Back to Carlos Franzetti in a 7" from 1974

 

This is a single recorded in 1974 with involvement from the brilliant Argentinian composer Carlos Franzetti, featured back here with his late 70s masterpieces of composition.  For me the way he combined his classical music education with fusion was just inimitable. In his discography you can see he went on to become a sought-after soundtrack composer successfully until the present day.  

Following the masterpiece Galaxy Dust (1981) however, it seems he made generic OST stuff, covers of old jazz standards, modern classical music, and eschewed the fierce 'third stream' style of music. The thing is it's hard to say since I have little familiarity with those later records and most of them seem to be out of print / unreleased digitally or to CD.

Producer / Releaser info regarding the 7":

The story behind: In 1974, after CARLOS FRANZETTI was living in Mexico and worked as the musical director of FERMATA International, he returned to Argentina. In Buenos Aires his friend MOCHIN MARAFIOTTI was recently appointed A&R at the local recording label MUSIC HALL . Marafiotti asked Carlos if he wanted to record some of his music and he answered that he had in mind a group playing LATIN JAZZ . After a couple of meetings they came out with the idea of covering the RUBEN RADA tune DEDOS recently recorded in the US by AIRTO MOREIRA along with the OPA TRIO.

Carlos contributed his own composition „Doce y Diez“ . He selected the group consisting of his friend and member of the uruguayan Band TOTEM, Ruben Rada on percussion, Ricardo Lew on guitar , Emilio Valle on bass and Osvaldo Lopez on drums covering keyboards and vocals himself . This formation recorded tracks and vocals in a three hour session and the next day the track was mixed. Music Hall released „Dedos“ and „Doce y Diez“ on a single record and after months of discrete airplay and not so good sales the project for an album was draped . A few months after that Carlos moved back to the US where he is been living since December of 1974 to the present...

Here's the Franzetti composition, Doce:

I'll find more Franzetti and be back shortly.