Interpersonal relationships and the links that follow lead to surprising and unknown destinations, and a fleeting reading an article I read online you can get in a flash across the world, finding human affinity uncommon.
If I had to reconstruct the path that led me to Paul Carelli, use a lot 'of time, telling of a domino effect that eventually leads to complete satisfaction, because the "actors "found along the way, although no familiar face, take great significance, being the common language used, and speak the same language ... (ideas and feelings) is not a thing to be underestimated.
In this "spider web" of link-matching technology, the network, the world that affects us every day without us being able to touch, play an important role.
But the idea that I made is that Paul Carelli is not at ease "in the new", as it probably was forty years ago. It's not about "being modern" or not, but to live life according to an alternative vision to what others plan to us. And then the mind of the poet is not exactly like that of the technical: they are both, sometimes you tend to switch roles, but figures are poles apart ... at least in my worldview.
The chance to talk with Paul has given me the Loris Furlan, owner of Lizard Records, which gave me the chance to get the album's debut " Mirror Maze "a young Tuscan group with whom Carey had collaborated to design " Hanblecheya . Of them speak in a later post and dedicated.
But who is the poet / musician Paul Carelli ? Why is it considered "a name" of the Italian prog of the 70s? Who were the Pholas dactylus ? What value has the "The Concert of mind? "
At the end of this post I quote the only objective evidence found on the net, but before you talk about my" encounter voice, "I would like to highlight a little note, two lines that sent me Massimo Gasperini of Black Widow, who has just reissued the vinyl that I mentioned.
Gasperini writes about the PD:
" Band unique!
Genoa were famous because in 71 or 72, I forget, at the Pop Festival, they played twice on the first day, but then in the second to BLACK WIDOW of the place that does not occur.
was the crowd cheering and the organizers decided to make them riesibire, by popular demand!
I have always loved this group and see how I could reprint it for now on vinyl!
The sound is hypnotic, tribal, and progressive but very defined and can remember the German groups, in particular, Amon Dull, but the visionary nature of the texts and the way of declaiming rather than singing, makes them unique.
Group in its own way brilliant! "
Saturday morning we heard on the phone, and I Paul, and we talked for at least 50 minutes.
was not an interview, I had a ladder, perhaps reassured by the fact that Furlan had warned me: "You'll see how things has to tell!" or, just give the "the "and the machine part.
Unfortunately, only the first half hour of recording remained intact and I'm interesting nuances, such as his description of the album's lyrics of the Mirror Maze.
But in the 20 minutes lost items were also painful that I might have failed or otherwise treated with much effort. I refer to the physical condition guitarist of the past, Elleino "Lello" Colledet, as described by Furlan:
... musician of great talent and skill of Pholas dactylus (its great part of textures and insistent sound of the schizoid Pholas), for years a sort of Italian Syd Barret, with serious health problems .
brings us to chat. I tried to bring a few of my comments, which were many, considering that Paul is talking to ... but it's exciting to he want to talk about today.
Hello Paul, I picked up that much you love the Internet and its applications ... question of pure hate?
No look, pure state of neo rampant illiteracy, combined with an abundant form of denial, and so is the use of technological means to preserve daughters.
I became the interview!
Athos You are what? ... So I explain my past.
But you sound even ?
Yes, everything is bad.
Consulates because I do not sound at all ... ever played in my life.
Story of my garage full of tools and use of my patience.
It 's a tragedy, the artists are "cursed" because of this ... must be isolated, not having social relationships, family, must stand alone to build, and do undoing, without any interference or disturbance ... is crucial.
But do not think that after so much effort a bit 'of vision should have it? After all, the beauty of music and sharing it!
Now I interview him.
I would rather not meet you in person and on phone. Where are you from?
Savona.
Then you will have heard of the famous meeting that debuted during the dactylus Pholas ... the study of Genoa G, De Scalzi ... Magma Records? Lately there has been a festival organized by the CSPI organized by Riccardo Storti, there were Vittorio De Scalzi, Gianni Belleno, elements of "The Old Inn," Milk and Honey, all organized in a middle school, complete with show memorabilia , where we had the opportunity to listen in silence religious, with a small audience of journalists and music critics, in the auditorium, a work of Aldo De Scalzi in virtual collaboration with Demetrio Stratos. I listened to the song with your eyes Enclosed, Giampiero Nava Linati and Rinaldo. Unfortunately it was Maurizio absent Pancotti for commitments made previously. We went to Genoa for this thing, to me, talk to share a special moment.
I talked to BWR, excited about the vinyl reissue of the "Concert for the minds."
Yes, the BW had contact M. Pancotti, or rather his daughter, and so, mail shots, we got to the reissue of the vinyl for the collectors' market, and from there came the push to achieve another album, and input to put together the band. All are rare, I for one, even if I tried to throw a stone into the pond with the others, but without much success.
