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Piccho dal Pozzo: A_Live

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In the continually expanding world of progressive rock--an expansion facilitated through global communities created via the internet over the last decade-and-a-half--it's increasingly common to find groups garnering far more (and, often, well-deserved) attention than they did back in their time. Italy's Picchio dal Pozzo only released two albums back in the day--Picchio dal Pozzo (Grog, 1976) and Abbiamo Tutti I Suoi Problemi (L'Orchestra Cooperative, 1980)--but as its country's only known group to expand on the tradition of British Canterbury groups ...

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Yugen: Uovo Fatali: Yugen Plays Leddi

Read "Uovo Fatali: Yugen Plays Leddi" reviewed by John Kelman


While the concept of a new kind of classical music--liberally cross-pollinating beyond its furthest reaches--has been evolving since the 1970s with artists ranging from Univers Zero to Frank Zappa, there are those sadly overlooked in a new chamber music as likely to mix electric keyboards with violins as it is mandolin and drums with clarinets and grand piano. Multi-instrumentalist Tommaso Leddi was a founding member of Italy's Stormy Six, one of the seminal Rock in Opposition groups alongside Univers Zero, ...


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