Arturo Stalteri, by request

Here's an artist I'm surprised I never heard before given that his stuff is, again, right up my alley. It's similar to the Penguin Orchestra recently posted with the mix of chamber, folky acoustic, touches of electronic and ambient sounds.

Arturo Stalteri was pianist and composer for the 70s Italian prog outfit Pierrot Lunaire, a trio who made two quite different albums, the first folky and the second experimental, neither quite interesting enough, and one thinks if only they had met in the middle for something more accessibly progressive. 

There are surprisingly long gaps in his output, but the next album from 1979 presents a wonderful mix the kind that was lacking in Pierrot, with progressive all instrumental compositions, very similar to two prior Italians posted some time back here on this blog, Maurizio Fabrizio, and Claudio Dentes (Panta Rei).

Note that the 1979 album Andre Sulla Luna presumably references Pierrot Lunaire and divides into two sides, the first being the dream of Andre and the second being Andre on the moon.

From the back's credits it's clear he is also a multi-instrumentalist who played almost everything here. Consider Verso La Realta:

 The beautiful composition called Morceau (French term for a short composition, meaning piece) with its piano plus clarinet plus electric organ is from the next album which came out in 1987 and also references the moon:

Unfortunately by 1992's Syriarise, the music becomes a little less interesting and more ambiently repetitive along the lines of minimal Philip Glass with as well many solo grand piano pieces. Nonetheless some lovely passages are worth hearing.