Pietro Grossi

condition (record/cover): EX (marks not affecting play) / EX- (very light wear)

Pietro Grossi was the pioneer of Italian computer music: first cellist of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for thirty years, founder of the Studio di Fonologia Musicale di Firenze in 1963, first Italian to hold a chair in electronic music, the man who organised Italy's first John Cage events. That such a figure made a library record is one of the trade's stranger facts. Atmosfera & elettronica has fourteen electronic cues for polar and underwater scenes, Glaciale, Iceberg vaganti, Notte polare, Città sommersa, Vita subacquea, pure studio electronics without the commercial gloss of his Roman colleagues.

Lupus Records was a small Florentine-Roman outfit and the LP is very scarce; it is also a bridge between the Italian avant-garde and the library world that almost nobody else crossed. Original 1972 pressing.