The first line Area ( Stratos, Capiozzo, Djivas, Lambizi, Gaetano and Busnello ) was born around 1970 but until then, his players had not only already twisted more than once during their lives, but each of them had accumulated so many and such experiences, to presage something extraordinary and unprecedented in the Italian world record. Eustratios Demetriou ( Eustratios Demetriou name and last name then, who knows why, curiously inverted ) era nato da genitori greci ad Alessandria d'Egitto dove aveva studiato pianoforte al prestigioso conservatorio locale e dopo un periodo trascorso a Cipro, si era trasferito a Milano per seguire gli studi di Architettura che lasciò per entrare nei circuiti musicali: prima con i Ribelli e poi da solo (il suo primo 45 giry "Daddy's Dream " del 1972 fu per la Numero Uno di Lucio Battisti ) .
Giulio Capiozzo studiò anch'egli al Cairo dove imparò le poliritmie: emiliano di lontane origini Turche passò anche molto tempo a Parigi dove conobbe Kenny Clarke e il Be Bop . Tornato a Milano In 1969, he met Stratos.
Excellent fiatista Victor Edouard Busnello was a wanderer who is said to have known Miles Davis in Paris, and always in the "ville lumière " Capiozzo met while serving in the orchestra of the same Kenny Clarke.
Bassist French Yan Patrick Erard Djvas arrived in Italy with the group of Rocky Roberts and played briefly in the band Lucio Dalla with keyboardist Leandro Gaetano.
Johnny Lambizi was instead a Hungarian guitar on which you do not have much information, but he too was part of the first Area, making a significant contribution to draw sketches of the early original songs of the band.
contacted by the manager Franco Mamone , the infant group Area "began a series of concerts in the mold predominantly" free jazz "not very successful from a dramatic point of view, but that gave way to the quintet's sound is close and " live" alongside stars of first magnitude which Nucleus and Gentle Giant, both in the studio alongside Aberto Radius in his first solo album . In 1972, Gaetano and Lambizzi abandon training for compatibility issues and enter the jazz keyboardist Patrizio Fariselli (former companion of Capiozzo ) and guitarist Paolo Tofani that after an intense English experience, knows the area through Mamone and Gianni Sassi .
So finally stabilized, the sextet began to try together, collective organization of the material ready, but still fragmented.
The official presentation of some tracks are in the summer of 1973 during a jam session-all ' Altro Mondo Rimini leaving stunned the press and colleagues. Signed to Cramps of Gianni Sassi immediately entered the studio to begin in September 1973 with their first album: "Arbeit macht frei " a disc destined to revolutionize the history of Italian music .
Since controversial title (bearing the famous phrase of Diefenbach shown at several Nazi concentration camps) , from the cover depicting a distressing sculpture Edward Sivelli and the famous cardboard gun to 'internal (which is not a as P38 vorrebbe qualche critico) , il long playing si preannuncia stridente e maledettamente provocatorio e di fatto, l'ascolto è un vero shock.
Una voce femminile che recita una poesia pacifista e d'amore in dialetto egiziano (" abbandona le armi amore mio e vieni a vivere con me in pace ") viene bilanciata improvvisamente dalla voce di Demetrio e dal VCS3 di Fariselli che attaccano uno dei più bei riffs della storia della musica Italiana: si tratta di " Luglio, Agosto, Settembre (nero) ", sintesi suprema di tutta la filosofia " Area ".
Here is reported the war, the attack on the experience and knowledge of the people, against zeroing of sensory experience that pushes individuals toward approval, against the suppression of the dialectic of confrontation and human . A real slap in the face to ' bourgeois hypocrisy that characterizes the rest of the album through violent episodes and new musical solutions and extremely unconventional.
Esmpio practice, the title track in which the evocation of anti-Semitism is opposed to the massacres that the Jews themselves were committing against the Palestinians.
The sound is violent and unusual synthesis of Jazz Rock, John Cage, Nucleus and Soft Machine's jazz mixed with Derek Bayley, Cecil Taylor and Art Ensemble of Chicago.
grafting also simultaneously Arab and Balkan polyrhythms, support is compact with an inventive and experimental use of the voice of Demetrio Stratos , which earned the singer more than an artistic recognition, mixed with considerable attention scientific (there is evidence that could emit sounds close to 7,000 Hertz, as well as diplomatic and tetrafonie).
Not only that, where present, the texts were treated with a thoroughness and attention to the sociological limits of militancy: they were direct or allegorical, were not trivial and borders often have high levels of poetic and evocative. omnipresent in all the major festivals Pop Area developed a musical and visual conflict that not only cemented them to the nascent counterculture movement , but quickly took them to a huge level of popularity.
Now, I will not dwell here on matters already discussed extensively. If anything, for the curious, the Board "The Book on Area" by Domenico Coduto (Auditorium Edizioni, Milano, 2005) .
So che su " Arbeit " si potrebbero scrivere ancora moltissime pagine, ma per il momento credo che il miglior modo di prendere coscienza di questo album sia di ascoltarlo e parlarne.
AREA - Discografia 1973 - 1978:
1973: ARBEIT MACHT FREI
1974: CAUTION
1975: CRAC
1975: ARE(A)ZIONE
1976: MALEDETTI
1978: GLI DEI SE NE VANNO, GLI ARRABBIATI RESTANO
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