Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock
Titolo: Area

AREA - MALEDETTI (1976)
Chi fosse abituato ad apostrofare gratuitamente i dissidenti con l’accusa di
"bieca esterofilia", dovrebbe spiegare la presenza, in questo sito, di un
gruppo italianissimo come gli Area. Aspettiamo anche di essere illuminati su
un fenomeno apparentemente singolare: a parte gli exploit mondani di
Pavarotti e Bocelli, la nostra musica nel mondo è ricordata per Vivaldi,
Modugno e O Sole Mio. Quale sarà mai, dunque, il motivo per cui un gruppo
così legato agli anni '70 come gli Area continua ad essere rispettato e
ammirato anche dal pubblico straniero, in mercati discografici smaliziati
come Giappone, U.S.A., Regno Unito e Germania: forse la qualità? Ultimo
album inciso dalla formazione storica degli Area, Maledetti è un piatto
carico di sapori forti: l’estremismo vocale di Demetrio Stratos
(Evaporazione); una convulsa improvvisazione di Fariselli su un fondale
jazz-rock (Scum) in cui si intravedono Frank Zappa e Cecil Taylor; un nuovo
inno dai provocatori accenti politici (Gerontocrazia); una complicata pagina
progressive (Giro, Giro, Tondo). La varietà stilistica del disco è
evidenziata da due episodi - Diforisma Urbano e Caos (Parte Seconda) - che
si avvalgono, rispettivamente, del contributo di una poderosa ritmica funky
(Hugh Bullen; Walter Calloni) e di due esponenti dell’avanguardia radicale
(Steve Lacy; Paul Lytton). - B.A.
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 gruppo italianissimo come gli Area.  
che sito?
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 che sito?
http://members.it.tripod.de/album/prog1.htm#PROGRESSIVE1

 Area [Italy]
Updated 6/27/00
Discography
Arbeit Macht Frei (73)
Caution Radiation Area (74)
Crac! (75)
Are(A)zione (75, live)
Maledetti (Maudits) (76)
Event '76 (76, live)
Anto/Logicamente (77)
1978 Gli Dei Se Ne Vanno, Gli Arrabbiati Restano! (78)
1979 Il Concerto - Ommagio a Demetrio Stratos (79?, includes various
artists)
Tic and Tac (80)
Area '70 (80?)
Parigi Lisbona (96, recorded '76)
Concerto Teatro Uomo (96, recorded '76)
Chernobyl 7991 (97)
Reviews
An inventive Italian jazz rock fusion band. Their first 4 albums are
classics of inventive Italian jazz rock fusion featuring the stupendous
vocalist Demetrio Stratos who may have been one of the most unique singers
in history. Stratos unfortunately passed away so many years ago. Their first
four Arbeit Macht Frei, Caution Radiation Area, Crac! and Areazione are only
recommended to the explorative but will reward the listener with their
uniqueness.
One of the most unique bands ever. Riveting ultra-high energy schizophrenic
jazz-rock fronted by the operatic vocals of Demitrios Stratos. The band's
Instrumentation was guitar, bass, drums and keys with trombone, bass
clarinet and flute. There are five albums I know of: Arbeit Macht Frei,
Caution Radiation Area, Crac!, Areazione, and Maledetti. I've only heard 2,
3 and 5, but these are all pretty much equal in intensity. Probably not
recommended for the Marillion/Alan Parsons crowd.
Crac! is a phenomenal album. It is hard to describe but, to my ears, it
often sounded quite a bit like a cross between National Health and
Mahavishnu Orchestra. But this band was out long before National Health.
There are several places where the classic Stewart Hammond organ tone is
used. There is incredible interplay here. Demetrio Stratos, the vocalist,
can't be described by me, but he is rather unique and very good. He takes
vocal excursions to places where few vocalists dare to tread. Italian
lyrics. Only the last cut is a hard listen, being similar to "crash and
bang" Henry Cow, but it's only two minutes long so I usually listen to it.
Fans of National Health and Mahavishnu Orchestra (and I think Gentle Giant
fans) would really go for this. Highly recommended to those who like spice
in their music!
This is the best italian progressive band, in Italy they are a cult band and
the voice of Demetrio Stratos is unforgettable. They started with a
free-jazz sound like Soft Machine and Nucleus. Then they became more
experimental with an interest in Arabian and Greek popular music (Stratos
was Greek).
These guys are great! Crac! is one of the better early Italian efforts. Area
can be described by one word ... insanity. They play complicated pieces so
fast, so well, and feature a general weirdness that puts them almost in the
avant garde mold. No one sounds like Area and no one ever will. They use
fast, intricate, overlapping rhythms and their vocalist alternatively howls,
whines, growls, moans and yodels (occasionally he even sings!) The singing
in in Italian so I have no idea what he's saying but the singing style makes
me wish I did. This is a classic for the experimental.
Crac! is the only one I've heard all the way through. It's one of the most
original Italian bands. They do a sort of dramatic jazz-fusion with some
unbelievable vocals by Demetrio Stratos. I can't really compare them to any
other band, because there never really was another band like Area. The band
is quite adept at playing in odd time-signatures, like the fast 11/8 meter
on "L'Elefante Bianco." Notable is bassist Ares Talovazzi, because it's not
often that a bassist can catch my attention unless he's really good. The
band makes occasional use of horns, woodwinds and multiple synthesizers; the
latter played not only by keyboardist Patrizio Fariselli, but also by guitar
player Giampaolo Tofani (Stratos also plays some keyboards). Stratos' vocals
give an air of avant-garde to the music, yet it's accessible enough to be
appealing to the less adventurous. A good starting point for people
exclusively familiar with symphonic prog, but wishing to try something more
experimental. -- Mike Ohman
One of the really interesting bands from the '70s. Briefly: They sound like
a mix of Balkan music, Weather Report, Cecil Taylor and King Crimson.
Technically they are on the same level. Their records are as different as
King Crimson's, so do not give up if you dont like the first one you hear.
The singer, Demetrio Stratos (unfortunately dead now), has a powerful,
overwelming voice. He experiments with all the sound possibilities of a
voice, and also with more than one tone at the time. He made three solo
records that were 10 years ahead of their time. A tribute live-2CD to him is
also available. The bass player from the first record went to PFM, I think
he was not versatile enough. The guitarist Gian Paolo Tofani made a solo
record: Indicazzioni (1977), that probably would make Robert Fripp or Henry
Kaiser raise their eyebrows and maybe even blush from envy. It is partly
played on a Les Paul mounted with an EMS prototype guitarsynth, making
sounds that I have not heard anywhere else! -- Michael Bohn Fuglsang
Parigi Lisbona and Concerto Teatro Uomo are live recordings never before
issued. Concerto Teatro Uomo is a complete two-hour show.
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album inciso dalla formazione storica degli Area, 
Ma non era "1978 gli dei se ne vanno,gli arrabbiati restano" ? 
Sayonara !!
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Gabriele"Dark Schneider"Orlando
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In ascolto:The Beatles,"The Beatles (White Album)",1968
               The Greatful Dead,"Aoxomoxoa",1969
               Pink Floyd,"Ummagumma",1969                
               Robert Wyatt,"Rock Bottom",1974 
<<Keeping an eye on the world goin' by my window>> 
John Lennon,"I'm Only Sleeping",Revolver (1966)

uniqueness.
Maledetti e 1978 li aggiungerei tranquillamente.
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