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The following video is my conversation with my friends Christian Landaeta and Enrico Olivieri. It took place on 2/6/2021 from his home in Italy.
A band based in Rome, though their singer Jimmy Spitaleri was from Sicily, Metamorfosi have released with Inferno another of those album that any Italian prog fan should have.
The group was formed in 1969 when Spitaleri joined the musicians of I Frammenti, a group specialized in the "beat mass" typical of those years.
Their first album, ...e fu il sesto giorno, contains seven songs, the main elements of the band's music are already there, with the almost operatic voice of Jimmy Spitaleri in great evidence and the nice classical influenced playing of keyboards player Enrico Olivieri on a strong rhythm section, but the album is still fragmented and not particularly imaginative, and some 60's influences can still be heard. The group had a five-piece line-up at that point but kept playing as a quartet with no guitar for the second LP.
Second album, Inferno, is their masterpiece, with two long suites (there are 16 titles on the cover but these are only the small pieces forming the Inferno suite) and the majestic voice of Spitaleri perfectly mixed with Olivieri's keyboards to form a highly original and exciting result. Tracks like Caronte are among the best of the Italian prog!
A third album, that was to be called Paradiso as a prosecution to the previous one, was written but never recorded and released, and the band split.
Singer Spitaleri went to the USA and later, coming back to Italy, released two solo albums in 1979 and 1980, the first under the name of Thor, the second with his real name Davide Spitaleri.
The band made some reunion concerts in the 90's around the leading duo of Spitaleri and Olivieri, and the long waited Paradiso project emerged again. The CD was finally released in the summer of 2004, a vibrant album that took again where Inferno had ended, the sound being not so different though less dark than before. The group included on the CD Jimmy Spitaleri, Enrico Olivieri and a very solid rhythm section of newcomers Leonardo Gallucci (bass and classical guitar) and Fabio Moresco (drums). The band presented the new CD with concerts in Italy and in the USA playing at the NearFest in Philadelphia.
The recording of another concert held in Rome in December 2004, in the church of S.Galla using the pipe organ and acoustic instruments, was issued in 2011 on the CD La chiesa delle stelle.
The same line-up as on previous album issued in 2016 the last chapter of the trilogy, Purgatorio, released both on LP and on CD with bonus tracks.
Singer Spitaleri joined Le Orme in 2010-11 and appeared on two of their latest albums, Progfiles - Live in Rome and La via della seta.
About Christian: English teacher and KZbinr who enjoys sharing his hobbies and promoting his favorite music all the time. Grew up listening to French pop, vintage orchestras, American pop of the ’60s, and classical music, adding progressive rock, electronic music from the ’70s, Soul, Hard-rock, Alternative pop, Fusion-jazz, Disco, and Film music. As a school teenager, he began his adventures in radio programming and production and has worked for leading Chilean Fm radios such as Concierto Fm and Futuro Fm in the 80s and 90s. Big fan of records players, radio consoles, jukeboxes, and vinyl who majored in English Teaching with a degree in English Linguistics.
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1) ( / 249206348488844 - Videos, opinions, about the music of Futuro Fm 1989-1996, when the radio station gathered the so-called “Inmense Minority” interested in Progressive Rock, Classic Rock, Jazz-Rock, Fusion-Jazz, Electronic-Rock/Avant-Garde Electronics, New-Age, Indie/Alternative Pop and other styles, normally excluded from radio programming. The group is also projected towards the recuperation of time since most of the aforementioned styles were withdrawn from its playlists but has no relation whatsoever with the current-day radio station and here 2) / @christianlandaetatorr... )

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Nice memories and a very fine conversation with a legendary musician from the best italian rock.