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Line-up:
Attilio Gili (vocals, bass)
Sandro Gili (guitar, vocals)
Paolo Piscozzo (keyboards, vocals)
Ivo Ramella (drums, vocals)
Discography:
LP - Gli Uh! (Kansas LDM 17002 - 1972)
CD - Millenovecentonovantanove (Anni Verdi UH999 - 1999)
45 - Addio sogni miei/Non sono solo (Kansas DM 1128 - 1970)
45 - Questo è amore/Il bene che mi vuoi (Kansas DM 1150 - 1971)
45 - Dormi qui/Più nessuno al campo (Kansas DM 1152 - 1972)
45 - Solo/Finisce qui (Luna Park PARK28013 - 1972)
+ others
This group from Biella (Piedmont) was active since 1966, with a rich singles production mainly based on foreign rhythm & blues hits' Italian-sung versions. Near the end of the Sixties they changed their style to a more psych and rock inspired sound.
Their only album came out in 1972 and included 12 tracks, eight of which also appeared on singles. The album is well played and is pleasing to the ear, with some prog-inspired tracks (Più nessuno al campo and Solo), some ballads and two cover versions, Dormi qui (Stay with me by The Faces) and Non sono solo (I am the walrus by The Beatles).
The group disbanded after the LP unsuccessful release, playing as solo artists or in other groups. The original quartet reunited for a new CD in 1999 and some concerts.
Their singer Attilio Gili passed away in 2005.
Discography:
LP - Ullu (RCA PL 31322 - 1978)
45 - Questo č il mio tramonto/L'isola lontana (RCA PB 6123 - 1978)
A singer-songwriter from Sardinia who had previously collaborated with Tito Schipa Jr on his Orfeo 9, Giovanni Ullu is worth mentioning here
because this album featured all the Perigeo
members. A good songs album, very
well played, this can be interesting for Perigeo fans though very different from
the group's own production.
In the same year Ullu released another singer-songwriter album, Il mio
diario (Philips 6323 065) and a single, Il mio diario/Vai alla deriva
(Philips 6025 210) under the nickname Leo Davide, with drummer Walter Martino (from Goblin
and Libra), keyboardist Sandro Centofanti and bassist Dino Cappa, both also from Libra and guitarist Fernando Fera (ex Alberomotore).
Line-up:
Fabio Fabiani (guitar, vocals)
Remo Baldasseroni (keyboards, vocals)
Aldo Parente (bass, vocals)
Sandro Laudadio (drums, vocals)
Discography:
45 - Preghiera d'amore/Taglia la corda (Help ZH 50051 - 1970)
45 - Oh my love/Let's get together (Help ZH 50059 - 1970 - English version
of the above)
45 - Avvicinami a te/Se fossi un'amica (Help ZH 50084 - 1970)
A group from Rome, formed in 1965, that released three singles in 1970 for the Help
label under the production of the austrian Eddy Korsche. The second one was the English version of their debut single. Their style was a
guitar/organ-led psych-inspired rock not far from early New
Trolls.
When bassist Aldo Parente, who tried to pursue a solo career as Folkaldo
and later Franco Maria Giannini, and italo-tunisian
keyboardist Baldasseroni quit the group, the remaining two musicians formed Il Paese
dei Balocchi.
The song
Se fossi un'amica from their last single also appears in a different version with the title Bob Corn in the Rock & Blues LP that Eddy Korsche released under the name Free Action Inc. also on Help (ZSLH 55009).
Discography:
45 - Arcipelago/Emisfero (Radio RR1060 - 1970)
45 -
Via con il vento/Fin che le braccia diventino ali (Creo N.P.C.100 - 197? - as "Unito and Optiamo")
EP -
Fin che le braccia diventino ali/La mia stagione/Marylou/Via con il vento (Creo E.P.C. 1 - 197? - promotional EP, issued as "Unito and Optiamo")
Mysterious name behind which probably hid composer Gian Piero Reverberi and the Nuova Idea musicians that also collaborated with him in The Underground Set.
The 1970 single contains two tracks that also appeared on the first Underground Set album, Arcipelago and Emisfero, here in vocal version.
