Dalton
(1967-1979, Rock Progressivo Italiano)
I
Dalton (I)
1967-69:
o
Mimmo Saponaro (vocals, bass)
o
Rolando Belli (guitar, vocals)
o
Lino Cornali (organ)
o
Angiolino Bergamini (drums)
1970
enters:
o
Mauro Pagani (violin, flute)
Dalton
(II)
1972-74:
o
Temistocle Reduzzi (keyboards, vocals)
o
Aronne Cereda (guitar, vocals)
o
Alex Chiesa (flute, vocals)
o
Rino Limonta (bass, vocals)
o
Walter "Tati" Locatelli (drums, vocals)
1975:
o
Aronne Cereda (guitar, vocals)
o
Giancarlo Brambilla (keyboards)
o
Rino Limonta (bass)
o
Walter "Tati" Locatelli (drums)
Two
groups with the name Dalton existed in the Brescia-Bergamo area, and
there's always been much confusion about them.
The
first group was formed in 1967, releasing in the same year their
first single ”Monia”
(later re-released) and appearing at 1969 Cantagiro festival with Da
cinque anni,
and among their productions there was also the Italian version of the
hit ”Venus”
by
the dutch band Shocking Blue. The same line-up played on all the
early singles except the last one, ”Venus”,
where Bergamini was replaced by a drummer from Milan named Adamo.
Incidentally ”Venus”
was sung by guitarist Belli, while the lead singer of the band was
bassist Saponaro.
In
1970, after their last single, the line-up was expanded with a fifth
element, multiinstrumentalist Mauro Pagani, who had already played
with Dalton's drummer in the beat group Gli Araldi around 1966. With
this line-up Dalton played many concerts, but in September 1970 they
broke up when Pagani was noticed by the members of I Quelli and
invited to join them to form Premiata
Forneria Marconi.
Dalton's style in live concerts was a rock-blues with psychedelic
influences and long instrumental parts.
The
name Dalton was later used by another group, with no connections with
the previous one and a totally different line-up, which released a
very good debut album with Riflessioni:
idea d'infinito (1973). With a great use
of flute and good guitar riffs, the album has some very good moments,
like ”Idea d'infinito” with some Jethro Tull influences,
”Riflessioni” and the closing ”Dimensione lavoro”, while
”Cara Emily” is a slow acoustic ballad. It has to be noticed that
the album has a very short running time of around 30 minutes. The
band had a moderate success and even won the first prize in a swiss
Pop Festival in Zurich.
After
a good single in 1974, ”La
donna e il bambino”,
the band had a line-up change with Reduzzi and flutist Alex Chiesa
leaving to be replaced by keyboardist Giancarlo Brambilla and singer
Massimo Moretti, but the second album Argitari
(1975, a title formed with the initials of the musicians' names) was
on a lower level than their debut. Mainly built on acoustic guitar,
it seems rather a solo album by singer/guitarist Cereda than a group
record. Newcomer singer Moretti is only credited on backing vocals,
and the sound is generally much weaker than on their debut LP. Also
included is an unusual rendition of Bob Dylan's
”Blowin' in the wind” called ”La risposta”, and one of the
best tracks, ”Visione di una notte d'estate” (with old member
Alex Chiesa on flute) is in fact a reworking of the single ”La
donna e il bambino”
with different mix and lyrics, whose original subject had been
considered too irreverent causing the track to be discarded from the
Sanremo Festival selections.
The
band closed its career with a late commercial single in 1979. Two
band members, Temi Reduzzi and Aronne Cereda, were also involved in a
pop opera released in 1975, Paciana
Story,
a mix of traditional folk and pop. Drummer Walter Locatelli formed
Mo.Do.
Reduzzi remained in the business with a dance band and a music shop
near Bergamo. It's interesting to mention that three of the Dalton
musicians, Aronne Cereda, Giancarlo Brambilla (on bass and then
keyboards) and Rino Limonta played until 1970-71 with the group I
Puritani, that also included two future members of Pholas
Dactylus,
Valentino Galbusera and Giampiero Nava.
