I have about 10 goblin albums spanning between 1975 and 83. All I need is sentamente nero and the chi single. Anyone know if the song yell is on any album or is it just a single also?

dr prog wrote: Started looking at some Italian bands. I Have good Goblin and Banco collections and finding Le Orme to be the next best thing so far from Italy. Received Smogmagica and ordered Uomo and Contra. Some of the best italian prog I've heard. Strong compositions without trying to be too busy and not changing composition every 30 seconds like some italian prog bands. Really don't like bands such as Area. Anyway who likes Le Orme?

I have most of their albums only on vinyl - "Contrapunti" and "Felona e Sorona" -favorites-
Italian Prog at its best next to PFM

Le Orme is my favourite Italian band. "Contrapppunti" is probably the album I prefer. It's easy to talk about the influence of Emerson Lake and Palmer on their music, but Le Orme were also quite brave in their music, pushing it to results other bands in Italy wouldn't even imagine. Take for instance "Aliante" from Contrappunti: it would easily find its place in some electronic/krautrock masterpiece such as "Music from Harmonia" or "Zückerzeit". By the second half of the seventies they had also understood that the time was right for a change - "Regina al Troubadour", "Il Gradino più Stretto del Cielo", "Tenerci per Mano", "Se Io Lavoro" are all new-wave jems, delivered with the band's usual taste for melody. Their lyrics are also excellent - many people in Italy wouldn't say so, because back in the 1970s most of the public expected rock bands to be radically left-wing inspired, while Le Orme had a more intimate approach and didn't hide their catholic beliefs. But, I repeat, their lyrics are among the best you can find in Italian Progressive Rock: they have poetry, they're never pretentious, they retain a depth you hardly find anywhere else. Don't ignore their jewel "Florian", where they got rid of electric/electronic stuff and created music with acoustic instruments exclusively (violin, cello, harpsichord, piano, bouzuky, mandolin, acoustic guitar, several kinds of percussion). The result is really charming.

Le Orme, one of my Italian favourites. Collage, Contrappunti, Felona E Sorona and Oumo Di Pezza are my favourites.
And also their Live in Pennsylvania which contains a whole live version of Felona.
Fantastic band!

 

14 yerars ago my long distant friend send me 2 c-cassettes of classic Italian prog, very different styles: Museo Rosenbach´s "Zarathustra", PFM´s "Photos of Ghosts", Garybaldi´s "Nuda" and J.E.T.´s  "Fede, speranza, carita". I was instantly blown away into new universes and have´t looked back since. Although I had had heard most of the very finest classic Prog Rock albums, say "Close to the Edge" or Court by King Crimson I was totally shocked after "Zarathustra". Heh, it really was Zarathustra´s revenge for me because I had overlooked the classic Italian prog for nearly thirty years. 

Edited by Son.of.Tiresias - July 22 2015 at 04:41

Two collectable lps would be:

FELONA & SORONA   English version with lyrical translation by Peter Hammill. Quite difficult to find a copy.

BEYOND LENG   I had this compilation of early Le Orme and got rid (cos the coverart was rather plain) . Now I regret it.
One of the better quality releases by Cosmos /Peters International  label. Cosmos was out , like Chicago's Billingsgate label, to introduce Euro rock to Americans. They also released 3 early Osanna titles and the English RDM "Contaminated".

Just received Felona English and Italian versions. Sounds great. I have Canto, Uomo and Smog too.

At this point I find Uomo less enjoyayble than the other 3. Probably too many ballad moments on that album for me. But all fine albums. Top band. 

Edited by dr prog - August 05 2015 at 04:54

^ Everytime I listen to "Buonanotte" it reminds me of some tune, I can't tell which one. You're right, there are hints of "Fool on the Hill", but also something else.

Edited by NotAProghead - August 05 2015 at 16:47

Any other italian bands up there with goblin, banco and Le orme?

I have Verita also. It's pretty good although the drums are a bit up front and get in the way of the music a bit. I picked up pfm's 3 albums between 72 and 75 both English and Italian versions. I love The world/'L'Isola. 1974 is their peak. Amico is pretty good although lacks the hard edge. They should have stuck with the same vocals for Chocolate Kings. The songs and vocals don't match the quality of The world imo