But why in a moment in which all tend to gather, you are opposed to a reunion?
Look, here we have a local area which is called "Bloom", run by a former so-called free radio, Radio Montevecchia ( http://www.bloomnet.org/ )
Montevecchia But six? We often spent time.
No, but in this area, the Brianza, has brought forth a lot of music.
But to say that there is a school Brianza? There are areas that you are homogeneous in terms of music?
Well, Liguria has also created great musicians, without disturbing F. De Andrè.
If we speak of Savona and my beloved prog, I think it is "reborn" Joe Bishops ... I saw recently in Rome with the Trip.
Bishops Ah ... but then you've heard of Radio Popolare di Milano, radio offers historical alternative music, and promotes events, even progressive, but not limited ( http://www.radiopopolare.it/ ). Along with the filmmakers, directors, had planned to Bloom Mezzago something that is a cauldron boiling and in continuous turmoil. Always proposing things very alternative, prog mainly, but also other, and then there's the Live Club Trezzo ( http://www.liveclub.it/ ), a local weekly that offers endless groups also neoprog, and there are many ... we are faced with a big return to music prog, then define it is an understatement.
Sure, but only to give a place and do understand what we're talking about.
Yeah, to frame the context. However, I told you, you are planning a sort of archive of prog going to fish out the veterans, so you can find pieces of the Bank rather than the Analogy, or The Castle of Atlas neoprog Garybaldi or without Bamby Fossati (absent with my sovereign regret) and are carried live DVD, so a good situation and sooner or later ..
We try too?
I've thrown out to veterans of PD As you know we were down to four (Valentino Galbraith, one of two keyboards, died). Elleino Colladet, a wonderful guitar player, responsible for 90% of music-making, has some problems, but then ... everyone has his own business, for example Giampiero Nava, the drummer, is an architect ... we met, we feel everyone ... but ... at home.
difficult to live together!
Yes, of course, but then he put together a group back to its early period, called kleptomania
From Clapton or illness?
from kleptomania, you know who pillaged in supermarkets .. have a repertoire of English and American prog and occasionally do some evening by "young boomers."
Well, the sprite is!
True, and still sound despite the family, children, work, retirement as a distant mirage (not for me that I've reached a few months).
I always think that when 'll get the pension I will have more space for music, so you can now devote much time!?
Yes, but more than the music I would say to write, I speak of the time it takes to put down the clipboard, to process the sudden things that come to mind, I have a string of text post PD Loris Furlan know the Lizard?
Yes, it is he who put me in touch with you.
Well, Loris has agreed to let us record, me and the boys from the Tuscany, Mirror Maze.
This is why I came to you, listening to their CD.
Send my album is ... we had a great time to deliver it. Then there was sort of a festival dedicated to Demetrio Stratos, Tree of One Hundred, where I was invited along with Luca Vicenzi, and there I read some poems in the form of reading, and a letter virtual I never sent nor have I ever wanted to send a Stratos, as if he were still alive, in one form surreal, dreamlike, where, however, say real things really happened, actually had contacts with Demetrius, and so it was a wonderful experience.
I'm sorry that you now is not attached to a PC because I'd send you some of the things that I write every day, and not just about music ... I too would like to propose in the form of reading.
Sooner or later we will meet .. happen, opportunities will come ... Lori has huge resources.
Loris ... I feel great affinity with him is that he said .. " You should know that Paul Carelli has some incredible things to tell ", and here we are.
I came to Lori in a different way, through Origgi, which has a leather goods store in Vimercate, and is part of official fan club of Tom Waits with Achilles Magni, a close friend of Loris, and ... one thing leads to .
Do not you think sometimes through coincidences and small meetings will create links with people who do not know, more important than newspapers?
Yes, sometimes these things happen beautiful, but many neglect are important, are good for your heart, you are from God when you are new knowledge they have affinities with you.
You mentioned a new prog bands, in all who listen, and there are many, I find the need to look not only to music, but to use other forms of art ... integration with painting, picture theater, poetry.
Look, it's a bit 'to trying to do the PD, and that they would probably have done if they had continued, which is to enlarge the sphere of influence, bring art to 360 degrees, in a container where various forms of artistic expression, become activities that "form" ... this is how we have become. But then this happened, in general, in the world of creativity and still happens. People who fills a former church to listen to contemporary music and see where we play, we dance, we are dedicated to visual arts, in short, a whole variegated and at the same time impact .
But this fact seems more contemporary, because I do not remember large groups of the 70's pretty much dedicated to this! Favored music, and maybe the lyrics, but not much more.
