Progarchives.com has always (since 2002) relied on banners ads to cover web hosting fees and all.
Please consider supporting us by giving monthly PayPal donations and help keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage") |
|
Post Reply 
|
Page 12> |
| Author | ||
COOL_DUDE12 
Forum Newbie 
Joined: January 23 2017 Location: Scotland Status: Offline Points: 2 |
 Topic: Italian albums to look out for?Posted: January 23 2017 at 15:00 |
|
|
In 6 weeks my family and I are taking a trip to Florence, Italy. While there I hope to make a couple stops to the local record stores (new and old). Any Italian classics I should be on the look-out for? Currently the only Italian album in my collection is Premiata Forneria Marconi's Storia Di Un Minuto.
Here's my current list of albums to keep and eye out for: Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per Un Amico Premiata Forneria Marconi - Chocolate Kings Premiata Forneria Marconi - Stati Di Immaginazione Premiata Forneria Marconi - L'Isola Di Niente Aktuala - Aktuala Aktuala - La Terra Automat - Automat Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - The Feed-Back Any further suggestions of prog, jazz and avant-garde Italian music (preferably found on LP) is greatly appreciated.
Edited by COOL_DUDE12 - January 23 2017 at 18:00 |
||
|
Stars and air find
Themselves here at night Cold and dark as everything Deep and wet and secret Carried off into their ethers |
||
 |
||
|
micky
Special Collaborator 
Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46828 |
Posted: January 23 2017 at 15:05 |
|
|
nice.. yeah album stores over there are like going being set loose in a striphouse with a wad of 100's and a bag of coke...
you are pretty limited there... ie .. there is a LOT you can get and find very cheaply there. You're best bet is peruse the top albums list and check out those albums, for the most part very well reviewed, and find the ones that float your boat. First recommended stop for you... AREA... |
||
|
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
|
||
|
||
|
andreol263
Forum Senior Member 
Joined: November 28 2014 Location: Terra de Cabral Status: Offline Points: 790 |
Posted: January 23 2017 at 15:09 |
|
|
Metamorfosi - Inferno
Barabba - Canto Del Vangelo Secondo Barabba Celeste - Principe di un Giorno Museo Rosenbach - Zarathrusta Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Darwin I Giganti - Terra in Bocca Dedalus - Dedalus Promenade - Noi Al Dir Di Noi Egonon - Risveglio Il Tempo Delle Clessidre - Il Tempo Delle Clessidre Quella Vechia Loccanda - Quella Vechia Loccanda |
||
|
||
|
||
|
micky
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46828 |
Posted: January 23 2017 at 15:34 |
|
|
^ good list... a diverse list which is the rub. It isn't all the same song and dance man... recommending RPI is hard, especially beyond the essentials (which the OP should check out). There is a lot of stylistic range in Italian prog.
I do have a hunch... prog.. jazz.. avant... that Area would be right up his alley. |
||
|
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
|
||
|
||
|
omphaloskepsis
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 19 2011 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 5921 |
Posted: January 23 2017 at 15:58 |
|
Micky's so right! I'm addicted to Italian. Area is my keystone Italian band. 2/3's of the progarchive's top 20 is relatively cheap. I know because I bought all of the top twenty in the last 3 years. And it was totally worth it. The rest will cost you 20 bananas or more. Todays Italian Prog scene? Smack dab in the middle of a Renaissance, Resplendent, and shockingly beautiful. Italian maestros inebriated on vitamin fortified red wine...spiked with opium and hemoglobin. So thrilling to glissade upon the crest of a wave, on a Venice canal, serenaded in your own aural gondola! I envy you!
Edited by omphaloskepsis - January 23 2017 at 16:09 |
||
|
||
|
micky
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 02 2005 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 46828 |
Posted: January 23 2017 at 16:01 |
|
|
||
|
The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
|
||
|
||
|
verslibre
Forum Senior Member
Joined: July 01 2004 Location: CA Status: Offline Points: 15057 |
Posted: January 23 2017 at 18:03 |
|
ALPHATAURUS – s/t GOBLIN – Roller GOBLIN – Il Fantastic Viaggio del Bagarozzo Mark NUOVA ERA – L'Ultimo Viaggio NUOVA ERA – Il Passo del Soldatto |
||
|
||
|
Atavachron
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 64383 |
Posted: January 23 2017 at 19:16 |
|
|
Io Sono Murple
|
||
|
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy
|
||
|
||
|
DeadSouls
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 28 2016 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 4255 |
Posted: January 23 2017 at 19:49 |
|
|
Osanna - Palepoli
|
||
|
||
|
Magnum Vaeltaja
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 01 2015 Location: Out East Status: Offline Points: 6777 |
Posted: January 23 2017 at 23:10 |
|
|
Plenty of great suggestions that have been floating around so far. There are a few that I'll just mention again because I think they're so darn awesome that they deserve to be double recommended:
Goblin - Roller Osanna - Palepoli Quella Vecchia Locanda - Quella Vecchia Locanda All of the PFM stuff up to and including L'Isola Di Niente, plus Stati Di Immaginazione Here are a few great albums that I haven't seen mentioned yet, though: Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso Biglietto Per l'Inferno - Biglietto Per l'Inferno Buon Vecchio Charlie - Buon Vecchio Charlie Cherry Five - Cherry Five Quella Vecchia Locanda - Il Tempo Della Gioia And, of course, this bad boy...  Il Balletto Di Bronzo - Ys The keyboard-based prog album to end all keyboard-based prog albums. I don't even like keyboard-based prog that much and I still think this one is a stone cold classic. Simply awesome stuff.
|
||
|
when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents
|
||
|
||
|
Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group
Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 32754 |
Posted: January 24 2017 at 00:05 |
|
|
Music listed as Prog here (If I had to choose one fave of this list then it would be the Leprino).
