Japanese remastered reissue of the progressive rock act's 1973 album, packaged in a miniature LP sleeve.

I CALIFFI performs a Progresssive rock sung in Italian and situated in the same category as the early Seventies bands, due to its use of wild and jerky rhythms on which blend excellent analog keyboard shapes & sounds with excellent vocals and scrumptious guitar work. Their music can be defined as close to that of GARYBALDI or FLEA but with nicer lyrical themes in the style of PFM. "Fiore di Metallo" is a good prog album, based on organ and moog sounds, even if the lyrics are a bit naive and too close to the typical Italian beat themes. Some interesting keyboard passages, as in the instrumental "Varius" or the opening track "Nel mio passato", make this album worth listening.

Japanese limited edition reissue of 1972 album that's out-of-print domestically, packaged in a miniature LP sleeve with 2 added bonus tracks 'La Tua Casa Comoda' & 'Donna Vittoria'.

Japanese remastered reissue for the Italian Prog band (not to be confused with the young Australian rock band) packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. Drium. 2005.

Piano, Lead Guitar, Synthesizer [Arp], Spinet, Vocals – Vittorio De Scalzi Piano, Organ [Hammond], Synthesizer [Moog], Mellotron, Electric Piano – Renato Rosset Bass – Giorgio D'Adamo Chorus – Anna, Giulietta Drums – Tullio D'Episcopo Percussion – Ramasandiran Somusundaran Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Giorgio Baiocco Producer – Alberigo Crocetta Engineer [Sound Technician] – Gianluigi Pezzera Mixed By, Technician – Pierluigi Molinari

Uomo di pezza is an album by the Italian progressive rock band Le Orme. It was released in 1972 and was one of their best selling works. Compared to the previous album, it shows much more classical elements: The opening of this work is nothing else as a chaconne of Johann Sebastian Bach, played on piano by maestro Gian Piero Reverberi. Furthermore, Tony Pagliuca plays a synthesizer for the first time. The lyrics of Uomo di pezza describe a powerless, problematic masculine attitude, juxtaposed to an unknown, inscrutable feminine universe.

Japanese limited edition reissue of the progressive rock act's 1973 album, packaged in a miniature gatefold LP sleeve. RCA. 2004.

CORTE DEI MIRACOLI is another Italian great that falls into the realm of traditional, keyboard-based symphonic. The band creates a sound fairly similar to BANCO, sometimes heavy, sometimes lighter, usually lyrical, always in the symphonic vein. The music is moderately complex and all members are good on their instruments. The first incredible recordings from this famous band elaborated tracks with symphonic keyboards and great mixture of progressive elements that combines certain aspects of GENESIS, VDGG and PFM. Corte dei Miracoli's self-titled album has a distinct symphonic prog sound being very melodic and contrasting in writing style with fellow Italians BALLETTO DI BRONZO, BIGLIETTO PER L'INFERNO or CAMPO DI MARTE. This is purely Italian progressive rock at its best. Pleasant albums after all!!!

Reissue of Italian progressive rock masterpiece originally released in 1974. Considered one of the best Italian prog albums of the 70's, combining hard rock with great keyboards & flute.

Japanese reissue of 1973 album, packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. Ricordi/BMG. 2003.