972
3.51 | 84 ratings

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Nuda
Garybaldi Rock Progressivo Italiano

Review by siLLy puPPy
Special Collaborator PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic

4 stars Led by the flamboyant and Italian doppelgänger of Mr Jimi Hendrix, the band GARYBALDI was the next phase of Gleemen which formed in 1965 and recorded one album with the lineup of Bambi Fossatti (guitars, vocals), Angelo Traverso ( bass), Maurizio Cassinelli (drums, vocals) and Lio Marchi (keyboards. With all members sticking around for the official transition into GARYBALDI, the band evolved its 60s heavy psych sound with prog leanings to a fully fueled and functional heavy progressive rock style which found the band opening for many major acts of the early 70s in Italy such as the Bee Gees, Santana, Uriah Heep and Van Der Graaf Generator and also was one of the few bands to find interest outside of Italy in countries like Germany, Switzerland and Japan.

This new and improved band that had graduated from a mere heavy psych outfit to bonafide prog band and released two albums with the first NUDA coming out in 1972 which featured one of the most striking album cover foldouts of the entire Italian prog scene. The three panel fold out featured a lovely gigantic naked woman in the jungle with animals like elephants, rhinos, monkeys, big cats and crocodiles using her as their playground! Musically GARYBALDI continued the basic sound established by Gleemen which featured Bambi Fosatti's heavy reliance on Jimi Hendrix inspired guitar performances only with more complex compositions including the side long "Moretto da Brescia" that features three suites. Despite Fossati stealing the show with his guitar tribute to Hendrix, the album features a strong band effort with impressive keyboard performances as well.

The album gets a bad rap for being TOO Hendrix-ish in style and if you judge the album by the first three tracks then you'd be totally spot on as "Maya Desnuda," "Decomposizione, Preludio e Pace" and "26 Febbraio 1700" sound like something off of "Electric Ladyland" and could even be considered plagiarism at times however i look at this more as a tribute to Hendrix done tastefully and with creative input from the band. Starting with the fourth track "Moretto da Brescia" the album sounds more like heavier Italian prog than The Jimi Hendrix Experience however Fossatti never abandons the guitar playing influence as it's woven into the framework of the more progged out second half of the album. This fourth track in some ways sounds like the perfect mixing of Hendrix's guitar playing within a more Italian heavy prog sound such as from Il Revescio Della Medaglia's early albums or similarly the first Procession album. This track is where the more ambitious keyboards are let off their leash as a warm up for the side long closing multi-suite.

"Moretto da Brescia" clocks in at nearly 21 minutes and features the three parts "Goffredo," "Il Giardino Dei Re" and "Dolce Come Sei Tu." Here the Hendrix influences are almost absent and the band sounds like a more traditional Italian symphonic prog band with strong melodic hooks teased out of classical musical interpretations and more romantic vocals. Likewise the use of keyboards dominates as do the many twists and turns that offer a true journey into a sprawling prog behemoth. Even Fossatti's guitar playing which is still prominent at times takes on a more Italian prog sound. This track is quite impressive and ranks up there with the best of the Italian prog bands and actually too bad that GARYBALDI didn't create the A-side to match. Despite the massive prog upgrade the band neither lost its flair for heavy rock nor psychedelic trippiness at times. Likewise despite the classical domination as far this three-part closer goes, GARYBALDI keeps the bluesy rock rumbling as well as adding some improvised jamming moments.

This one is a mixed bag for many with many alienated by the too-close-for-comfort Hendrix references as well as the lopsided nature of the two sides of the album that are very different. In fact they sound like a different band in many ways. This is probably a 3.5 star album for its blatant Hendrix worship but i can't help but love it anyway as Fossatti simply nailed the Hendrix style and took it to the next level. Sure i wish the first couple of tracks were more compositional distinct but overall i actually love the heck outa this album and it's boldness to take Italian prog into a very unique direction. The band however proved unstable and although GARYBALDI would release a second album titled "Astrolabio," only Fossatti and drummer Maurizio Cassinelli would return only as a trio instead of a four piece. Great album despite the overt Hendrix worship. 4 stars

 Storie di un'altra città by GARYBALDI album cover Studio Album, 2016
3.89 | 27 ratings

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Storie di un'altra città
Garybaldi Rock Progressivo Italiano

Review by la Volpe

4 stars Real score: 6 out of 10 Prog score: 7+ out of 10 (4 out of 5 stars)

Hailing from Genova, Italy, Garybaldi were, in the seventies, the outlet for Pier Niccolò "Bambi" Fossati's guitar wanking. A devout disciple of Hendrix, Bambi Fossati had enough sense to employ creative and intelligent musicians who helped balance Fossat's psych hard leanings with sensitive Italian melodicity and good technique, ensuring that their "Nuda" LP from 1972 was a minor classic of early spaghetti prog.

