★RCA
Drama & Suspense
1991 release ** Library music from the RCA archives by Beppe Cantarelli, Franco Micalizzi, Giuseppe Natale, Claudio Simonetti, Ennio Morricone, Renato Serio, Pino Donaggio, Luigi Colarullo, Bruno Zambrini.
Light Themes / Latin / Jazz
1991 release ** Library music from the RCA archives by Franco Micalizzi, Fabio Massimo Cantini, Dino Kappa.
Lighthearted / Sentimental / Nostalgic
1991 release ** Library music from the RCA archives by Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, Armando Trovaioli, Franco Micalizzi, Piero Piccioni, Maurizio Abeni, Giovanni Tommaso, Stelvio Cipriani, Guido And Maurizio De Angelis.
Ilona Staller
In the late 1970s, Ilona Staller aka Cicciolina’s started her parallel career in the music field. Here's the reissue of her first LP.
Sfinge
Following the 40th anniversary edition of Barbara e altri Carella - the classic and hard to find Funk / AOR masterpiece by Enzo Carella - in September, it's now time for a due re-issue of Sfinge, its follow-up released in 1981 whose original edition usually sells on the second-hand market for prices even crazier than those of Barbara... Carella was an Italian singer-songwriter who is best remembered for his 1979 major hit Barbara, which won second prize at the Sanremo Festival. Once again, all t…
Antico Teatro Da Camera
Having had a good career as lyricist, singer-songwriter Gianni D'Errico, from Brindisi, released some singles in the early seventies that went unnoticed, and an album that was released only in 1976, after his death (in September 1975, run over by a car). The LP, Antico teatro da camera, is usually considered as one of the best prog-inclined albums by solo artists, and a hard to find one! Produced by Equipe 84 leader Maurizio Vandelli (who also acted as producer for the first album by Reale Accad…
Io Come Io
*2023 stock* "Io come Io" could be regarded as the first Italian heavy metal effort. Ok, the sound results a little smoothed by a typical 1970s production, psychedelic influences can be easily found (most of all in the semi-power ballad "Non io" and the jazzy coda to "Io come Io") and the style of the band here is not so far from what Osage Tribe did the year before this album was released. Nevertheless, "Io come Io" has got such a real tension and straight-in-your-face approach you'd hardly exp…