The other single, whose release date is unknown, contains remakes of Via con il vento by Quelli and Fin che le braccia diventino ali by Krel (oddly credited to Unito as author). These tracks were also released on a promotional EP issued by the Creo label along with two other songs.
Discography:
LP - Antico adagio (Private pressing NO LP 001 - 1978)
LP - L'attesa (Lynx Z 00841 - 1992)
LP
- Antico adagio (Die Schachtel DS27/1 LP - 2014 - reissue of the 1978 album - 400 copies)
LP
- Frammenti da Antico adagio (Die Schachtel DS27/2 LP - 2014 - unreleased recordings from 1978 - 400 copies)
CD
- Antico adagio (Die Schachtel DS27 CD - 2014 - double CD with the original album and a bonus disc with unreleased tracks from the same sessions - 400 copies)
+ others
Former percussionist with Aktuala and Telaio
Magnetico, Pasquale Vaccina released his first solo album in private
form, with help from Juri Camisasca and always in
an ethno-jazz style.
A second album followed 14 years later, and a few more have
been released throughout the 90's on CD.
Antico adagio has been reissued on vinyl and CD by the Die Schachtel label in 2014, with a second album of unreleased recordings from the same sessions, which were conceived for the original double LP project.
Discography:
45 - Diavolo/Tiahvanaco (Tickle TCK 1314 - 1977)
45 - L'urlo del vento/Slow down (Tickle TCK 1322 - 1977)
A fantasy name for two singles issued in 1977 by Tickle. The records contain two funky/disco hits' covers, Disco inferno by Trammps and Slow down by John Miles, with two good level original tracks in a progressive style, the
slow L'urlo del vento and especially Tiahvanaco, with flute and
lead guitar to the fore..
The tracks on the B-sides had been recorded in 1974 by the group La Nebulosa del Granchio, composed by Valeriano Gaibazzi (voice and guitar), Gianfranco Pongolini (flute and vocals), Fausto Pedretti (keyboards), Giuseppe Bottarelli (bass) and Graziano Bassani (drums). The group was active for some years in the Parma area, only recording two tracks composed for a rock opera called Tiahuanaco, from the name of an ancient precolombian city (the name was misspelled on the label of the first single) breaking up before a French tour. Singer Valeriano Gaibazzi later issued these tracks under his name along with the two covers on the A-side of the singles.
Websites:
Valeriano Gaibazzi - www.myspace.com/valerianogaibazzi
Gianfranco Pongolini - www.gianfrancopongolini.it/
Line-up:
Antonello Chichiricco (guitar, keyboards, vocals)
Enzo Marcelli (guitar)
Antonio Antonazzo (bass, vocals)
Sandro Conti (drums, percussion, vocals)
Formed in Rome in 1972, with three members from the beat group I Diapason, Il
Vaso di Pāndora (unusually pronounced with the accent on the first "a") was
active until 1978, with a progressive rock style with symphonic
inspirations but even with ethno-oriental influences. Their compositions were
all original, lyrics having strong political contents. The group had a good live
activity in central Italy, playing with well-known artists such as
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso,
Canzoniere del Lazio, Inti Illimani, often in the "Feste dell'Unitā"
[Italian Communist Party festivals], but unfortunately they never recorded
anything.
Drummer Sandro Conti also played with
Quelle strane cose che, Corvi,
Samadhi, Kaleidon,
while guitarist/keyboardist Antonello Chichiricco stayed in the music field with
his recording studio and as teacher, arranger and musician.
Discography:
LP - Calypso (EMI 3C064 18239 - 1977)
After his past days with Saint Just and his
collaboration with Jenny Sorrenti, Neapolitan multi-instrumentalist Toni
Verde moved to London to record this album with help from very good Italian (Francesco Froggio Francica, ex-Raccomandata and Procession) and international (Lol Coxhill, Vincent Crane, David Vorhaus) musicians.
The result is a jazz rock LP with various influences, almost entirely instrumental.
After some years in the USA, he returned back to Italy where he still works as producer and composer.
