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Gian Stellari

Red Sky On New York

LabelGipsy Records

FormatLP

GenreJazz

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Obscure 1982 album on Gypsy Records with lovely keyboard-centered easy listening music "expressly composed by Gian Stellari and Guido Robuschi for Symbol International magazine for the friends of Rolls Royce - Ferrari - Riva. Never re-issued on either LP or CD.

condition (record/cover): EX+ / VG (ring wear and 2" top seam split)

Gian Stellari wrote the music for peplum films in the early sixties (Maciste, giants, gladiators) and then went quiet, at least on record, for twenty years. He resurfaced in 1982 with this: an album composed, so the sleeve says, for Symbol, an international magazine "for the friends of Rolls-Royce, Ferrari and Riva." The music is a Lombard composer's fantasy of Manhattan at cocktail hour, a synthesizer and orchestra travelogue with the glossy, slightly wrong sheen of Italian television at the time.

It sits on the same shelf as the Volvo record: music commissioned by luxury and now beloved by people who could never afford the product. Private-label Gipsy pressing, one of ten catalogue numbers the label managed. An artefact of Milan in the year of the paninari.

Details
File under: Easy Listening
Cat. number: GR 10
Year: 1982

Release notes

Composed for symbol international magazine for the friends of Rolls Royce - Ferrari - Riva. Recorded in January 1982.

Tracklist
A1Red Sky On New York5:37
A2Himalayan Train5:36
A3The Rolls Royce's Girl5:08
B1Flowers For Nancy5:18
B2Thanks My Love4:51
B3Evelyn3:58
Credits
Gian Stellari
Composed By
Guido Robuschi
Composed By, Producer
Gianfranco Longo
Engineer
Mario Lamberti
Engineer [Studio Assistant]