>>> BTF NEWSLETTER >>> november 3rd 2008

Welcome to the new BTF Newsletter! Please remember you have a second telephone number to contact BTF staff: +39 331 8113302 In this Newsletter you will find stunning reissues on LP and other interesting CDs indie news

MUSIC BOOKS   NEW A fantastic book concerning the first seminal album from New Trolls. An album really important for the sixties and for the seventies. Interviews, trivia, in-depth analysis on those important years in a city like Genova, crucible of so many influences.

PROGRESSIVE   NEW First album for the Naples Band, with a sound that recalls Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Great guitar riff and rhythm section. 150 gr. vinyl!

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

PROGRESSIVE   NEW The name of Città Frontale brings together two groups from Naples from two different periods. The first was organized at the beginning of the seventies and included keyboard player Gianni Leone plus other four musicians. With the addition of Elio D’Anna this group will later become Osanna. After some brief live work the group broke up without leaving any kind of recordings. In 1974, following Osanna ‘s break up, Vairetti and Guarino brought together some new names from the always fertile scene of Naples to reform a new Città Frontale group. Among these musicians there was also the ex Saint Just member Gianni Guarracino. Their only album was released by Fonit in 1975 titled El Tor. Musically it contained two sides which are completely different: on the first one, the group is influenced by funky and jazz with strong horns parts, while the second one is more acoustic, in a “californian” style. The lyrics underline their strong social and political involvement. After El Tor the band disbanded since Vairetti and Guarino went to reform Osanna. Now BTF reprint this wonderful album in the usual faithful cover.

SIXTIES / BEAT   NEW First Italian record released only in Stereo version. Great beat songs with orchestral arrangements by Scala Orchestra. Cover by Mario Schifano. LP in the original gatefold sleeve! 150 gr. vinyl!

PROGRESSIVE   NEW A band from Bari released in 1973 this progressive symphonic concept album, with jazz-rock influences and a great use of keyboards. LP in the original gatefold sleeve! 150 gr. vinyl!

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.

PROGRESSIVE   NEW Remember the famous tour PFM did with Fabrizio De Andrè back in 1978/79? PFM strike back and release this wonderful DVD+CD consisting of De Andrè classics revisited during the 2007/08 tour. Track list features “Bocca di Rosa”, “La guerra di Piero”, “Un giudice”, “Il testamento di Tito”, “Volta la carta”, “Il Pescatore” and more…

PROGRESSIVE   NEW The guitar player of Formula 3, in this first album, has helped by Area members and produced by Lucio Battisti. 150 gr. vinyl!

PROGRESSIVE   NEW With Pink Floyd and No-Man psychedelic influences Raven Sad debut album stands as a big effort. Samuele B. Santanna is the leader and together with Marco Tuppo from Nema Niko manages to recreate the dark atmosphere that pervades Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven". Glimpse of ambient and electronic music but dipped into a dark-progressive folk atmosphere.

PROGRESSIVE   NEW Made in Rome in 1972, this album was inspired to philosophical work of Hegel. Hard-rock with progressive influences. LP in the original triple-gatefold with famous bronze coin!

AMBIENT / ELECTRONICA / AVANTGARDE   NEW Last opus for Vittorio De Scalzi. A collection of charming musical frescos. If you admire De Scalzi’s skill in writing soundtracks you can’t miss this new chapter of his career.