Formed by ex- http://www.italianprog.com/a_arti.htm - Arti & Mestieri guitarist Luigi "Gigi" Venegoni and taking its name by him, this was an open band which more than twenty musicians collaborated with during the years. A stable nucleus of the six musicians above recorded the band's two LP's on http://www.italianprog.com/l_cramps.htm - Cramps , being augmented in the studio by guest musicians like sax players Claudio Pascoli and Maurizio Gianotti.

More jazz-rock oriented than http://www.italianprog.com/a_arti.htm - Arti & Mestieri , Venegoni & Co. are always ideally close to the old group, as demonstrated by Memoria on their first album, a reworking of the Positivo/Negativo theme from the old band's Tilt album. Their music is instrumental, obviously dominated by Venegoni's fluid guitar playing.

Though definitely less impressive and prog-inspired than the first two http://www.italianprog.com/a_arti.htm - Arti & Mestieri albums, both Rumore rosso and Sarabanda can be an interesting listen for jazz-rock fans.

Two later studio albums on CD by Venegoni, Nocturne (as a trio with Marco Cimino from http://www.italianprog.com/a_errata.htm - Errata Corrige and Marino Paire) and Mosaico were more in a new-age style, while the recent live CD's Rumore rosso vivo and Live...somewhere in the seventies... feature registrazione lives from different line-ups in 1978 and 1979.

Rumore rosso - LP

Sarabanda - LP

Rumore rosso vivo - CD cover

Live...somewhere in the seventies... - CD cover

Gigi Venegoni (guitar, bass, percussion)
Ludovico Einaudi (keyboards)
Luca Francesconi (keyboards)
Ciro Buttari (percussion, vocals, piano)
Pietro Pirelli (percussion)
Massimo Aimone (drums)