🎼5 April 1973. Some months before I was born, Le Orme, fantastic Prog Rock band from Venice, #Italy, release their 4th album Felona e Sorona, still today in my opinion the best rock album ever come "out of the #Lagoon". 🤟🔝
#LeOrme members, Aldo Tagliapietra, Tony Pagliuca and Michi Dei Rossi were 3 local musicians at the peak of their career, they were part of the unrepeatable Italian Prog Rock era of the early seventies which, with far less technical and promotional means, developed along with the contemporary monumental British Progressive Rock scene. #PeterHammill, at the time leader and mastermind of the famous band #VanDerGraafGenerator, became a big fan and friend of Le Orme and collaborated with them for this album, by suggesting its title and translating the lyrics for its English Version, and for their following UK Tour.
I post the entire record, since it is a concept album telling the story of two planets, Felona and Sorona, which simply can't live without each other, one being in perennial light and the other in perennial darkness. It would not be great to extract just one song, plus the whole sound of this record is incredible still today 😳, more if you think it was 1973! 💪🏻🎸🎙🎹🥁🎶
#5April #ItalianProg #RPI

https://youtu.be/8fkQH8jKx5A

🎼15 October 1971. 50 years ago one of the most stunning songs in #Italy rock history is released as b-side of the first single of Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), one of the best progressive rock bands ever. The single is called "La Carrozza di Hans", the b-side is Impressioni di Settembre, written by Franco Mussida-Mogol-Mauro Pagani 🙏🏻🔝🤟
"Impressioni di Settembre" would become an all time classic, covered by uncountable musicians, #PFM would become the most famous and worldwide respected Italian rock band of the 70s.
In the Chat Room👇 the single cover, and an amazing rendition by #Timoria #vocalist #FrancescoRenga 😱👏
#MusicHistory #15October #ItalianProg #RPI

https://youtu.be/tpOybQsDzoM