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PROGRESSIVE   At last this fantastic box set is available again. But speed up! These are the very last copies left: a very strictly limited edition. Special deluxe box with Biglietto per l'Inferno complete discography! Including their first two studio albums from 1973-1974 on remastered CD, one historic live CD from a rare 1974 concert, one special documentary DVD with unseen footage, and one deluxe book with Biglietto per l'Inferno detailed history featuring 100+ b/w and color photos. DVD Area 0 and NTSC Standard, book with english or italian text! Please note that this reissue is a NTSC standard. But there are no problem for european customer. Everyone can watch this dvd on their TV. www.bigliettoperlinferno.com www.lavetraia.com

ROCK   NEW "Fleurs 2" complete the Fleurs trilogy. The sicilian musician revisit some of the most moving songs from the authors of the past. The athmospheres are soft and easy but in the meantime happy and clear. This new CD features the help of some artists like Carmen Consoli, Sepideh Raisodat, Juri Camisasca, Antony and the Johnsons, Anne Ducros. Tracklist: 1. Tutto l’Universo obbedisce all’Amore; 2. Era d’Estate; 3. E più ti amo; 4. It’s Five o’Clock; 5. Del suo veloce Volo; 6. Et Maintenant; 7. Sitting in the Dock of the Bay; 8. Il Carmelo di Echt; 9. Il Venait d’avoir 18 Ans; 10. Bridge over troubled Water; 11. La Musica muore; 12. L’Addio.

PROGRESSIVE   NEW Logos is the debut album of G.C.Neri from Genoa; it was composed as a concept album and portrays the spiritual travel of the artist who also played all the instruments but the drums performed by Roberto Margliano. It's a fascinating spiritual travel planned by G.C. Neri, an artist who has always believed that music is the last voice from the divine, a message capable to gift some relief to our poor souls which sublimates itself as a sort of sonic prayer. Logos is also a tribute to the roots which moulded the artistic shaping of G.C. Neri, to those artists that helped him to become what he is now, from Led Zeppelin's hard blues to the romanticism of Genesis, from the symphonic attitude of ELP and Yes to the nervy rhythms of King Crimson, from the melodies of Le Orme, PFM and Osanna to the psychedelic tunes of Gong. At last Logos wants to be a path through tradition, the will to feel and create music according to the aesthetic and the sounds of the Seventies.

PROGRESSIVE   NEW Logos is the debut album of G.C.Neri from Genoa; it was composed as a concept album and portrays the spiritual travel of the artist who also played all the instruments but the drums performed by Roberto Margliano. It's a fascinating spiritual travel planned by G.C. Neri, an artist who has always believed that music is the last voice from the divine, a message capable to gift some relief to our poor souls which sublimates itself as a sort of sonic prayer. Logos is also a tribute to the roots which moulded the artistic shaping of G.C. Neri, to those artists that helped him to become what he is now, from Led Zeppelin's hard blues to the romanticism of Genesis, from the symphonic attitude of ELP and Yes to the nervy rhythms of King Crimson, from the melodies of Le Orme, PFM and Osanna to the psychedelic tunes of Gong. At last Logos wants to be a path through tradition, the will to feel and create music according to the aesthetic and the sounds of the Seventies.

PROGRESSIVE   NEW Il Cerchio d'Oro, from Savona, only released three singles at the end of their career, that had begun in 1974. Their beginnings were as one of the many symphonic oriented bands active in their area, with a strong influence by Le Orme. In fact their surviving recordings even include some early tracks played as a trio of keyboards/bass/drums.Unfortunately they couldn't manage to get a recording deal while still in their progressive years, and their only record releases are three singles, issued between 1977 and 1979, in a very commercial style. Two posthumous releases are useful to know this group, a 1999 CD by Mellow, with 12 tracks recorded around 1976, including their first single Quattro mura, and three later tracks in an almost disco-style. Much better is the recent LP La quadratura del cerchio, issued in 2005, that contains 9 unreleased recordings, some of which are covers of tracks by Le Orme, New Trolls, The Trip, along with some originals, and though they come from rehearsal tapes, they show good quality and arrangements. After 25 years of silence the group found again the motivating force to start again playing with the original line up; hence they conceived the idea to write a concept album in the italian prog style mainly influenced by groups like Le Orme, New Trolls, Trip, Osanna, Il Balletto di Bronzo. The definitive title is IL VIAGGIO DI COLOMBO; the tracks don't tell the story of the discovery of the new continent but the one of a journey, wished, searched for, and conquered, a hard travel aggravated by the fear of the unknown. It's a metaphor of every man's life, with his projects, disappointments, satisfactions of reaching the marks which often become the starting points to another journey. The spring of it all is the wish of knowledge, of discovery, to have a project and trying to accomplish it even if we eventually find out that the targets aren't what we expected at first. Digipack!

PROGRESSIVE   NEW The album of the reunion. Digital remastered with Bonus tracks!

PROGRESSIVE   NEW One of their best work! Their last number 1 in USA. Digital remastered with Bonus tracks!

PROGRESSIVE   NEW Quite underrated an album. The song "Blue world" is a classic. Digital remastered with bonus tracks!