The group ended its activities in the mid-seventies after a series of lineup changes and a change in name, but emerged in the 2000s like many minor prog groups in the Boot Peninsula. However, Bambi Fossati was forced to retire by a serious illness that ultimately killed him in 2014; the band by then was led by the only original remaining member, drummer and co-vocalist Maurizio Cassinelli.

"Storie di un'altra città" is a pleasant, warm album of mediterranean rock with clear prog leanings. It is ripe with compositions written with intelligence and gusto like the hard/melodic cross "Sulla strada", which opens the album; or the prog divertissement-meets-faux-circus-vaudeville-music "William Fix", with David Jackson (yes, our beloved former Van der Graaf) coloring the tune with his saxophone; or the beautifully sung theme of the minisuite "Nove" (incomprehensibly divided into three parts, when the whole minisuite is less than 7 minutes in length). The tunes are never too long, so they never tire the listener, and the band carefully tends to each song with interesting arrangements and details, like a rhythmic variation, a catchy solo from guitarist Davide Faccioli ("Nova", part 1), or the addition of unusual instruments (violin, cello, sax, flute, bassoon, french horn) in strategic locations of the songs.

Leader Cassinelli and co-singer and keyboardist Jon Morra are able to take upon themselves the legacy of the group after Bambi Fossati's demise; and there is also a tribute to their late friend with the song "Vicino in un momento", the last tune he recorded and sung with the band before dying.

Garybaldi are not concerned with being innovative or with expanding the frontiers of progressive music: at this point in their career, their main goal is to provide the fans with a collection of good songs that can stand with dignity the test with their own past. In this sense, they create a truly beautiful, nostalgic album that, though not really engaging, will appeal to all fans of the more melodic side of 70s spaghetti prog.

 Astrolabio by GARYBALDI album cover Studio Album, 1972
3.63 | 89 ratings

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Astrolabio
Garybaldi Rock Progressivo Italiano

Review by apps79
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator

3 stars Garybaldi belonged among the popular Rock bands in early-70's, performing regularly at the most famous Italian open festivals and supporting acts such as Uriah Heep, Van Der Graaf Generator and Santana on their Italian tours.Prior to the recordings of a second album Lio Marchi and Angelo Traverso left Garybaldi, who were reduced to a trio with the addition of Sandro Serra on bass only.However the new album features Marchi as a guest musician on keyboards.For ''Astrolabio'' the band signed a contract with Fonit, which released the album in 1973.

This one contains two sidelong pieces only for a total time of 43 minutes, the opening one was recorded in studio and the second one was taped live.Both are good examples of guitar-oriented Psychedelic/Prog Rock with Fossati's guitar in evidence.Not technically explicit, both long tracks are based on atmospheric soundscapes, intense singing and Fossati's stretched guitar solos with a pretty old-fashioned sound and many moments with a quite loose playing.Some vocal melodies in here have a bit of a poppier tendency similar to 60's stylings, but the majority goes straight into jamming guitar fists, low-tempo groovy lines and some more fiery textures with Fossati's impressive solos in a HENDRIX style.The presence of Lio Marchi is responsible for some of the tunes close to Classic Italian Prog, coloring the sound with beautiful symphonic images or just supporting in the background with his Hammond organ.''Madre di cose perdute'' is propably the best of the two pieces, pretty solid effort with Fossati's displaying a wide variety of moods with both attacking riff scratching and melodic solos and Marchi's work being exetremely balanced.The live-recorded ''Sette?'' is even more guitar-oriented, tending to improvised performances, with ovestretched soloing and a less balanced sound overall.Still some of Fossati's most complex executions appear in this track.

Garybaldi officially folded in 1973, giving rise to a new Fossati project in 1974, Bambibanda e Melodie, which had a more jazzy but still charming style.Garybaldi were brought again out of dust by Fossati in late 80's, releasing two more albums, ''Blokko 45'' and ''La ragione e il torto'', both having a limited interest for Prog fans.An archival release, the 2010 LP ''Note Perdute'', containing some previously unreleased material, seems like a nice document, and in 2011 comes the release of ''Live in Bloom'', an interesting live album.

