An incredible cover painting again on the top album. Really could stare at that image for hours.
From discogs:
Songwriter from writing unusual, rather ahead of its time. He merged the song writing with suggestions made by the Italian new-wave English late 70s. It is also busy producing other artists, like the punk / rock band from Trieste of "Revolver". It has long been disk-jockey for Radio Capodistria. Born in Trieste in 1951, he debuted with the album "Il Mare", produced in 1976 from label "Numero Uno" of Lucio Battisti. The album still immature, proposed a melodic rock, very Mediterranean. Subsequent record achievements are "Ti ricordi, Vienna?", Recorded in 1977 for RCA and "Santi ed eroi" came out in 1979, produced by label "Philips" and distributed by Phonogram. The album is pleasant but modest success. So we must wait several years to see her release a new product. In 1983 proposes evil thoughts, recorded for the CGD, his best-known record, which is however also the last. This is an excellent product, with much original music as well as the lyrics. Although the arrangements are very compact. However, for a while you hear more about him. He recently published a new work, containing unreleased tracks. The album is titled "Europa Hotel" and was published by the EBS. The guidelines of his poetry remain unchanged, the inspiration of his Central European music goes well with the "rudeness" of the Anglo-Saxon sounds.
A bit oversold, perhaps, as is customary for these little blurbs.
In this blog I've posted some really stunningly beautiful Italian albums that generally were too unknown for their own good, including the much-loved Ullu and Sage, and another I never posted, the amazing Dream album by Baldassare with the absolutely astonishing 1977 hit (haha, of course it was never a hit!) called Sing. I strongly recommend you seek that one out, if you at all can, a true lost gem.
Anyways, as you might expect the 1976 debut from D'Eliso is also incredible. The genre description is all over the map but for the most part this is singer-songwriter with a gentle touch, orchestral or chamber backing (like Ullu), and a little bit of proggish inventiveness.
A great example of the latter quality is the Cantastorie Equilibrista:
Here the beauty consists firstly in the very emotional and sincere vocal delivery (nicely augmented by a flute solo in the middle), but also the transition from the verse in D, with the descending pattern in bass line (like Dear Prudence), to the chorus with added major-7th interval which appears like the sun behind passing clouds, so suddenly.
On the second album the quality has gone quite a bit more in the commercial direction, but the incredible track about poetry really stands out with its odd chord movements and extreme, exquisite delicacy as befits the subject matter:
Please enjoy these...
ReplyDeleteBoth albums:
https://www7.zippyshare.com/v/ttHb1LTj/file.html
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/r4i2eh
Greetings from the Land Of Confusion bro! :)
ReplyDelete...been a long dark psy op road but we are holding our position!
What a gorgeous cover indeed on Il Mare (no offense brother Gino - those are some impressive chops!! but the 1st Lp cover is a total stunner!)
Ahh our esteemed Italian allies never fail to disappoint, in covers or content.....the term 'lost gem' really applies :)
Brought to mind one of my fave Italian Lps, the 1976 rare beauty by Celeste 'Principe Di Un Giorno' :) ......also you really piqued my curiosity with that mysterious '77 Lp, J.F. Baldassare's 'Dreams'.....WOW! never heard of it (!) and one look at that Lp cover and I know its gotta be 100% hot! good prog gods, is that a Tardis?!? ahhhhh my mind has wingssssssss... another one goes on the wishlist :)
Agree with the assessment of 2nd Lp from '77, although song #2 is pretty sweet and actually upon a patient listen with a fat number, it is also a hot Lp, like the sweet track #4 disco-esque flavor mixes it up on the outro jam with a country-fried goodness :) lovvvve IT!! Top-notch bass work too :) you know he's cool as fuck, just listen to song #9 like an after-hours polka party burlesque! ha ha...wish I knew more Italian ;)
And now that Il Mare Lp is really outstanding! Ahh love it, from the get-go, those enticing notes of nostalgia, warm and bright keys....bringing back memories when a smile was easy and a warm summer day was reason enough to feel good and play our favorite songs....I notice every song ends with a unique coda-jam of out-of-this-world goodness!!! My only complaint is these wonderful themes/riffs/jams should have been lengthened greatly! hahaha
Definitely a Grey Havens vibe going on here, happy memories and bittersweet looks back, saying goodbye to what was....
Track #3 at 3:15 just gets so stratospherically groovy, I had to immediately relisten to it 5 times, each time a little louder :) :) :)
I'm telling you! Outta sight!!!
Then we are treated to echoes of Tom Bombadil, merry and mysterious on The Old Forest trails - again that outro riff in track #4 .....there's some old-earth-magic there my friends....#5, 30 seconds in and I'm enthralled, my prog ears delighted!! Happy like the merry flowers of June :) :)
Song #6 is such a treat, beautiful hues, tones, waves ....a warm embrace from an old friend, a great dream come true...then at 3:47 those keys & that sax come down from 5D heaven.......showing us the way Home, a morning vision...the Vibration Of Life right there, waking up with your best friends realizing it was all a dream :)
The Greatest Adventure is what lies ahead :) we won't let anyone sell us a bad script of fear; we've played that game long enough and are all tired of greasy kid stuff.......Today and Tomorrow are yet to be said, the chances the changes are all ours to make, the mold of our Life is in our hands to break.... Thank You so much brother Julian :) these Lps gave me a couple tears of joy and child smiles :) priceless my friend :)