- Alphataurus (self-titled) 1973 - Area (the first four are great, but my faves are Caution Radiation Area and Crac!) - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso (I like the debut best, but love the first three) - Franco Battiato (love the first five, but recommend Sulle Corde di Aries) - Dedalus - self-titled - Fabio Frizzi - The Beyond especially and City of the Living Dead - Goblin - Suspiria (but various great ones) - Franco Leprino - Integrati .. Disintegrati (one of my all-time favourite albums) - Il Balletto do Bronzo - Ys - Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra - Orchestra Njervudarov - Con le orecchie di Eros - Osanna - Palepoli - Picchio Dal Pozzo - self-titled (wonderful Italian Cantebury sound) then Abbiamo Tutti I Suoi Problemi - Pierrot Lunaire - Gudrun (love both albums) - Reale Accademia Di Musica - self-titled - Sensations' Fix - Portable Madness - Yugen - Labirinto d'Acqua (a modern one, not sure about LP availability) My favourite Italians overall are Ennio Morricone and Egisto Macchi. Most any Morricone up to the late 70s is great, but Cosa Avete Fatto A Solange, Maddelena,, Citta Violenta, La Donna Invisible, Una Lucertola Con..., Milano Odia, Un Uomo da Rispattare, and Il Sorriso dei Grande Tentatore are some faves. Love his spaghetti western stuff too. With Macchi, Voix, Futurissimo, and Bioritmi are really great. And I adore Alessandro Brugnolini's Utopia. Berto pisano's Interabang I really like too, but some might find it muzaky. |
||
|
||
|
dr prog
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 25 2010 Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Points: 2449 |
Posted: January 24 2017 at 03:38 |
|
|
Il Volo Corte Dei Miracoli Maxophone Le Orme first 8 albums |
||
|
All I like is prog related bands beginning late 60's/early 70's. Their music from 1968 - 83 has the composition and sound which will never be beaten. Perfect blend of jazz, classical, folk and rock.
|
||
|
||
|
ALotOfBottle
Prog Reviewer 
Joined: February 17 2016 Location: Lublin, Poland Status: Offline Points: 1990 |
Posted: January 24 2017 at 04:20 |
|
|
Don't forget Raccomandata Ricevuta Ritorno's splendid Per... Un Mondo di Cristallo. One of the finest RPI albums in my opinion.
|
||
|
Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided.
|
||
|
||
|
zravkapt
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 12 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 6446 |
Posted: January 24 2017 at 05:12 |
|
|
Don't forget these guys...
|
||
|
Magma America Great Make Again
|
||
|
||
|
CaP
Forum Groupie 
Joined: August 20 2016 Location: Monza Status: Offline Points: 63 |
Posted: January 24 2017 at 06:10 |
|
|
I think Locanda delle Fate "Forse le lucciole non si amano più" is a must have.
If you are REALLY patient, you have 351 pages to check here http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=69541  |
||
|
E per tutti il dolore degli altri è un dolore a metà
|
||
|
||
|
Saperlipopette!
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 20 2010 Location: Tomorrowland Status: Offline Points: 10055 |
Posted: January 24 2017 at 07:38 |
|
-I recently rediscovered Perigeo - infact all their first four albums were (far) better and more inventive than I remembered. I basically agree with all of Sean Trane's reviews. As usual Logan covers about 90% of the albums and artists I'd recommend. I seem to have more of a soft spot for Le Orme though - four first albums again... and my Goblin-favorite is Profondo Rosso (+ I honestly can't remember Orchestra Njervudarov). They're stunningly beautiful* ..and wild |
||
|
||
|
||
|
DeadSouls
Forum Senior Member
Joined: February 28 2016 Location: Chile Status: Offline Points: 4255 |
Posted: January 24 2017 at 10:56 |
|
|
Arti e Mestieri - Tilt
Perigeo - Genealogia
|
||
|
||
|
Logan
Forum & Site Admin Group
Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 32754 |
Posted: January 24 2017 at 13:14 |
|
Well, my tastes have been influenced by your recommendations. Love Perigeo too, missed it. Love the Zeit you posted! Some Orchestra Njervudarov (not an album I'm that often in the mood for, but has some very nice music): Edited by Logan - January 24 2017 at 13:16 |
||
|
||
|
The Bearded Bard
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 24 2012 Location: Behind the Sun Status: Offline Points: 12859 |
Posted: January 24 2017 at 14:06 |
|
|
I third the recommendation of Quella Vecchia Locanda's debut. The first RPI album I heard, and still my favourite (not that I'm too familiar with RPI myself yet, not as much as I would've liked anyway (the old time and money excuse  )).
Or he could go straight to this post Pierre (hellogoodbye), one of this site's great RPI connoisseurs, made with his top 40 Italian albums a while back. There's some more list from a few of our other connoisseurs on the preceding pages of that thread as well. Happy treasure hunting!
|
||
 
|
||
|
||
|
Barbu
Forum Senior Member
Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30845 |
Posted: January 24 2017 at 18:44 |
|
|
Dalton - Argitari
|
||
|
||
|
Post Reply
|
Page 12> |
| Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |
Italian albums to look out for?
Topic Options
micky wrote: