Artist
ZAUBER
Liliana Bodini (vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion)
Paolo Clari (keyboards, acoustic guitar)
Anna Galliano (keyboards, flute)
Mauro Cavagliato (bass, guitar)
Claudio Bianco (drums)
Zauber, from Turin, only released an album in the 70's but their career went on with many more CD releases. A dreamy, relaxed album, Zauber contains 7 tracks with acoustic guitar, keyboards and flute in evidence, in a soft style not far from Pierrot Lunaire. Liliana Bodini's voice is rather thin but gives the music an original atmosphere. Some tracks, like Dietro la collina, have good symphonic inspired keyboard playing.
The band activity before the album release is documented by Phoenix, a
CD that includes 1977 unreleased recordings.
In 1981 keyboardist Oscar Giordanino joined the group,
an experienced musician from the jazz scene who had already collaborated with
the group in the past.
Founder members Liliana Bodini and Mauro Cavagliato,
with his brother Massimo on drums, have kept Zauber alive until the 2000's with
new CD releases.
Two members of the latest band line-up, Paolo Clari and Gianni Cristiani
(flute), have released two CD's under the name Clarion in 1993 and 1995, with
help from all the other musicians of Zauber, Liliana Bodini, Massimo and Mauro
Cavagliato, Oscar Giordanino.
| LP | |||
| Zauber | Mu (UM 104) | 1978 | single cover with lyric inner |
| BTF/Vinyl Magic (UM 104LP) | 2008 | reissue of 1978 album | |
| CD (selected discography) |
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| Il sogno (Zauber) | Vinyl Magic (VM010) | 1989 | reissue of 1978 album with 3 bonus tracks |
| VM2000/Vinyl Magic (VM010) | 2000 | as above, but with 4 bonus tracks | |
| Est | Drums (ECD 2239) | 1991 | 80's studio and live recordings |
| Phoenix | Drums (ECD 2256) | 1992 | 1977 recordings |
| AMS/BTF (AMS 148 CD) | 2009 | reissue of the above, with different cover and 1 bonus track - limited 500 copies pressing | |
| Aliens | Mellow (MMP 170) | 1994 | |
| Venti (live 1994-1996) | Mellow (MMP 319) | 1997 | as "Zauber & Dino Pelissero" |
| Profondo blu | Mellow (MMP 401) | 2001 | |
| Draghi e vampiri | Drums (ECD 2369) | 2006 | |
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ORIGINAL CASSETTES |
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| Gente 1981-1984 | AICS (01) | 1984 | cassette-only album with 10 unreleased tracks |
VARIOUS ARTISTS COMPILATIONS (selected discography) |
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| Profumo di rovina - Dieci canzoni dal Ferrante Aporti (with Anna, Eroina, Nightmare, Immagine) |
Drums (EDL 2159) | 1985 | LP compilation with the Zauber musicians playing in all the 10 songs |
| 70-74-90 (with Musica) |
Vinyl Magic (VMBOOK01) | 1990 | CD compilation sold with Paolo Barotto's book Il ritorno del pop italiano |
| Progressive voyage (with Il sogno, Le vele) |
Mellow (MMP 164) | 1993 | CD compilation also including Quella Vecchia Locanda, Il Giro Strano, Dietro Noi Deserto, Corte dei Miracoli and others |
| Harbour of joy - A
tribute to Camel (with Elke) |
Mellow (MMP 299 A/B) | 1994 | 2CD - also includes tracks by Evolution, Glass Hammer, Aton's, New Credo, Galahad, Consorzio Acqua Potabile, Finisterre, Notturno Concertante and others |
| Eyewitness - A tribute to
VDGG (with Theme one) |
Mellow (MMP 279) | 1995 | 2CD - also includes tracks by Landberk, Gizmo, Deus ex Machina, Finisterre, French TV, Consorzio Acqua Potabile, Notturno Concertante, Men Of Lake and others |
| Zarathustra's revenge (with Impressioni di settembre) |
Mellow (MMP 328) | 1997 | 4 CD set with 70's Italian prog classics reworked by new groups, including Finisterre, Ars Nova, Notturno Concertante, A Piedi Nudi |
| SINGLES (with picture sleeve) |
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| I lillà L'estate dei ragazzi |
Drums (ED 2090) | 1981 | as "Zauber & Sandrino Rocca" - two different covers exist |
| Dentro me Periferia |
Drums (ED 2095) | 1982 | |
| Io volevo diventare | Toast (TDSP 018) | 2014 | 1-track CD single dedicated to Claudio Rocchi - limited pressing |
Zauber is a very rare album, pressed in 500
copies, and only had a
local distribution on the small Mu label.
The
first vinyl reissue came out in 2008 on BTF, with the same single cover and the lyric inner as the original. The album has never been counterfeited nor issued abroad.
It's been reissued on CD with the new title Il sogno in two different forms, in 1989 with
three bonus tracks (Liliana, Id, Il sogno) and again in 2000 with a fourth one (Ipotesi), cover and catalogue number being the
same.
The 1985 compilation LP Profumo di rovina contains recordings made by the Zauber musicians with some boys from the Turin Youth Detention Centre; four of the ten tracks are credited to Zauber.
Along with their own works, Zauber also collaborated with Mirage for the 1986 mini LP W la libertà (Drums EDQ 2199) and with Cooperativa Teatro Zeta for an LP issued in 1989, entitled Clowns, clowns, clowns...proibito (on Teatro Zeta label).
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| Zauber - LP, cover and label |
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| Dentro me - 7" single |
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| Profumo di rovina - LP compilation |
Thanks to Alessandro Pomponi of Rockground for information and pictures
