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memowakeman
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Topic: Era Di Acquario Posted: May 08 2007 at 22:33 |
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Go ahead with the addition!!
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Mandrakeroot
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Posted: April 09 2007 at 17:12 | |||||||
See PM for details (send CD via PT) |
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Andrea Cortese
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Posted: April 09 2007 at 17:10 | |||||||
Whenever things are clear within the RPI/ISP matter, I'm ready to add the band, Mandy.
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Mandrakeroot
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Posted: April 09 2007 at 16:08 | |||||||
Uhm... No. But because the music of Era Di Acquario doesn't demand the keyboards.
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erik neuteboom
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Posted: April 04 2007 at 10:35 | |||||||
No keyboards Mandrakeroot ?
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Mandrakeroot
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Posted: April 04 2007 at 09:52 | |||||||
I think that Era Di Acquario is a strange band for PA.
In fact Era Di Acquario is a Symphonic Folk band. But for me it is better to introduce it between the ISP/ RPI bands.
Anael... "Padre Mio" is more similar to the New Trolls Prog song that "25 Or 6 To 4" by Chicago. In fact only the sound shares them.
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anael
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Posted: April 02 2007 at 20:57 | |||||||
Yep, great band, as usually another melodic band from the early italian period ; )
excellent guitarist by the way, Padre Mio sounds very similar to that 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago hahaha, and yep a very short album, but who cares! good to be remember this band Mandrakeroot. |
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Mandrakeroot
Forum Senior Member Italian Prog Specialist Joined: March 01 2006 Location: San Foca, Friûl Status: Offline Points: 5851 |
Posted: April 02 2007 at 18:31 | |||||||
This is my new suggestion. This is the page of www.italianprog.com:
Artist Michele Seffer (vocals, guitar, bass) A trio from Palermo, one of the few important bands to come from Sicily, Era di Acquario only released an album that, despite the title Antologia was not a compilation of already issued tracks. The album can be
disappointing for the prog fans as it's mainly based on acoustic guitar and
flute creating soft atmospheres like in the dreamy instrumental Campagne
siciliane. Before the LP the group had issued two singles, the first of which,
Geraldine/Arabesque had a rather hard sound with a strong bass to the fore.
The group had a three-piece line-up here, with guitar, bass and drums in the
same style as many important foreign power trio's, and it
included a different musician, Gianni Garofalo (guitar, flute) later replaced by
Angelo Giordano. A very active live band, Era di Acquario had a second album ready to release, with a new four-piece line up, when their first came out, but this never appeared. Michele Seffer is credited as composer and arranger on some 70's singles by Alcatraz, Hansel & Gretel, I Teppisti dei Sogni and others, but it's unclear whether he was in these bands also as a musician or not.
Antologia is a very rare album, housed in a
rather poor rough cardboard black/silver single cover.
And this is my review: ERA DI ACQUARIO: "ANTOLOGIA" (studio album) LP 1973 RCA Italiana (PSL 10565) CD of this review: 2003 BMG Ricordi S.p.A. (74321982862) Line Up: Michele Seffer: bass, electric guitar, solo voice Angelo Giordano: flutes, sax, clarino, voice Pippo Cataldo: drums, tumbas and percussions, voice Track list: 1. Campane Siciliane (3:37) 2. Padre Mio (2:51) 3. Idda (3:23) 4. Solitudine (2:46) 5. Vento D'Africa (2:25) 6. Monika Aus Wien (2:14) 7. L'Indifferenza (3:27) 8. Fuori al sole (2:04) 9. Geraldine (3:32) 10. Statale 113 (2:54) PA rating: 5/5 My rating:9/10 Very soft album because based on acoustic guitar and flute. but with "Padre Mio" and "Geraldine" in New trolls more Rock style (but more mainstream also if "Geraldine" is a very plagiarism). "Campagne Siciliane" (perhaps the more famous song by Era Di acquario) is sweet ballad based on 12 string acoustic guitar and flute and in this sense is a Proto new Age song. in contrast "Padre Mio" is a strange New Trolls boogie song and another in contrast "Idda" is an acoustic version of New Trolls but sung in Scicly dialect with Falsetto chorus. Ah, the keyboards are substitutes for a bottleneck electric guitar. Solitudine is another piece in "Campagne Siciliane" style but more boogie style remaining at the same time a sweet Folk song (but the synths... who played the synths?). "Vento D'Africa" is in the same style. As you will have very understood "Antologia" is a sweet game for flute and 12 string acoustic guitar. But if it is true is another true that "Antologia" is an album that it goes listened having in front of the eyes the typical sicialian landscape with its desolation, with an only color that is a village nearly abandoned that with absolute indifference it passes the days all equal with the bells that play, play and play (see "L'Indifferenza"). In this sense "Antologia" reserves much surprises and an album of absolute value is revealed. And the car runs fast in "Statale 113" (National road 113). "Antologia" is very interesting semi masterpiece (but forgotten) of Symphonic Folk. More fresh that in 1973 is another album for all of the Progsters. we want to rediscover this absolute gem? Edited by Mandrakeroot - April 02 2007 at 18:41 |
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