condition (record/cover): NM / EX- (light wear)
The title comes from an intersection in the Brera district of Milan. Recorded April 1975 at RCA Italiana in Rome, released three years later on Ananda, the small Roman LP imprint Curran ran with friends. The second of his four 1970s solo records.
Side A: a cat ("Kama") purring, toy pianos, real piano, a five-year-old Japanese girl named Mio Hani counting in Italian, tropical bird-house recordings from London Zoo, schoolyard children. Side B: a long bilingual monologue by Frederic Rzewski's five-year-old son Alexis about building a spaceship out of terrace junk, then a piano performance that accelerates into minimalist permutations and slips into a fragmentary Georgia on My Mind. MEV logic (Curran co-founded Musica Elettronica Viva in 1966 with Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum) reapplied as solo discipline. Cover painting by Edith Schloss. Black Truffle reissued in 2021.