Line-up:
Lando Ihle (vocals, guitar)
Patrizio Ihle (guitar)
Luca Ihle (bass)
Fabrizio Innocenti (drums)
Discography:
45 - La verde stagione/Lacrime sul cuscino (Numero Uno ZN 50003 - 1969)
45 - Milioni di domande/Come una rondine (Numero Uno ZN 50031 - 1970)
45 - Senza Elisa/Stella stella (Numero Uno ZN 50121 - 1971)
45 - L'onestā/Al nord (Numero Uno ZN 50141 - 1972)
45 - Principessa/Destino (RiFi RFN NP 16542 - 1973 - released as "Tavola Rotonda")
A quartet from Prato (Tuscany), whose four singles were all released on Numero
Uno in a soft rock style. The drummer was initially Mauro Sarti, who formed Campo di Marte with Enrico Rosa, also briefly in La Verde Stagione to replace one of the Ihle brothers.
The first single, havineg the same name as the band, was inspired by Grieg's Morning mood. The second single, Milioni di domande, was an Italian version of the Moody Blues' Questions, while Senza Elisa on the third sigle was a reworking of Beethoven's Für Elise. With a fifth member, keyboardist Paolo Pasquali, and a more progressive-influenced
style, the musicians changed name to Tavola Rotonda, producing just a single for RiFi with two longer tracks, but the lack of support by the record company brought them to disband.
The same group had also released a single in 1967 under the name Gems (Innamorati
unitevi/Seduto per terra - Equipe EQ0112), while the twins Lando and Luca Ihle made two singles in 1964 and 1968 and another one in 1977. Two of the brothers Ihle passed away, Luca in 2004 and Patrizio in 2017.
Discography:
LP - Tecnica di un amore (B.B.B. BCLB 0003 - 1973)
LP - Tecnica di un amore (Moving Image Ent. MIE005
LP - 2000 - reissue of the above)
CD - Roma drogata: La polizia non puō intervenire (GDM GDM
4011 - 2007)
+ others
This French-born composer moved to Italy in the 60's forming the
group I Pyranas, with two albums on Arc. With him came his sister Evelyne, who had some popularity as solo singer with the name Evy and the single L'abito non fa il beatnik.
After collaborating with many artists, among which Alan Sorrenti for his debut album Aria (where he appears as keyboardist and arranger under the name Albert Prince), in the 70's Verrecchia mostly dedicated his interest to film soundtracks, among
these Tecnica di un amore, also released on LP by the Naples label B.B.B.
and later reissued on vinyl and CD, and the recently rediscovered Roma
drogata: La polizia non puō intervenire, from a 1975 movie but never
released before on record.
Opposite from other soundtrack composers, Verrecchia used electric sounds rather
than orchestral arrangements, and the recent CD contains some interesting tracks
in rock and blues style, with some vague psychedelic influences. Among the
musicians playing in this soundtrack are Cyan,
Baba Yaga, Toni
Esposito and singer Sammy Barbot.
He later worked as producer using the name Albert Weyman.
Websites:
Evelyne Lanton/Evy - www.evelynebelleepoque.com (a page is dedicated to her brother Albert Weyman/Verrecchia)
Line-up:
Miky Rissolo (vocals, guitar)
Claudio Zoppi (keyboards)
Carlo Buratti (bass)
Silvio Cortassa (drums)
Discography:
45 - Lo stalliere/Giorni neri (Sombrero DM 210 - 1982)
A quartet from Pinerolo, near Turin, formed in 1975, Vieta were only active in their area, and released a single with some PFM influences in the A-side. According to some sources the single was issued in
1977, but the press cuttings used as background for the cover can be dated
around 1982, according to the news they contain.
Rissolo and Zoppi also played in the first line-up of La Cellula Generatrice, active between 1977 and 1978.
Line-up:
Alberto Borrini (guitar)
Riccardo Bruni (keyboards)
Riccardo Malatesta (bass)
Elio Caredda (drums)
From La Spezia (Liguria), the group Vita Postuma was formed in 1970 as a quartet, with the first guitarist Franco Tasselli and a repertoire made of cover versions of English rock groups' hits. With new guitarist Borrini, who joined the band in 1971, they started playing original material, and played at the II Festival della Musica d'Avanguardia e Nuove Tendenze held in Rome in June 1972 with the most important Italian groups.