''Astrolabio'' marks the second and last official album of Garybaldi from the 70's.The opening piece tops up any previous or future piece recorded by the band, while ''Sette?" is rather uneven, abstract and less convincing, still some of Fossati's best guitar lines are included in here.Recommended overall.

 Live in Bloom (Progvention, November 6, 2010) by GARYBALDI album cover Live, 2011
3.08 | 6 ratings

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Live in Bloom (Progvention, November 6, 2010)
Garybaldi Rock Progressivo Italiano

Review by Finnforest
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator

3 stars An enjoyable evening of live Garybaldi

My first thought was how odd that Garybaldi are doing a new live album without Fossati, given how important his guitar was to their formative sound. Only the drummer Maurizio Cassinelli and bassist Angelo Traverso are around from the "Nuda" days. And yet the show ended up being very nice in its own right. I was never a fan of Fossati's Hendrix hard-on anyway, so the involvement of different people made little difference to me, frankly I wish there was even more change to report. That said, Fossati's replacement Ricky Pelle can burn it up with the best of them and there is plenty here to sink your teeth into.

The album is more of a hard rock/jam thing than traditional RPI, recalling bands like Flea and Osage Tribe. It is definitely a guitar-first (or would that be guitar-fest?) experience. The band pushes Pelle into heavy yet dreamy territories and then the song floats there giving him time to cut loose and wail. Some of the finest moments in this mode occur in the excerpt from Astrolabio's "Madre di cose perdute", a heavy and atmospheric number with tons of mood. "Il Volto Stanco Delle Gente" cooks like a Santana track with hand percussion and blistering leads trading with organ. There is a sweet melancholy keyboard progression with flanged guitar effect on Nuda's "26 Febbraio 1700". It's all fine rock and roll, though a little too much of the album's mid section is muscular jamming without much extra to interest me. But if you love long jams by the likes of Cream, Santana, Hendrix, Crazy Horse, etc, this album will be right up your alley.

My favorite track was the bonus studio cut "Appena Prima Di Cadere" which certainly makes clear this band could easily transition from live hard rock to making a thoughtful and interesting "Italian prog" studio album if they decide they want to. A good album although far from essential RPI. A special nod goes to the fantastic cover art!

 Note Perdute by GARYBALDI album cover Boxset/Compilation, 2010
3.19 | 12 ratings

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Note Perdute
Garybaldi Rock Progressivo Italiano

Review by Sean Trane
Special Collaborator Prog Folk

3 stars A rather strange CD+DVD release of this long-standing band that started as a beat group from the Genoa region, then morphed into I Gleemen and for our enjoyment as Garybaldi during the 70's. This luxurious double-disc affair with an extended psych triple-folding artwork (filled with erotic drawings on the innerflod) and picture booklet is rather attractive at first glance for progheads, but can only really satisfy Italian-prog loving completionists, because the contents are of moderate interest to pure-prog fans. Indeed, let's not forget that the band was more addressed to Hendrix-influenced fans rather than ELP freaks.

Apparently the seeds of this release were born when someone in 99 sent a bootleg recording of a concert dating from 73, this prompting the band to exploit it along with creating this DVD. So the album proper is made from a bunch of miscellaneous tracks half from their glory era, including the Gleemen album sessions (the rather proggy opening Volto Stando Della Gente), a rather surprising folky Harold from the Nuda sessions, and the intensely Hendrix-y Madre Di Cose Perdute, which seems to exude Astrolabio sessions (that's the Italian translation of the first track's title). Despite a recent remastering, these tracks sound dated ? there is only so much you can do with nearly 40-years old magnetic tapes. The rest of the album consists of three solid (read guitar-saturated) tracks recorded in 98, including a reworking of the Martha Helmut track from Nuda, but this writer finds them messy and too raw for their own good. As you can read here, hardly anything essential.

