📌1972

Delirium
📀 Lo Scemo e il Villaggio
#ProgressiveRock #ProgressiveFolk #JazzRock

50 years ago, in an undocumented date, Delirium from #Genoa, #Italy released their 2nd studio album.

This album came out probably towards the end of the year, after 2 dramatic events for #Delirium: the great success after performing at the Italian TV "Festival di Sanremo" the non album single "Jesahel" (their biggest hit ever) and the sudden departure of frontman and leader #IvanoFossati who penned it and started a solo career.

Despite these events, Lo Scemo e il Villaggio is widely regarded as a good Progressive Rock album where folk, jazz and melody perfectly blend, though it had little consideration at the time.

In this album:
#MimmoDiMartino - guitar, vocals
#EttoreVigo - piano, organ, vocals
#MartinGrice - saxophone, flute, vocals
#MarcelloReale - bass, double bass, vocals
#PeppinoDiSanto - drums, percussion, gong

🎧Listen to Lo Scemo e il Villaggio 👉 here

📀 Album of the Week
@Venice_Rocks

📌18 April 1973

Pholas Dactylus
📀 Concerto Delle Menti
#ProgressiveRock #RPI

50 years ago Pholas Dactylus from #Milan #Italy, released their debut (and only) studio album in the 70s, the band would in fact split soon after, to reunite 40 years later.

Concerto Delle Menti is a musical journey divided into 2 sides-parts, to me really a hell of an album!

Vocals in Italian are entirely #SpokenWord, a psychedelic narration on biblical and apocalyptic visions abruptly cut at the album's end.
All accompanied by a guitar and piano driven crescendo in which elements of #JazzRock, #AvantGarde, #HeavyMetal, #SpaceRock and surprisingly #KrautRock (#PholasDactylus toured in fact only with Amon Düül II in their short life) perfectly coexhist.

In this album:
#PaoloCarelli - voice
#EleinoColladet - guitars
#ValentinoGalbusera, #MaurizioPancotti - keyboards
#RinaldoLinati - bass
#GiampieroNava - drums

#VittorioDeScalzi (New Trolls) - production
#18April

🎧Listen to CDM 👉 here

📀 Album of the Week
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📌1985

Allan Holdsworth
📀 Metal Fatigue
#JazzFusion #JazzRock #ProgressiveRock #HardRock #NewWave #AOR

40 years ago, in an undocumented date, Allan Holdsworth from Bradford, England, #UK released his 3rd solo album.

Recorded in Los Angeles where Holdsworth had just relocated, and released as Allan Holdsworth with I.O.U. (his band), Metal Fatigue is widely considered an all time masterpiece!

This album was highly praised by all the most important guitarists of the time, who cited it as a big influence and inspiration.
Frank Zappa, who generally was not so nice to his fellow musicians, addressed Holdsworth as "one of the most interesting guys on guitar on the planet", while others called him "the #JohnColtrane of the guitar".

In this album:
#AllanHoldsworth – guitar, producer
#PaulWilliams, #PaulKorda – vocals
#AlanPasqua – keyboards
#ChadWackerman, #GaryHusband – drums
"Mac Hine" – drum machine
#JimmyJohnson, #GaryWillis – bass

🎧Listen to Metal Fatigue
👉 here

🩸😈 50 years for 👉 Profondo Rosso. #Goblin in #Verona next May 17.

📌❤️‍🔥 Great event next July 29, inside the stunning Castello Sforzesco in #Milan, #Italy!

Claudio Simonetti's #Goblin will perform the soundtrack of Dario Argento's horror Profondo Rosso for its 50th anniversary, plus many other famous film scores from them.

👉📀 Profondo Rosso

📀 Album of the Week
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📌August 1975

Area
📀 Crac!
#ProgressiveRock #AvantProg #JazzRock #JazzFusion #RPI

50 years ago Area from #Milan, #Italy released their 3rd studio album.

Crac! is undoubtedly #Area most accessible album, the band gained an increasing popularity thanks to this release and the following promotional tour.

Outstanding performance ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#GiulioCapiozzo – drums, percussion
#PatrizioFariselli – piano, clarinet, synthesizer
#DemetrioStratos – vocals, organ, harpsichord, steel drums, percussion
#AresTavolazzi – acoustic and electric bass, trombone
#PaoloTofani – guitar, synthesizer, flute

🎧Listen to Crac! 👉 here

📀 Album of the Week
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📌2 October 1975

Frank Zappa / The Mothers / Captain Beefheart
📀 Bongo Fury
#JazzRock #RockBlues #JazzFusion #ExperimentalRock #SpokenWord

50 years ago Frank Zappa from Baltimore and Captain Beefheart from Glendale, #USA released a collaborative album.

Zappa and Beefheart knew each other for long time and both made guest appearances in respective albums but never released a proper collaboration before.
Bongo Fury contains both studio and live recordings. It's the last Zappa album where the name The Mothers (Of Invention) appears and his first one to feature drummer extraordinaire Terry Bozzio.

Outstanding ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#FrankZappa – guitar, vocals
#CaptainBeefheart – harp, vocals, sax
#GeorgeDuke – keyboards, vocals
#NapoleonMurphyBrock – sax, vocals
#BruceFowler – trombone
#TomFowler – bass
#DennyWalley – slide guitar, backing vocals
#TerryBozzio, #ChesterThompson – drums
#RobertFrogCamarena – backing vocals
#2October

🎧Listen to Bongo Fury 👉 here

🎸🎧 Existence, the second album of The Mayor Is Stoned from Venice, #Italy.

#PsychedelicRock #JazzRock #ProgressiveRock

📀 Album of the Week
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📌25 June 1976

Soft Machine
📀 Softs
#JazzRock #ProgressiveRock #InstrumentalRock #JazzFusion

50 years ago Soft Machine from #Canterbury, England, #UK released their 9th studio album.

Like 👉 their previous album, Softs features a wider use of guitars as compared to the band's past discography.

During the recording of the album, #SoftMachine last remaining original member, Mike Ratledge, left the band.
This is probably why many see this album as a complete loss of the band's identity.

In any case this is amazing music from beginning to end ❤️‍🔥

In this album:
#RoyBabbington – bass
#JohnEtheridge – acoustic and electric guitars
#JohnMarshall – drums, percussion
#AlanWakeman – saxophones
#KarlJenkins – piano, electric piano, Hohner Pianet, Minimoog, string synthesizers, orchestrations

Additional musician
#MikeRatledge – synthesizer
#25June

🎧Listen to Softs 👉 here