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Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 27th February 2011 CE
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Re: Soundtracks Of Our Lives w/e 27th February 2011 CE
Mar 02, 2011, 13:58
Stevo wrote:
Demonoid had a LOAD of lossless Italian prog upped to it a couple of months back. A lot of it is probably still up.

the site you link to linked onto a shop called btf but the link was broken. I'm hoping that shop isn't gone cos it was a good cheap source for a lot of this stuff.

Must check that book out. There has been a lot of really great music made in early 70s Italy. I really like the heavier stuff.

Took me until VDGG got their catalogue remastered to see how much of an influence they were on music down there. But now it shows heavily.
I think the 80s mastering was very misleading.

There were a couple of discs of video footage compiled and torrented on Dime a few years back that I must dig out & rewatch. Think it was mainly PFM, Banco and a couple of others, possibly Area in which case I should definitely make an effort to see it again.

A few months ago reviews of Area cds ran in a few places, I assumed this meant remasters but I couldn't find any leads on where to get them. anybody have any idea?

Stevo


Yeah, the different influences in different countries is really interesting. Those stories of VDGG being mobbed like the Beatles getting off the plane in Italy are amazing. I'm guessing that ELP and Jethro Tull were also pretty influential there, for the pseudo-classical elements and the amount of bloody flute there is on some of the well-known albums :-) (though of course, they were way ahead in terms of the 'classical' augmentation stakes compared to even the UK - New Trolls' Concerto Grosso, Il Paese Dei Balocchi's S/T and Osanna's soundtrack to Milano calibro 9 are great examples).

For Germany, non-Krautrock stuff, I'd say it's more the Deep Purple, Uriah Heep end of things, while in France, Genesis and Floyd. Huge generalisations of course, but interesting in terms of what people picked up on...
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