ANNO MUNDI 
Cloister Graveyard In The Snow

LP

LIMITED EDITION - 100 numbered copies

THIS COPY: NUMBER 44/100

Very obscure private press Hard Rock/Heavy Metal LP in pure Black Sabbath style. The cover is a cult picture: it's entitled "Cloister Graveyard in the Snow" which was destroyed in Berlin, during the air-raids of World War II.

Record featuring:  

4 SIDED FOLDER POSTER (cm 65 x 65) 

3 EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS 

A PRINTED INSERT 

A GIANT HAND PAINTED POSTER (cm 90 x 60) 

INOLTRE, SOLO PER GLI ACQUIRENTI ITALIANI: UNA RIVISTA A COLORI AL CUI INTERNO E' STATA PUBBLICATA LA RECENSIONE DELL'ALBUM CON CITAZIONE DEGLI OSPITI E DEI GRUPPI A QUESTI ULTIMI APPARTENGONO. SI TRATTA DI UNA RIVISTA PUBBLICATA A ROMA CHE TRATTA ARGOMENTI VARI (società, cultura, politica, sport, ecc). La rivista è nuova, ancora incelofanata.

read about this record the following reviews

GERMAN: METAL RULES (http://metal-rules.de/seiten/cd_tipps/cd_tipps.htm)

ENGLISH: ROCK UNITED (http://rockunitedreviews.blogspot.com/2012/01/rating-710-label-independent-2011.html)

ITALIANO: ROCK GARAGE (http://www.rockgarage.it/?p=1046), TRUE METAL (http://www.truemetal.it/reviews.php?op=albumreview&id=10448), METAL ARCI (http://metalarciwebzine.blogspot.com/2011/10/recensione-anno-mundi.html), SALTINARIA (http://www.saltinaria.it/recensioni/cdpromodemo/13231-anno-mundi-cloyster-graveyard-in-the-snow.html), ITALIAN METAL (http://www.italianmetal.it/recensioni/archivio-recenti/1745-anno-mundi-cloister-graveyard-in-the-snow), STEREO INVADERS (http://www.stereoinvaders.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=1:cd&id=6509:anno-mundi-cloister-graveyard-in-the-snow&Itemid=16), YOUR EYES WEBZINE (http://www.iyezine.com/recensioni/1523-anno-mundi-cloyster-graveyard-in-the-snow-.htm) 

Release date: 4 AUG 2011
Label: ANNO MUNDI (PRIVATE)
Catalog number: LPAM 01

GENRE: HARD ROCK-HEAVY METAL

CONDITIONS: NEW.

Anno Mundi:

Alessio Secondini Morelli: guitars, percussions, bk vocals

Gianluca Livi: drums, percussions, acoustic guitars

Federico Magagnini: vocals

Luigi Ranieri: bass, acoustic guitars

very special guests:

Andrea Ciccomartino (GRAAL): vocals (*)

Alessandro Papotto (BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO/PERIFERIA DEL MONDO): tenor sax (§)

Paolo Lucini (EZRA WINSTON): piano, keyboards, noise (^)

Michele Raspanti (GRAAL): bass (°)

Tracklist:

side one

A01. Scarlet Queen (°) - 5.50
A02. The Shining Darkness - 7.59
A03. Dwarf Planet (°) (§) (^) - 10.03

side two

B01. Gallifreyan’s Suite: - 11.05
   a) Access To The 4th Dimension
   b) Tardis (^)
   c) Timelord
B02. Cloister Graveyard In The Snow (^) - 2.56
B03. God Of The Sun (*) - 8.30

Biography

(extract from the printed insert inside the record)

ANNO MUNDI is a heavy-rock band from Rome, Italy, formed during summer of 2009 by guitarist Alessio Secondini Morelli and drummer Gianluca Livi. They changed original name Machine Messiah into ANNO MUNDI (latin for Year of the World, referring to a calendar era counting from the Biblical Creation), to suggest toughness and stony musical coherence and inexorability.

