The Quartet The Stars ", is formed in Veneto in 1967 by the encounter last bassist Jacobins and New Dada Giandomenico Crescentini with guitarist Urban Orlandi, who recruit them At the time keyboardist Marini (ex Wretched then in the Venetian Power) and drummer Alexandrian Sandro Cerrato . settled in Rome, the four are introduced by an old friend of Orlandi Ettore Rosboch to thirty-three artist Mario Schifano , then in its most intense lysergic stage and film in Italy and interested in implementing the speech- psychedelic multimedia typical Pop Art already followed since 1962.
Synergy artistic works with the teacher and the four musicians are hired for a first gig in September '67 in Theatre Capitoline Via Belsiana ( maintained by Alberto Moravia and Dacia Maraini ) where, under the new name of "The Stars Mario Schifano ", perform their own songs while on their images are projected from the movie "Anna Carini in August view the butterflies."
The impact is significant and critical Schifano program a second time to the Roman Piper that, as we'll see, will take effect from 28 December 1967. At the same time
"Stars" migrate in Turin, is to hold a series of concerts at Club Pearl , is to record the "Fono Folk Stereostudio " what will be their first and only work on vinyl: "Dedicated to ... ", recorded for small record company in Milan BDS (rib of 'Ariston ) and published in November 1967 in approximately 700 copies (though the exact figure is unknown), of which it is said that the first 50 were red vinyl. goes without saying that there really would be a huge value today.
Following the experience of Turin, the team returned to Rome to attend what will be the first major happening of the Italian psychedelic music: "Great corner, dreams and stars " (28/12/1967) with music live, mixed projections on four big screens and prestigious guests including Andy Warhol's assistant , Gerard Malanga, who would soon founded "Interview .
Unfortunately, the resonance of the show did not help much of his career " Stars" , whether for a lack of interest occurred Schifano to continue this artistic trend, both for irreversible tensions within the group that will melt the following year after a 45-successful. The only In Marini continue his career from the collective Venetian Power .
"Dedicated to ..." is one of the rarest vinyl records that exist in Italy.
Virtually unknown before being reprinted (and often badly wrong with the graphics or too retouched) and indexed by the phenomenon of " Conventions, its quotations beyond the range today to € 3,500 for a mint copy in black vinyl.
However, beyond the iperquotazioni, the rarity of this museum piece has certainly plausible reasons.
First, the original sale price was about 40,000 pounds, a figure prohibitive for most of the youth market (a product " bourgeois" in short) and also the distribution was limited to concerts, a few shops and especially the art galleries. According
was an irreplaceable example of Italian pre-psychedelia its time.
In other words, for the sumptuous look and feel designed by Schifano himself, both for the extreme transversality music, "Dedicated to ... " was perceived more as a precious art object than as a common disk for sale in the normal commercial channels.
Musically, the groove of the disc is divided into two distinct parts.
The first side is occupied by a long improvisation surreal " last words Brandimante ..." (17 'approx.) Which well reflects what must have been the performances of the group.
The tone is aggressive and much closer to 'pure edge than to psychedelic rock with an emotional transport aumenta man mano che ci si avvicina al finale (che viene ironicamente contaminato con la sigla televisiva RAI della " Fine delle trasmissioni "). Tecnicamente altalenante, l'esecuzione è finalizzata a creare un trasporto emotivo piuttosto che musicale ed è sicuramente un esempio più unico che raro nell'Italia degli anni '60.
Meno stridente è invece il secondo lato che presenta momenti di psichedelìa più strutturata, tra cui l'affascinante " Molto Alto " e la Velvet iana "Susan Song": surely the best arranged song on the disc.
Next, we proceed without infamy and without praise with "And after " and " Range," and stands for the Arabic charm final " Far Away (color) .
Very little unconventional but at that time commercially accepted, " Dedicated to ..." remains a valuable piece and deviated from the rest of Beat . His appreciation
ex-post led him today to be considered an album " seminal ", even despite a long oblivion that lasted more than two decades.
Give him too much weight on the ground would be to dare the revisionism, but it would be a crime neglecting his undeniable artistic value and witness .
A masterpiece We value and not to be missed.
PS: Susan song "does not remind you of something Orme?
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