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Studio Album, released in 1974, Italy.

Derde album van deze Italiaanse jazz-rock/fusion formatie.
Deze wordt als een van hun beste beschouwd.

Pioneers of Italian jazz-rock from the 1970's, PERIGEO were often compared to early BRAND X & actually as innovative as WEATHER REPORT, with a very full sound, featuring bass, keyboards, drums, guitar and saxes. Their music was only comprised between jazz-rock and straight jazz with a dynamic mix of spacey sounds, no prog influences whatsoever. No need to precise that each instrumentalist is strongly competent in their respective domains !

Their best works are usually considered "Genealogia" and "La Valle Dei Templi". The band split after their fifth album and reunited some years later for the ambitious "Alice" double album. From the LP "Alice", the band became more commercial.

This album was the first I heard from jazz group Perigeo, from my point of view, one of the italian masters of jazz, arbeit being below AREA, this guys in this album produced a masterpiece! Yeah! This album is actually aun pair with any AREA album.




Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Genealogia (8:25)
2. Polaris (5:00)
3. Torre del lago (3:06)
4. Via beato angelico (4:55)
5. (In) vino veritas (6:45)
6. Monti pallidi (3:31)
7. Grandi spazi (3:36)
8. Old Vienna (3:22)
9. Sidney's call (4:55)

Total Time: 43:35

Line-up / Musicians

- Bruno Biriaco / drums, percussion
- Franco D'Andrea / acoustic & electric pianos
- Claudio Fasoli / Alto & Soprano saxes, percussion (7)
- Tony Sidney / acoustic & electric guitars, bongos (9)
- Giovanni Tommaso / vocals, bass, double bass, Moog (1-4-8), percussion (2)
+ Mandrake / percussion (2), congas (4)