2005
has seen a new CD reissue of Dalton's second album, Argitari,
strongly enriched by new flute overdubs by original member Alex
Chiesa, and a much better sound.
One
of the members of the early Dalton line-up, guitarist Rolando Belli,
moved to Germany, where he played for some months and 6 concerts with
Can to replace Michael Karoli during a trip to India. In 1977 he came
to Italy to record with his family a song album credited to Family
Belli (Start
- IAF 89014) and a single (”Solo
se lo vuoi” / ”Foxtrottato”
- IAF 1912).
Dalton
- Ri flessioni: Idea d'Infinito (1973, Prog Rock) 3.64¤ 3.5#
Dalton
- A rgitari (1975, Prog Rock) 2.72¤ 3.5#
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Dedalus
(1973-79, 1990-, Jazz Rock Fusion)
1973:
o
Marco Di Castri (guitar, sax)
o
Fiorenzo Bonansone (keyboards, cello, vocals)
o
Furio Di Castri (bass)
o
Enrico Grosso (drums)
1974-77:
o
Marco Di Castri (guitar, sax)
o
Fiorenzo Bonansone (keyboards, cello, vocals)
o
Enrico Grosso (drums)
1977-79:
o
Marco Di Castri (guitar, sax)
o
Fiorenzo Bonansone (keyboards, cello, vocals)
A
jazz-rock group from Pinerolo, near Turin, Dedalus released two
albums for the collectable Trident
label before disappearing, and also had a good live activity despite
being very far from the most important Italian rock groups of the
time. After their live show at Naples' Festival di Avanguardia e
Nuove Tendenze in 1973, they were described by a popular journalist
as the revelation of the festival.
First
album, Dedalus
(1973), contained a personal blend of jazz-rock, with some
Soft Machine influences and all instrumental, with lead parts of sax,
cello, electric piano and guitar.
The
second album, Materiale per tre esecutori e nastro magnetico,
with the group now as a trio after the departure of bassist Furio Di
Castri for a stable career as jazz upright bass player, was more
avantgarde-oriented with stronger use of electronics.
Dedalus
kept on as a duo in 1977, when drummer Enrico Grosso left, and
collaborated with jazz musicians such as Steve Lacy, but the band had
a definitive split in 1979.
A
reunion was decided in 1990, with the same line-up that had released
the second album, but various musicians came and went in the
following years and an album, Pia visione, was released
in 1997. This CD, only issued in a limited private pressing, features
Fiorenzo Bonansone, Marco Di Castri and bassist Domenico Sciaino, and
is the first in the Dedalus production to have a strong use of vocal
parts (little used on Materiale per tre esecutori e nastro
magnetico only), including the reworking of some traditional
songs to add an odd folk taste to the already extremely original mix
of influences.
Since
2000 Fiorenzo Bonansone has formed a new group, called Bonansone
Dedalus Group, with the intention of reviving the spirit of the
original Dedalus but with a new minimalist approach.
The
first album by the new group has been released in 2004 by BTF/Vinyl
Magic, and also includes reworkings of some tracks already released
on Pia
visione.
In the same way as that previous album, and much different from
earlier Trident
works, Nomos
Apache Alpha
is a fascinating work strongly based on cello and flute, that give it
a strong classical and chamber music feel. The line-up on the CD
includes, along with Bonansone, Anita Cravero on flute, Riccardo
Chiriotto on bass trombone and Michele Kathak Strocchi on drums and
percussion.
The
complete Dedalus production was collected in the compilation box set
Le
ricordanze,
issued in 2017 and also containing a nice book with photos,
information and intervews.
The
group has not to be confused with another Dedalus (also known as
Collettivo Dedalus), a group from Calabria that has privately
released two albums in 1990-91, Singolarefemminile
and La terra delle ginestre mixing
traditional Southern Italy folk tunes with jazz.
