Artist

ALBEROMOTORE

Maurizio Rota (vocals, percussion)
Adriano Martire (keyboards)
Fernando Fera (guitar)
Glauco Borrelli (bass, vocals)
Marcello Vento (drums)

A five-piece of very good musicians from Rome, Alberomotore (this is how their name was written on their records, but many magazines called them Albero Motore) were aided and produced by 60's singer-guitarist Ricky Gianco who helped them with a recording deal with the newly born Intingo label. 
Their album had just been issued by the old Car Juke Box label and was soon re-released on the new label.

Il grande gioco seems one of those rock-inspired singer-songwriters' albums so popular in Italy during the 70's, with much more space to the voice than to lead instruments, prog influences are minimal, with honky piano and excellent but short American-styled guitar licks to the fore, helped by a good voice, and the album is a nice listening though with no particular merits. 
The only relevant tracks are Israele with lyrics on the Palestinian people and the closing Provvisorietà, introduced by a short instrumental (and much closer to a prog style, this time) called Capodanno '73.

After the LP, a single was released a year later, then the group disbanded. Some of the band members played in other artists' albums, with Fernando Fera being the most successful of them as a well known sessionman and film music composer. Fera also released an LP, entitled simply Fernando Fera Group (BB LP-8110) probably issued in 1981 and including 11 tracks between pop and library music.
Singer Maurizio Rota had a good solo activity until his death in 2010 and was also in a Beatles-tribute band that included former Libra and Buon Vecchio Charlie keyboardist Sandro Centofanti. He released a single in 1978, Un fiore contro il vento/Strade de borgata, (EMI 3C-006-18326), two tracks from the soundtrack of the film Non contate su di noi, that's interesting for the presence of all the members of Alberomotore.
Marcello Vento has played for a while with Canzoniere del Lazio and Jenny Sorrenti's band and had a relevant activity in the jazz field and as drum teacher. He passed away in 2013.
Bassist Glauco Borrelli kept playing as sessionman after the band split, then he joined the band of singer-songwriter Pierangelo Bertoli, later he opened a recording studio in Rome.

Il grande gioco has been issued on two different labels in the same year, and is easier to find in the second issue on Intingo (distributed by Ricordi), though never cheap.
The original issue on Car Juke Box, was released in a very small quantity before the label ceased to exist and is very rare. The record had an unusual CJB label probably only used in the latest days of this record company (see scan below).
By the way the Intingo issue was taken from the same master as the Car Juke Box original and carries the CRJ 00035 number stamped on vinyl.
Both labels were distributed by Ricordi and probably for this reason some copies were sold with a Car Juke Box vinyl and the cover with the Intingo logo.
No counterfeits nor foreign issues.

The unreleased Capodanno '74, included in the CD compilation Progressivamente 1973-2003, is in fact a slower and longer remake of the nice instrumental track Capodanno '73 from the LP Il grande gioco.

Bass player Glauco Borrelli has a website, www.glaucoborrelli.com, documenting all his musical past and present activity

Thanks to Alex Acquarone for some of the information in this page