As is usual with Italian products, the attached DVD documentary insist a tad too much on visuals from well-documented artistes, much more than necessary, but it's nothing blatantly abusive of copyright infringements. There is plenty (too much?) of name-dropping in the background context to flatter themselves with comparisons with the acts mentioned. For progheads, the rockumentary spends way too much time on the genesis of the group in the 60's, especially when discovering what kind of atrocious soup they were dabbling in at that time, even if most 70's Italian groups went through the same kind of ordeal and paid their dues that way. Compared to their early singles-days, the Gleemen album seems a little too-quickly dealt with, and I must say that I can't help feeling a bit frustrated that so few minutes are spent on Nuda and Astrolabio, compared to their early and later days, but the good stuff is delivered correctly, even if you wish the live footage would've lasted much longer. Indeed, over the four decades of the "group's" existence, their peak period lasted two, maybe three, years, the rest being only mildly interesting at best, although not totally devoid of interest.

I can't help but thinking that this type of nostalgic release is a bit of an auto-satisfecit artifact, but I won't judge on its justification or pertinence, outside that it is an interesting (if partisan, as they might over-estimate their own impact on the scene) view on the Italian prog scene, but it is hardly essential for this writer. I know I won't keep this album, so if interested, you can always PM me.

 Astrolabio by GARYBALDI album cover Studio Album, 1972
3.63 | 89 ratings

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Astrolabio
Garybaldi Rock Progressivo Italiano

Review by Mellotron Storm
Prog Reviewer

4 stars In my opinion this is a huge improvement over "Nuda" the debut.Those Jimi Hendrix hero worship moments in the vocals and guitar work are not so obvious here, in fact they're all but gone. Bambi Fossatti the guitarist is such an amazing player he really doesn't need to imitate anyone. I really like the fact that this album consists of two over 20 minute suites, it gives Bambi and the band lots of time to stretch out and experiment.

"Madre Di Cose Perdute" opens with the sounds of birds as relaxed guitar sounds come and go.Drums and organ 2 minutes in, reserved vocals 2 1/2 minutes. A change after 7 minutes as it builds quickly and becomes fuller sounding. Nice. The guitar is soloing beautifully as the bass throbs and the drums beat. A calm before 10 minutes with guitar expressions.The beat is back 12 1/2 minutes in as the guitar continues. An earlier theme returns 15 1/2 minutes in and the guitar is fantastico ! The theme ends 19 minutes in as we get some laid back organ with bass to the end.

"Sette?" is actually a live track. We hear it introduced then this excellent bass line comes in with guitar and drums in tow. It kicks in at 1 1/2 minutes.The organ dominates after 2 minutes. It's the guitar's turn before 4 minutes to lead. Vocals before 5 minutes. Love the guitar here. Check out the guitar / organ interplay before 8 minutes. Vocals are back 9 minutes in but he's pretty much speaking the words. His guitar is talking too. It picks up before 12 minutes with singing. A calm a minute later then the guitar starts to solo. Incredible performance here. A change 16 minutes in as the organ takes over. The guitar is back after 18 minutes. A huge applause ends it.

A solid 4 star album.

 Nuda by GARYBALDI album cover Studio Album, 1972
3.51 | 84 ratings

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Nuda
Garybaldi Rock Progressivo Italiano

Review by Mellotron Storm
Prog Reviewer

3 stars As others have noted this Italian band sounds very much like the Jimi Hendrix Experience.The vocals although in Italian sound like Jimi as does the guitar.

"Maya Desnuda" is perhaps the most Hendrix-like with the guitar and vocals early on especially. Although the singing is in Italian he mentions Superman and James Brown sex machine in his singing. Lots of organ in this one too. "Decomposizione, Preludio E Pace" opens with experimental sounding guitar until late when it turns mellow and blends into "26 Febbraio 1700" . I like this.The vocals 1 1/2 minutes in are again Hendrix-like. "L'ultima Graziosa" opens with lots of guitar and the vocals arrive when it settles. Contrasts continue. Piano before 3 minutes then harmonica (I think). Piano and organ trade off before guitar and vocals end it.

"Moretto De Brescia" is the final suite divided into 3 parts. First is "Goffredo" with the tasteful guitar intro with light drums and keyboards. Fragile vocals before a minute. The guitar then starts to almost soar. Keyboards take over and vocals return late. "Il Giardino Del Re" is mellow to start almost spacey in fact. I like it.It picks up a minute in.The guitar sounds great before 2 minutes then it's the organ's turn. Reserved vocals before 3 1/2 minutes. A calm after 5 minutes then drums and guitar come in. Great sound ! Organ 7 minutes in and it still sounds incredible. "Dolce Come Sei Tu" opens with vocals and a mellow soundscape. A beat with laid back guitar after 3 minutes to the end.

A good album especially the second half, but the first half is a little too Hendrix-like.

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