FLEA / ETNA
Genres: Jazz Related Rock, Classic Fusion • Italy

This band released in fact three albums with different names, the first as Flea in the Honey, with the members only identified with English nicknames, then as Flea, and later as Etna. A group from Sicily, but based in Rome, they were one of the many bands taking part to the very influential (and often mentioned in these pages) Viareggio 1971 Pop festival, and in the same year their first album was released by RCA subsidiary Delta, with short songs, a style influenced by hard rock and totally sung in English.  Band members were hidden under pseudonyms and the label probably wanted to promote them as one of the many English bands coming to Italy in search of success. There are some good thing, though, like Mother Mary that was also released as a single with Louise (my little ship) (a song that was also recorded by Cyan and Middle of read more...