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Posted: April 22 2013 at 03:48
Sagi, I think that Staltari album has been given a recent reissue, well at least on vinyl? I seem to recall Greg Walker getting it in not long ago.....unless I'm thinking of a totally different album?
Look at Pierre, putting up that Roberto Colombo picture, teasing us all lol....the lucky duck scored himself a nice CD copy!! I've never been jealous in my life about anything until now!
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Posted: April 26 2013 at 10:54
Underrated gem close to Stormy Six, mix of folk, prog, classical and jazz.
Combining the first LP and follow up EP from this peculiar and rather late in the game Italian folkloric art prog unit, the material from their eponymous debut co-mingles the magisterial prog neoclassicism of St. Just and Opus Avantra, the whimsical bippity-boop of early 70's French psych/proggers Komintern and the delicately askew acoustic configurations of Quebec's Conventum with sound effects and narrative interventions to mostly winning ends, while the work on "Specchi", their aborted second album (finally released as an EP) would take these preoccupations to an even more enjoyable set of conclusions, reformatting the suite like structures into song form bursts that tap a vein of perky eccentricity reminiscent of their fellow travellers on the early 80's Italian scene in La Pattona. MUTANT SOUNDS.
Well, I haven't seen it anywhere - just trying to be informative and a pain in the ass at the same time Man I feel lucky having bought it on vinyl a good while back.... back when I didn't even have a turntable!
If it's any consolation, then I too remember it as the bird album...
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Posted: April 29 2013 at 09:52
Dave, I do check once in a while for it on Discogs.com, but not often enough.
As for buying vinyl without a decent turntable, I'm doing that these days. I've got a piece of junk USB/turntable combo that rips that albun at ONLY 128kb, and it comes out sounding all hollow and tinny. Garbage.
Sad thing is, I bought a Peter Frohmader (Nekropolis) LP called `Ritual' a week or two ago, and I haven't been able to hear it in it's full glory yet. I can't even buy a download of it :/
I have a couple of his albums, mainly the first Nekropolis and his collaboration with Richard Pinhas(Heldon) called Fossil Culture, and they're pretty dark I must say.
Getting back on track with the Italian recs, then I heartily suggest people try out this little bugger:
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Posted: April 29 2013 at 10:29
Ha! Dave! Pierre's been pimping that little beauty in the Italian Den lately too!
Terrific album, due to give it another listen soon! I feel it's a bit bit unappreciated so far in my collection! I haven't given it nearly enough spins!
Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - April 29 2013 at 10:30
Me and my duck are attuned to one another - all I have to do is feed him daily with stale bread is all
That album though is really a long ways from most of the Italian fusion scene. To these ears, it sounds far more influenced by the more wild and untethered jazz rock of Miles, Mwandishi and Weather Report - than the more melodically fuelled acts such as Perigeo, Bella Band, Etna and Arti e Mestieri.
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Man I feel lucky having bought it on vinyl a good while back.... back when I didn't even have a turntable!