Dedalus
- Dedalus (1973, Fusion, Prog Rock)
4.23¤
Dedalus
- Materiale per tre esecutori e
nastro magnetico (1974, Free Improvisation, Jazz Rock Fusion,
Avantgarde, Experimental) 2.25¤
Dedalus
- Pezzi inediti 75-76 + Materiali per tre esecutori e
nastro magnetico (1999, reissue of second album with 9 unreleased
extra tracks)
Dedalus
- Pia visione (1997, Avant-garde
Jazz) 5.00¤
Bonansone
Dedalus - Nomos Apache Alpha (2004)
3.50¤
Dedalus
- Le ricordanze: The complete recordings 1973-2015 (2017, 4 CD
box set with book)
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De
De Lind
(1969-72 Beat Rock / 1973- Rock Progressivo Italiano)
o
Vito Paradiso (vocals, acoustic guitar)
o
Gilberto Trama (flute, sax, keyboards)
o
Matteo Vitolli (guitar, percussion, piano, flute)
o
Eddy Lorigiola (bass)
o
Ricky Rebajoli (drums, percussion)
A
true rarity on an unusual label for the Italian prog (Mercury),
and for sure one of the longest LP names ever conceived, Io
non so da dove vengo e non so dove mai andrò, uomo è il nome che mi
han dato (1973) is
generally considered as one of the top albums in this style. A
perfect record, very well played and sung by this band based in
Milan.
They
began their career in 1969, the odd name coming from a popular
Playboy model of the early 1960's, and only released three singles in
their five years career, the first two closer to the Italian beat of
the time, while the third had a good rockier B-side in ”Torneremo
ancora”. though still far from their LP sound. The group was a
sextet in the picture on the cover of the 1969 single, reduced to a
five-piece in the second, a year later.
The
album came in 1973, the vocal parts are short but very well made by
singer Paradiso,
leaving plenty of room to acoustic atmospheres and the sudden
assaults of guitarist Vitolli and flute/sax/keyboards player Trama,
and the seven tracks on the album are all highly regarding, with a
mention for ”Smarrimento”
with a sweet flute introduction, a furious guitar/flute interplay
followed by the acoustic guitar based vocal parts that leads to a
powerful guitar-driven end.
After
the album release De De Lind played at 1973 Rassegna di Musica
Popolare held in Rome, and at Be-In festival in Naples, with new
drummer Fabio Rizzato.
Singer
Vito
Paradiso
had a short solo career in 1978-80, while the rest of the band has
totally disappeared. Before forming De De Lind drummer Rebajoli had
played with New Dada and I Nuovi Angeli, with which he returned after
leaving this group.
De
De Lind
- “Anche se sei qui” / ”Come si fa?” (1969, single,
Beat Rock)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxxC60rM8Q
“Anche se sei qui”
De
De Lind
- “Mille anni” / ”Ti devo lasciare” (1970, single,
Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExKgCIGQPtw
“Mille anni”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c6T0INU9dY
“Mille anni”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irwZKvIbAYo”Ti
devo lasciare”
De
De Lind
- “Signore dove vai?” / ”Torneremo ancora” (1971,
single, Psychedelic Rock, Funk, Prog Rock, Power Pop)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEjicjHlrdI
“Signore dove vai?”
De
De Lind
- Io non so da dove vengo e non so dove mai andrò, uomo è il nome
che mi han dato (1973, Prog Rock, Art Rock) 3.67¤
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Delirium
(1970-1975)
Delirium
- Dolce acqua (1971)
Delirium
- Lo scemo e il villaggio (1972)
Delirium
- Delirium III (Viaggio negli arcipelaghi del tempo) (1974)
Delirium
- Delirium Live (Vibrazioni notturne) (live 2006, re. 2007)
Delirium
- Il nome del vento (2009)
Delirium
- L'era della menzogna (2015)
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