Guitarist Borrini left the group in 1973 and the remaining three kept playing in a more symphonic style, helped by the entrance of flute player Ettore Giorgi a year later.
The group broke up in 1975, having had a live activity mostly based in their home town.
Websites:
Vita Postuma - digilander.libero.it/vitapostuma
Line-up:
Enzo Maolucci (vocals, guitar)
Paolo Fiori (bass, vocals)
Lino Avigliano (drums)
Discography:
CD - Dimensioni solari (AMS/BTF AMS 180CD - 2010)
45 - Strega d'aprile/Una ballata per Mike McCoy (Le Vite Parallele 021 - 1970 - promo-only)
A group from Turin, that only released a single at the time, issued to support the campaign of three candidates to the city elections of June 1970. The style was a folk rock with many "sixties" influences. Along with the two single tracks, the group had recorded many others in the same session in 1969 and eight of these appear on the CD Dimensioni solari issued in 2010. The CD also contains five other songs from 1970 recorded for a demo with a five-piece line-up featuring Maolucci and Fiori along with Giorgio Bianco (harmonica), Mario Sala (guitar) and Beppo Laudano (percussion).
All the CD tracks come from the original acetates and the non-perfect recording quality and the lack of production make this record a naive statement of the transition between the beat sound and early progressive.
Enzo Maolucci later continued his musical activity releasing various LP and singles since 1976.
Another group called Le Vite Parallele, that issued a single,
Ingenuità/Ciao Amore (M.E.C. MC4003) in the second half of the 70's, had no relation with this.
Line-up:
Enrico Borri (vocals, guitar)
Rinaldo Prandoni (guitar, vocals)
Dorino Menzaghi (keyboards)
Tony Dresti (bass)
Andrea Pimpinelli (drums)
Discography:
45 - Il cuore brucia/Un anno una stagione (CGO IV 549 - 1970)
45 - Strega/La lunga strada (CGO IV 565 - 1971)
45 - Black magic woman/By my side (Montreal V1003 - 1971 - as "The Vocals")
45 - Pane amore e fantasia/Ieri e domani (Carosello CI 20325 - 1972 - as "Karma 5" - promo-only single)
Formed in the Varese area in the second half of the 60's, this group, like others on the same CGO label (Macchie
Rosse, The Juniors), issued singles
containing foreign hits' covers with original compositions on the B-side.
The
first single contained Into the fire by Deep Purple, translated as Il cuore
brucia, while Black magic woman by Fleetwood Mac became Strega for the following one. The same song was also issued in original form on a different label.
After the last single and with new members Klaus Tiscione (bass) and Walter Comizzoli (drums) I Vocals changed name to Karma 5 releasing another single. Prandoni, Tiscione and Comizzoli continued as In Tre sulla Strada.
Discography:
LP - Le voci blu (Mimo ZSLM 55087 - 1972)
45 - Sitar/Emanuela Gianna Luisella (Mimo ZM 50054
- 1970)
45 - Cosa non pagherei/Una vecchia foto (Mimo ZM
50097 - 1970)
45 - Senti..sentimenti Revival day (Mimo ZM 50216 - 1972)
A female pop trio, the names of the three singers were also in their first single's B side. They only released three singles and an album, housed in a nice triple gatefold cover.
Discography:
LP - Il volo di Icaro (Studiosound SSL 0100 - 1978)
Entirely composed by Alessandro Lencioni, singer and keyboardist from Tuscany, this self-produced ten-track album, inspired by the myth of Icarus, was recorded in Florence and a group of seven musicians from Viareggio helped him. The style is a melodic soft prog.
Discography:
45 - Un amore per noia/I will beg (Condor TV 25 - 1974)
+ others
A melodic pop band from Savona, whose only interesting track is I will beg, released on B side of a 1974 single. One of the band members was later in I Signori della Galassia.
Thanks to Marco Catellani, Luigi Papi, Antonello Chichiricco, Fabio Fabiani, Lorenzo Pittan of Amarcord, Ubaldo Cibei (Franco), Claudio Ponti, Mirko Ferrarini, John N.Martin, Gianfranco Pongolini, Federico Bordo, for some of the information and pictures on this page
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