LE ORME Live 2LP + 10 inch '75 - '77 ITA PROG Legend

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LE ORME - Live Orme 2 Lp + 10 inch

on BLACK WIDOW RECORDS

Cat. BWR 115

YEAR 2009

Originally released in Japan by Nexus/King Records label over 20 years ago, this new reissue contains various wonderful live performances of one of most known Italian progressive band captured during the 70's, includes some covers like Whole lotta love and Aqualong and many of their most known compositions like Regina al Troubadour, Sguardo verso il cielo, Era inverno, Cemento Armato....
This release has completely remastered by Studio Maia, Genova giving back the feeling of the original Orme performances.
Both versions (Double Cd and Double LP + 10 inch) contain five bonus tracks (Los angeles, Amico di Ieri, Laurel Canyon, Sera, La porta chiusa) not included in the original Japanese pressing.


BAND HISTORY:
One of the most important and loved Italian prog bands, and one of the most famous among foreign listeners.
Le Orme were another of those bands coming from the beat era that had the most convincing musical evolution in the 70's. They were formed in Marghera (nearVenice) in 1966 but their debut came in 1967 with Fiori e colori, recorded by the original four-piece line-up. The band had a successful single with "Senti l'estate che torna" and recorded their first album Ad Gloriam at the end of 1968, releasing it the following year. Housed in a psychy sleeve the album is still regarded as one of the best in the Italian beat, with the music having a slight psychedelic touch in songs like Io non so restare solo, Fumo, Milano 1968.In 1970 the band signed a contract with Philips, that released their subsequent 10 albums in ten years. The old label Car Juke Box released L'Aurora, a compilation of their singles tracks that's also very rare now. First album with Philips, and their first as a trio was Collage, with Aldo Tagliapietra having switched from guitar to bass and the band having now a keyboards based sound like foreign groups such as ELP. They had also made a trip to London to follow the current music evolution. A very good album, Collage contains some of their best tracks ever like Sguardo verso il cielo and Cemento armato. With a great live following the band released a new album in 1972, Uomo di pezza, with a distinctive fantasy gatefold cover. The album was very successful, as the single taken from it, Gioco di bimba, that many of their fans disliked being too melodic. In the same year the band left the open-air festival circuit and began individual tours, with important guests such as Peter Hammill. 1973 saw the release of an ambitious concept album, Felona e Sorona, based on the story of these two planets. A beautiful album, containing a long suite, it also gave the band high placements in the LP and singles charts (with the single Felona in this case). The sound was more original, with the keyboards of Pagliuca being the leading instrument and the delicate original voice of Tagliapietra giving a distinctive touch. Le Orme made their first English tour that year, and Felona e Sorona was also translated in English and released by Charisma in the UK, but with little success. Coming back to Italy, they were the most popular live group at the time, and decided to release a live album, In concerto in 1974. This was the first live album by an Italian rock band and a very successful one, though the recording quality was far from today's standards. The album also included an unreleased track, the side-long 21 minute Truck of fire. Contrappunti, released the same year, was a lower level effort in comparison with the previous works, with long instrumental parts (three of the seven tracks were instrumental) and producer Gian Piero Reverberi mentioned in the cover notes as a band member on piano. Probably in search of a new sound the band enroled a fourth member, guitarist extraordinaire Tolo Marton (from Raptus), for their next album Smogmagica. And the album, recorded in Los Angeles, has in fact a different sound, with less predominance left to keyboards and the guitar in evidence, with spacey tracks like Laserium Floyd (with obvious Pink Floyd influences) or Laurel Canyon. The album was not entirely convincing, and newcomer Marton soon left the band, replaced by another guitarist, Germano Serafin. With the new member they released next album Verità nascoste in 1976, a very good one and probably their last good album for many years. A hit single was also taken from it with Regina al Troubadour, and the album, despite some melodic songs has some very good moments like Insieme al concerto and Vedi Amsterdam.Like Felona & Sorona this album was also recorded in an English-sung version for foreign markets, but Secret truths was never released, though it exists in bootleg form. From 1977 the band entered its worst period, releasing albums like Storia o leggenda and Florian having a stronger classical influences and on a lower level than their previous works.
This lasted until 1982, when the group broke up for the first time. Aldo Tagliapietra released a rock-oriented solo album in 1984, then the band temporarily reunited in 1986 for a single, but only in 1990 they returned together, again with Philips for a pop album.A new split came, with Toni Pagliuca beginning a solo career and the other two members (Tagliapietra and Dei Rossi) reforming the band, this time with two keyboardists, Michele Bon and Francesco Sartori. The revived group began touring again, and made its debut with Amico di ieri, a CD issued in 1997 containing remakes of tracks from their whole repertoire. Later in the same year they released a very good brand new album, Il fiume, closer to their early 70's sound. The album had a good success and the band was also invited to the Los Angeles Progfest in May 1997. Many other important foreign dates followed in these years.In 2001 another great album, Elementi, housed in a nice cover by Paul Whitehead (of Genesis fame) featured last recruit, keyboardist/violinist Andrea Bassato, their sound consistently enriched by the unusual sampled guitar sounds by Michele Bon, played on a self-made keyboard, and it seemed that Le Orme had definitely found a second youth. The third chapter in this trilogy of revamped prog works came in 2004, entitled L'infinito, on the same level as the previous ones, the group having now a slightly different sound than in the past, more based on piano and guitar, but the quality of their works is still very high, just like their live set. 2004 has also seen new live appearances by Toni Pagliuca, that has played with ethno-prog band Malaavia from Naples in many dates, adding to that band's live set some old classics by Le Orme. In the same year Pagliuca has released two interesting CD's, both only issued in limited pressing and now hard to find, Demos a Marghera, including studio recordings from 2003 and 2004, and the live Re-Collage (as its name suggests, based on the classic Collage album) with help from Van Der Graaf' Generator's sax player David Jackson and Massimo Donà Quintet. At the beginning of 2008 Andrea Bassato left Le Orme, that remain in activity as a trio, with Tagliapietra, Dei Rossi and Bon. In the same year the group released, first in limited edition reserved to the Fan Club members and later in official form, a 2CD+1DVD box set taken from their live appearance at the Nearfest, in Pennsylvania, in 2005. This Live in Pennsylvania has also been issued on vinyl in 2009 as a 3-LP set.

TRACK LIST

side A

Contrappunti
Maggio
India
Gioco di Bimba
Era inverno

side B

Truck of Fire
Preludio a frutto acerbo
Frutto acerbo
Cemento armato
Era Inverno
La porta chiusa
Collage

side C

Whole lotta love
Aqualong
Felona e Sorona
a) Sospesi nell'incredibile
b) I due pianeti
c) L’equilibrio
d) Ritratto di un mattino
e) Ritorno al nulla

side D
Regina al Troubadour
Radio felicita'
Laserium Floyd
Aspettando l'alba
Sguardo verso il cielo
Collage
Maggio

side E
Los Angeles
Amico di ieri
Laurel canyon

side F
Sera
La porta chiusa


Michi Dei Rossi: drums & percussion
Aldo Tagliapietra: lead vocals, bass guitar, guitars
Antonio Pagliuca: keyboards & synthesizers
Germano Serafin: electric & acoustic guitars

condition: NEW!

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