The search for a bass player and a vocalist for a steady line-up was problematic. Several musicians took the first role for a short time but resigned soon after, while for the latter, Anglo-Italian Luca Jason Serafini (from the acoustic guitar duo Street Corner), came in December 2009 as ANNO MUNDI’s interim singer. He never really was a fully fledged band member, still helping the friends for a couple of gigs, in Rome, on January 31th, 2010 at Funnel Live Club (supporting hard rock band GRAAL, whom musical roots deeply sink in 70s hard rock sound) and on May 10th, 2010 at Sinister Noise (with the street/glam band Jonna and the Loud Shooters).

In June 2010, the band had a new steady singer (and rhythm guitarist), Federico Magagnini (formerly with the Mr. Brownstone, a Guns ’n’ Roses cover band), whose rusty and sparkling voice shows marked influence by Axl Rose and Bon Scott at his best. With the new singer, ANNO MUNDI performed a couple of open-air gigs on July 2010, during the Brother Park Woodstock Festival held in Montecompatri, near Rome: the 25th again supporting GRAAL; the 31th with U.N.O., Bobask and Jonna once again.

In August 2010, Alessio and Gianluca started to record their self-produced debut album Cloister Graveyard In the Snow, at the 3Fates Recording Studios, in Rome, owned by EZRA WINSTON, probably the greatest italian new prog band of the 80s. The studio attended by many bands including Matilda Mothers Project, SoneTsenZ, VU-Meters, Anagramma, Gallant Farm and artists like Aldo Tagliapietra (singer/bassist of LE ORME) and Gianni Colaiacomo (bassist of BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO and ANGELO BRANDUARDI).

Unfortunately, last ANNO MUNDI bass player left the band right before recording sessions. Despite the line-up changes, the band was alive and kicking assisted by Luigi Ranieri (also acoustic guitar player) and Michele Raspanti (member of GRAAL), both playing bass on three songs each.

The album features also Paolo Lucini, original member of EZRA WINSTON, who besides mixing/editing the album, also plays piano, keyboards and helped for arrangements and production. Other special guests are Andrea Ciccomartino on vocals (lead singer, rhythm guitarist and composer of GRAAL), Alessandro Papotto on tenor sax (founder of PERIFERIA DEL MONDO and member of BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO, one of the most influential prog bands from Italy). Andrea Ciccomartino and Luigi Ranieri also contributed in arranging two songs (the first on the quite section of God of the sun; the latter on the acoustic section of Dwarf Planet).  

The new line-up has been tested in a gig at Alkatraz Pub of Fiumicino (Rome), on June 25th, 2011, with Following the Fool, opening for VU-METERS (a super group formed by members of BALLETTO DI BRONZO, EZRA WINSTON, DIVÆ, OAK and NODO GORDIANO).

The album was released in august 2011, in 100 numbered copies pressed, featuring a 4 sided folder poster, 3 pictures, a printed insert, a giant hand painted poster: first ten copies are all number ones, intended as a gift purpose; the rest of the run are numbered 11 to 100. Additional 10 copies are released as promo copies. The terrific cover is a cult of two century ago: it's entitled "Monastery Graveyard in the Snow" by Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) which was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. The picture was destroyed in Berlin, during the air-raids of World War II.

SI PREGA DI ASPETTARE A PAGARE SOLO DOPO AVER RICEVUTO LA MIA RICHIESTA DI PAGAMENTO !!! 

IL PAGAMENTO DEVE ESSERE ANTICIPATO E AVVENIRE NON OLTRE I 7 GIORNI DAL TERMINE DELL'ASTA

PAGAMENTI ACCETTATI (PAYMENT ACCEPTED):

1 - VAGLIA POSTALE

2 - BONIFICO BANCARIO

3 - FOREIGNER BUYER: PAYPAL

4 - ACQUIRENTI ITALIANI: PAYPAL è accettato solo previo accordo preventivo. NON PAGATE CON PAYPAL SE PRIMA NON ABBIAMO CONCORDATO IN TAL SENSO.

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