Artist
TONI ESPOSITO
Another musician from Naples, Antonio "Toni"
Esposito is an ever present guest in many 70's albums by artists from that city.
He played with neapolitan artists like singer-songwriter Edoardo Bennato, his
brother the folk-researcher Eugenio Bennato, Alan
Sorrenti (on his first three albums), Luciano Cilio
and on first Saint
Just LP, then also appeared on other Italian artists' records such as
Francesco Guccini, Francesco De Gregori, Perigeo and
international names like Shawn Phillips and Don Cherry.
Starting as a drummer he slowly evolved as an inventive
percussionist, well-known in Italy for his use of any kind of home tools as a
musical instrument.
His solo albums are mainly jazz-rock oriented, mostly instrumentals and with
Toni's percussions in evidence, but his production level has gone worse in later
records, always in a more commercial way.
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| Toni Esposito (Rosso napoletano) | Numero Uno (ZSLN 55677) | 1974 | gatefold cover - later copies with single cover |
| Numero Uno/De Agostini (ZSLN 55677) | 2018 | single cover with 8-page insert - no.18 in the De Agostini "Prog Rock Italiano" series | |
| Numero Uno/Sony Music (19439 85679 1) | 2021 | reissue of the 1974 LP - numbered issue with gatefold cover and red vinyl | |
| Processione sul mare | Numero Uno (ZSLN 55686) | 1976 | single cover |
| Numero Uno/Sony Music (19439 85684 1) | 2021 | reissue of the 1976 LP - numbered issue with blue vinyl | |
| Gente distratta | Numero Uno (ZPLN 43015) | 1977 | single cover |
| Numero Uno/Sony Music (19439 91456 1) | 2021 | reissue of the 1977 LP - numbered issue with and red vinyl | |
| La banda del sole | Philips (6323 056) | 1978 | gatefold laminated cover with inner |
| Philips (811 001) | 1984 | reissue with single cover in the Successo series | |
| RadiciMusic (RMR-401LP) | 2015 | reissue with gatefold cover - 300 numbered copies | |
| All the above albums have been reissued on CD | |||
VARIOUS ARTISTS COMPILATION ALBUMS |
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| Trianon 75 - Domenica
musica (with Rosso napoletano) |
RCA (TCM2-1178) | 1975 | 2LP - gatefold cover - live album including Antonello Venditti, Mario Schiano, Perigeo, Rino Gaetano, Lucio Dalla, Stradaperta and others |
| Parco Lambro (with L'alba nei quartieri) |
Laboratorio (LB/LP 201) | 1976 | live recordings from the 1976 Parco Lambro festival - also features Sensations' Fix, Ricky Gianco, Area, Canzoniere del Lazio, Paolo Castaldi, Eugenio Finardi. |
| Stampa Alternativa (RP 02) | 2005 | CD reissue of the above with different mini LP cover - only sold with the book Area/Musica e rivoluzione by Gianpaolo Chiaric̣ | |
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SINGLES (with picture cover) |
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| Processione sul mare Mercato di stracci |
Numero Uno (ZN 50347) | 1976 | both tracks from Processione sul mare |
All the Toni Esposito albums are still easy to find and
not expensive.
No counterfeits exist, the only LP to have a foreign release was Processione
sul mare, issued in the USA with the title translated to Procession of
the hierophants on the Peters label (no.PILPS 9012).
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Toni Esposito (Rosso napoletano) - LP |
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Processione sul mare - LP |
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Procession of the hierophants - LP (USA) |
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Gente distratta - LP |
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La banda del sole - LP |
