Artist
L'ESTATE DI SAN MARTINO
Marco Pentiricci (vocals, guitar, flute)
Riccardo Regi (12 string guitar, vocals)
Stefano Tofi (keyboards, vocals)
Adolfo Broegg (guitar, vocals)
Mauro Formica (bass, vocals)
Sergio Servadio (drums)
A group from Perugia with a very long story, that sadly hadn't left any
recordings until recently, apart from a lonely track on a rare split promo single.
L'Estate di San Martino was created in 1975 to provide the musical background to
a theatre play, Alete, with a sound mostly based on acoustic guitars,
flute and percussion. the initial line-up featured Marco Pentiricci and Riccardo
Regi along with Giuseppe Petrazzini (acoustic guitar), Sergio Spennacchioli
(percussion) and Marco Vagni (bass).
In 1978 the group took part in the Centocittą contest, reaching the final show
in Capri and winning the chance of recording a single for RCA. The record was
released, but only in promotional form and with another group on the back
side.
In the following years the line-up became stable with the addition of new
musicians to enrich the sound, with use of keyboards, electric guitar and drums,
and the group had an intense live activity mostly in Umbria, with shows based on
concept projects, and long tracks with large instrumental parts. The line-up
mentioned above was the longest lasting in the group's life, but among the
musicians involved in the group since the beginnings were also bass players
Antonio Abbozzo and Massimo Baracchi, Luca
Castellani on electric guitar and drummer Guglielmo Balucani (who also designed
the nice logo that appeared on the band's posters).
After the split, that arrived in 1993, Stefano Tofi, Mauro Formica and Sergio
Servadio have
remained in the music biz, playing with many Italian artists.
Adolfo Broegg, after a long experience in Assisi with the medieval-inspired Ensemble Micrologus
group, suddenly died in 2006.
The Alder CD, issued in 2006, contains a full show recorded in Perugia
in 1983, and it gave the group a chance to reunite once again, with many
concerts in their area.
In 2007 a new studio CD, Febo, is another concept-album written in the
early 90's.
L'Estate di San Martino appears in the Io ti canto, io ti racconto DVD
box set issued in April 2008 to commemorate Adolfo Broegg two years after his
death, with their own live set and a jam with Francesco Di Giacomo and Rodolfo
Maltese of Banco del Mutuo Soccorso.
In early 2008 Massimo Baracchi rejoined the group replacing Mauro Formica,
due to the latter's schedule reasons.
The third CD by this group is from 2012, entitled Talsete di Marsantino. A mostly instrumental album, it features some cameo appearances by Steve Hackett, Francesco Di Giacomo and Bernardo Lanzetti. The same album tracks have been rearranged in acoustic version for the 2015 CD, ESM#40, that celebrates the 40 years of this group.
Their latest album is Kim, a nice concept album issued in 2022, with new singer Andrea Pieroni now in the band.
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| Talsete di Marsantino | AMS/BTF (AMS LP60) | 2012 | gatefold cover - limited 300 copies issue |
| Kim | AMS/BTF (AMS LP170) | 2022 | limited 300 copies issue - single cover with insert |
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| Alder | AMS/BTF (AMS 106) | 2006 | live 1983 a Perugia - mini-LP gatefold cover - now deleted |
| Febo | AMS/BTF (AMS 128CD) | 2007 | mini-LP gatefold cover |
| Talsete di Marsantino | AMS/BTF (AMS 203CD) | 2012 | mini-LP gatefold cover - also in limited issue with a bonus DVD |
| ESM#40 (Talsete, il viaggio acustico) | AMS/BTF (AMS 256CD) | 2015 | mini-LP gatefold cover |
| Kim | AMS/BTF (AMS 339CD) | 2022 | mini-LP gatefold cover |
VARIOUS ARTISTS COMPILATION ALBUMS |
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| Italian Prog bonus CD (with Sere d'agosto) | AMS/BTF (AMS CD 100) | 2008 | unreleased track - bonus CD sold with the ItalianProg book |
PROMOTIONAL AND JUKEBOX SINGLES |
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| Il bimbo e l'eroe | RCA/Centocittą PB 6219 | 1978 | promotional single with picture cover - backed with Gli Urbevetus/Movin' in |
The 1978 single was only released in promotional form by RCA and distributed to local radio stations.
All the group's CD's have been released by BTF/Vinyl Magic's label AMS with mini gatefold cover and booklet. The third one, Talsete di Marsantino had a standard CD issue and a limited pressing with a bonus video DVD. The same album has been issued on vinyl in 300 copies only, some of which containing an insert signed by Steve Hackett and Francesco Di Giacomo
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Il bimbo e l'eroe - 7" single |
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Alder - CD |
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Febo - CD |
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Talsete di Marsantino - CD/LP |
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ESM#40 - CD |
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Kim - CD/LP |
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Alder 1983 concert brochure |
Click on pictures to enlarge
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| Live at Dusk Day, Orvieto TR, 24-sep-2006 |
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| Live "Io ti canto" concert, Foligno PG 28-dec-2006 Photos by Pino Antonelli |
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| Live in Spello PG, Teatro Subasio 22-apr-2008 Photos by Sergio Fortini |
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| Live in Perugia, Teatro Brecht 19-mar-2010 with special guest Bernardo Lanzetti |
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| Live "Insieme per Adolfo" concert, Spello PG, Teatro Subasio 26-apr-2012 with guests Micrologus |
L'Estate di San Martino has a new website, www.estatedisanmartino.it/
Thanks to Marco Pentiricci, Riccardo Regi
and Stefano Tofi for information and pictures.
A big thank you to Pino Antonelli (www.pinoantonelli.com)
for some of the photos in this page.
