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 yam yam wrote:

Next three are all by the same band, Perizona Experiment.

https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32397.
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32395.
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32396.

See also
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32398.
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32399.
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32401.
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32402.
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32403.

All are by Perizona Experiment and need looking at.

The founding members were L'ex Luthor (guitar), Piero Ranalli (bass) and Mino Vitelli (drums) - with Il Mùghen (guitar) and El Cote (drums) completing the initial line up. They signed with independent label Skunk Records and released their debut album 'Perizona Experiment' in 1999.

Piero and Mino left after this album was released, to join Areknamés, and were replaced by Gabin on bass and Herb-ert on drums. From what is written here about their official debut album Ora È Sempre from 2006, and here about their final release from 2008, it appears that this line up was stable from 2001 right up to the end, so I see no reason why it can't be included for the 5 releases from 2001 onwards above as a core line-up. There were "many collaborators" involved along the way though, so in all cases we have to say: "The complete line-up of guest musicians cannot be verified at this time. If you have information please contact the site", or something similar.

From the first of those two links:

"The last studio effort of the Perizona Experiment dates back to 2006, and goes to thicken the copious discography of the great group from Pescara, which we must remember already has a dozen publications behind it, including full-length, unofficial demos and live albums, and knowing about the complete works means entering into the reading of the volumes of a complete encyclopedia of the psychonaut - from the 'contaminated' space rock of the first records, passing through the subsequent wide-ranging psychedelic research contained in "Kuxan Suum" and "Hunab Ku", up to to “Ora È Sempre”, probably the most ambitious work, which encompasses accessible (but elaborate) rock and avant-garde tout cour. In addition, the lineup is stable on the ex Luthor (guitars, samples, other) and Gabin (bass), the drummers Herbert and Alessandro Paci, as well as the superb singer Silvia and the various male voices of Ebenio, Giulio and Nua. At the mixer we find Marco Ranalli (Insider) as usual, who also intervenes in some guitar scores. the diskette.
The material and ideas that make up "Ora È Sempre" were conceived in the five-year period 2001-2005, but never published on other CDs."

So, for the first album: https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32398:

- L'ex Luthor / guitar, voices
- Il Mùghen / guitar
- Piero Ranalli / bass
- Mino Vitelli  / drums
- El Cote / drums

It seems that El Cote was replaced on drums by Alessandro Paci, and Il Mùghen on second guitar also left the band in between the releases in 2000, and those in 2001, so for the albums:
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32397
and https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32399

the core line-up would most likely have been

- L'ex Luthor / guitar, voices
- Gabin / bass, keyboards
- Herb-ert / drums
- El Cote/ drums

For the albums from 2001 onwards:
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32395
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32396
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32401
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32402
https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=32403

it would probably have been:

- L'ex Luthor / guitar, voices
- Gabin / bass, keyboards
- Herb-ert / drums
- Alessandro Paci / drums

Discogs only lists the 'Ora E' Sempre' official release from 2006 for the band: https://www.discogs.com/release/4422267-Perizona-Experiment-Ora-E-Sempre, so I guess these other albums aren't too important in the grand scheme of things if the info we have for them is incomplete or perhaps not entirely accurate.

RYM just has three releases: https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/perizona_experiment, but no info for any of them.

There is more info about the 'Ora E' Sempre' official debut album here, but for three of the albums on PA we have no tracklists at all, and a fourth album has the names of the tracks but no timings.

A book called 'A Fistful Of Spaghetti' From the writers of 'The Crack In The Cosmic Egg' may have more info about the band and its albums, but it's £25 + postage: http://www.ultimathulerecords.com/fistful.html.

A 124 page digital PDF download of material from the book is available on bandcamp for a fiver though: https://audion1.bandcamp.com/album/a-fistful-of-spaghetti-audion-italian-scrapbook. I don't know if this is the complete work, or just a selection from it.

And that's about all I can do for this particular band and its albums I'm afraid. 

Thanks David, line-ups updated. Could you double-check if all is OK?
https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5528

Also, I was not sure about the live album.

Mysterious band indeed !!! 