Artist
PIERO E I COTTONFIELDS
Piero Cotto (vocals)
Adelmo Musso (keyboards)
Maurizio Scarpellini (flute, sax, guitar)
Aldo Russo (guitar)
Beppe Icardi (bass, guitar)
Luciano Saraceno (drums, percussion)
Piero Cotto (from Asti, Piedmont) begun his musical career in the early 60's with the Henghel Gualdi Orchestra, then as a solo artist. He lived for many years in Greece, where he had a huge success with the album Forgiveness. When he came back to Italy, he formed the group Piero e i Cottonfields with musicians from his home town (except Russo from Turin and Scarpellini from Bologna), that had their debut with a successful appearance at the Disco per l'Estate TV contest in 1972 with their first single Due delfini bianchi. In the same year they released their one and only album, with the long title Il viaggio, la donna, un'altra vita, housed in a beautiful gatefold cover. Despite some more pop-inspired tracks, the album is on a good musical level, halfway between early Delirium and Odissea, with very nice flute passages like in Cantico or the title track, and the powerful harsh voice of Piero Cotto (similar to Delirium's Ivano Fossati) in evidence.
The album went unnoticed and the group split after a
fourth single that was again presented at 1974 Disco per l'Estate, but Piero Cotto followed his musical career with a solo album in
1978, totally sung in English, and a collaboration with Turin jazz-rock
group Gialma 3 for their 1982 third album Gialma planet.
Piero Cotto has kept playing until the present day. Of the other players Adelmo Musso stayed in the music field as arranger, while Aldo Russo has a recording studio in Turin.
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| Il viaggio, la donna, un'altra vita | Music (LPM 2006) | 1972 | gatefold cover |
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| Il viaggio, la donna, un'altra vita | AMS/BTF (AMS 109) | 2006 | reissue of 1972 album with mini-LP gatefold cover |
SINGLES (with picture sleeve) |
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| Due delfini bianchi Via Mazzini 31 |
Joker (M 7122) | 1972 | both tracks from Il viaggio, la donna, un'altra vita |
| Il viaggio, la donna,
un'altra vita Cantico |
Music (M 7145) | 1972 | both tracks from Il viaggio, la donna, un'altra vita |
| Oh Nanà Uomo da quattro soldi |
Joker (M 7161) | 1973 | both unreleased tracks |
| Gardenia blu Passo su passo |
Joker (M 7170) | 1974 | both unreleased tracks |
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PIERO COTTO |
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| Piero Cotto | Eleven (ELC 25137) | 1978 | single cover |
Il viaggio, la donna, un'altra vita is another
rare album, that has never been reissued on vinyl.
It was issued by the small Music label (the same as the first Dalton
LP) and came with a beautiful gatefold cover by German painter Beate Müller.
No counterfeits exist nor foreign issues. The first CD reissue ever released has been made by AMS/BTF/Vinyl Magic in 2006, with mini-LP gatefold cover and booklet.
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Il viaggio, la donna, un'altra vita - LP |
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Due delfini bianchi - 7" single cover |
Il viaggio, la donna, un'altra vita - 7" single cover |
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Oh Nanà - 7" single cover |
Gardenia blu - 7" single cover |
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Piero Cotto - LP |
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Thanks to Aldo Russo for some information on the group
