The Low Price Paradiso is one of the few Prog formations Italian born in Valle d'Aosta region known to be prolific skiers, politicians, athletes and lawyers, but not avant-garde music. Unlike near Piedmont fact that in the region movement took root only marginally and that was probably why it did not develop the necessary social unrest which would produce the most innovative music.
In any event, in its two or three years of operation, the quintet made up of Hugh Wuillermin (piano, acoustic guitar, flute, vocals), Paolo Manfrin (keyboards, vocals), Maurizio Baldassarre the (Guitar, vocals), Sergio Cardellina (bass) and Guido Gressani (drums) with the occasional collaboration of John Brown, had a documented live activity and also designed an album titled "Pika Don Hiroshima "but never saw the light.
Scioltisi in 1974, remained virtually unknown until in 1992, Mellow Records San Remo decided to publish in full CD recording of a concert of their 1973 to Saint Vincent which included five tracks of which the first three rather long (median 15 minutes) and the other two about 7 minutes each.
Despite recording flush with the unbearable noise not escape the technical preparation of the musicians, a good harmony dribbled between dream and a sound reminiscent underground, some trace of jazz (eg : the bass riff in "Gypsy Dance "), a fondness for classical music and large winks at prog English (see the finale of "In the sunshine dying") . However, even if the document can only snatch a few pleased appreciation for its testimonial value, the value of music does not always rise as interest. Too many of
copoise instrumental parts are weighted by their excessive length and not all solo moments stand out for creative insight.
" Gypsy Dance" for example, is basically a continuous solo which lasts for fifteen long minutes and then not too close with the usual progressions originally crimson iana memory.
course, it is obvious to think that the presence of a record production have filed certain long expansions, but the fact is that in the long run, the sound returned from the CD is far too fragmentary, to say the edge of boredom.
Listening is also thought that the five proposed pieces were part of the future concept album , given the constancy of the recitatives , the positioning of the vocal el 'tracks uniform continuity, but this not given to know for sure.
What is clear is that, by choice or misfortune, no record had the courage to invest in the group or that the six musicians have never had a chance to make a qualitative leap. Personally, if I had been a producer for the evening, I would have probably been abducted by last 20 minutes, much more complex and dynamic as the original, but in all honesty, I also asked the group of me feel more "full-bodied " , perhaps with the intent to make a brief LP or a 45, which had condensers without loss the actual capacity of the band.
With the conspiracy but did not make history and Paradiso cheap remains only witness, like any important document, but certainly not essential.
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