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📌June 1972

Quella Vecchia Locanda
📀 Quella Vecchia Locanda
#ProgressiveRock #RPI #NeoClassical

50 years ago Quella Vecchia Locanda from Rome, #Italy released their eponymous debut studio album.
This album, like their 1974 following one, is regarded as one of the greatest example of Italian Progressive Rock highly permeated of Neo Classical elements.
Complex, sophisticated, beautiful!

#QuellaVecchiaLocanda in this album were:
Giorgio Giorgi - lead vocals, flute, piccolo
Raimondo Maria Cocco - electric, acoustic & 12 string guitars, vocals
Massimo Roselli - piano, organ, Mellotron, Moog, electronic zither, spinet, vocals
Donald Lax - electric & acoustic violins
Romualdo Coletta - bass, frequency generator
Patrick Traina - drums, percussion

🎧Listen to Quella Vecchia Locanda 👉 here

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📌1974

Opus Avantra
📀 Opus Avantra Donella Del Monaco
#AvantProg #NeoClassical #ChamberMusic #FolkRock #MusiqueConcrete

50 years ago, in an undocumented date, Opus Avantra from #Veneto region, released their debut studio album.

Often referred as Introspezione (the title of the first song), this album aimed to perfectly fuse Classical and Opera (Opus) with Progressive Avant Garde Rock (Avan) and Traditional music (Tra).

#OpusAvantra opera singer Donella Del Monaco is the nephew of 👉 Mario Del Monaco, one of the best and most famous Italian tenors.

The band became also one of the few in #Italy to be associated with Rock In Opposition movement (#RIO) started in the UK by 👉 Henry Cow.

In this album:
#DonellaDelMonaco − vocals
#AlfredoTisocco − keyboards
#LucianoTavella − flute
#PierdinoTisato − drums
#EnricoProfessione, #PieregidioSpiller − violin

Addtional musician
#TonyEsposito (yes, the one of "Kalimba De Luna", 1984) − percussions

🎧Listen to Opus Avantra
👉 here

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📌 Late 1974

Quella Vecchia Locanda
📀 Il Tempo Della Gioia
#ProgressiveRock #NeoClassical #ChamberMusic

50 years ago in an undocumented date Quella Vecchia Locanda from Rome, #Italy released their 2nd and final studio album.

#QuellaVecchiaLocanda disbanded in fact after the release. This album, like their 👉 1972 debut, is regarded as one of the greatest example of Neo Classical "pastoral" Rock Progressivo Italiano (#RPI).

In this album:
#GiorgioGiorgi - vocals, flute, piccolo
#RaimondoMariaCocco - guitars, vocals
#MassimoRoselli - keyboards, piano, vocals
#ClaudioFilice - electric & acoustic violin
#MassimoGiorgi - bass
#PatrickTraina - drums, percussion

🎧Listen to Il Tempo Della Gioia 👉 here

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📌2004

Opus Avantra
📀 Venetia Et Anima
#NeoClassical #ChamberMusic #AvantProg

20 years ago, in an undocumented date, and 30 years after their 👉 debut album, Opus Avantra from
#Veneto region, #Italy released a studio album dedicated to #Venice.

Venetia Et Anima was published as Donella Del Monaco e Paolo Troncon, main artists and writers, and they kept the monicker Opus Avantra Ensemble.

Opera singer Del Monaco sings in various ancient languages: Latin, Paleoveneto, Venetian, Medieval German and Luxembourguish.

#OpusAvantra in this album:
#DonellaDelMonaco - vocals
#PaoloTroncon - piano
#GabrieleBruzzolo - percussions
#PaoloCarraro - cello
#MarcoGalliazzo - alto
#GiacomoLivolsi - celtic harp
#MauroMartello - flute
#AndreaOddoneMartin - saxophone
#MicheleMestriner - keyboards
#DavideSartori - guitar
#DamianoVisentin - accordion
#StefanoBruzzolo - sounds

🎧Listen to Venetia Et Anima
👉 here