Well, PD, played more often in infamous places in terms of acoustics, sports arenas with sound engineers very approximate, and the engineer is a musician in a more group, and this is a fact. You may also be a great artist, but with a noise not up, not going anywhere. This is for the performances. To As regards the recording of vinyl records ... think about!
But you still listen to vinyl? LP continues to pursue the ritual? Finding oneself at home with friends, put the disc with extreme caution on the plate ... but now there is time to do so.
Grard, the Achilles Magni I mentioned earlier, has transformed his basement in a warehouse of vinyl, tens of thousands, and is a great collector.
For him it is a build-up!?
More or less. I do not have a lot of LP, but keep an eye on the creative aspect, innovation, or recovery of the best of the past, because it is cyclic and repeats itself.
Just have the patience to wait and go back to the beginning. Were you able to transfer your love to someone in your family ... and your daughters, for example?
Absolutely not, with my wife and I shared more or less important events, and even now it can happen who in his spare time looking for the performance of a certain quality, perhaps total strangers ... a chamber quartet, the guitarist's strange, the vocal performer. My daughters have had a course of normal adolescence, punctuated by their music, but nothing comparable to what has happened to me, and even the piano that we bought is there gathering dust.
Meet Pandora of Turin?
No.
Bel prog band live where father and son. Do you think that, without know, I saw a Genesis concert in 1974, along with Beppe Colombo, the larger of the two father and son ... ... would be nice to spend the passions without forcing.
is not the case either to force or to have expectations, leaving children follow their path. My mother was a housewife and my father's army sergeant, with the obvious mania for discipline and order, far from the visionary Paul Carelli, engaged in flights of fancy, with a psychedelic trip and not only in the years of the counterculture, the birth of prog.
And what about this new experience with the LDS?
E 'was great fun, although a bit' painful, especially on their part; not cost me much, it was enough to keep in touch with Philip Menconi, a component that mailed me their texts with their demo, with a toss as a kind of draft texts recited by the guitarist and music, with the 'Tuscan accent: "Sorry about that! for pronunciation, leave space to you, come as you think, the passage where the text is lacking this ... ". The song was "nothing in the ethereal", based on the theme of a vision of their choice, under the concept album. The other poems were written by the LDS and I have just recited. I repainted and ridocumentato, trying to immerse myself in their work to help them have a structure, and it has succeeded so well that the boys were thrilled with the result and we have put the soul, both during production and post production.
The taped testimony ends and I have to resort to memory, even if I can not reconstruct the meaning that Paul gave to the various steps the text.
In one night I took down all the text and when we found was sufficient for recording a single session, in the style of ... "right first time" .
But why do you think these young people prefer to be channeled into a genre that does not give visibility, difficult to play and to propose and pursue research in specific quality?
They are all students, very young, an even studying in Spain, and in their eyes I saw a light which meant "the desire to create" ... really nice to grab!.
Do you agree that music breaks down generational barriers?
Absolutely, but not limited to those.
Yet when Philip wrote to me gave me the "she" and I told him that ... "so no good!"
also happened to me when we met ... ... but too much reverence I told them to stop and we understood immediately.
Colledet And then the story ... a different story.
A bit 'of information from the internet:
PHOLAS dactylus
TRAINING:
Paul Carelli (vocals)
Eleino Colladet (guitar)
Valentino Galbraith (keyboards) Maurizio
Pancotti (keyboards)
Linati Rinaldo (bass)
Giampiero Nava (drums)
Pholas dactylus I have realized, with Concerto delle Menti, a unique example of progressive avant-garde vocals with only recited, to appeal to those looking for something unusual even for the ' quality of the backing track. The album contains a single suite divided in two sides without interruption, and suddenly it was a rare 45 rpm.
from the province of Milan, Pholas dactylus were formed around 1972 to the guitarist Eleino "Lello" Colladet, Vimercate, coming from Macus 67, which put the group together from the beginning and adding bassist Rinaldo Linati Galbraith then Valentino and Giampiero Nava, another local beat group, the Puritans (in which militated two future members of Dalton ). For the last arrived the other keyboardist Maurizio Pancotti and the poet / composer Paul Carey, whose surrealist texts were recited by the same Carelli instead of being sung.
The first performance of Concerto delle Menti it was the winter of 1972, Cornate d'Adda. The group had a good live activity, playing as a support act for German Amon Düül II and in some festivals, and their LP was released in 1973 on the label Genoese Magma .
The background music is intense and hypnotic in some passages, even if the spoken parts can be boring at times. An interesting and hard to hear, is the beautiful cover by Caesar Monti.
The dissolution of the group arrived in late 1973, financial and health problems prevented them from going further, a shame after the great reviews magazines.
Album difficult to find, minds Concerto was published by Magma with gatefold cover and inner sleeve, with the first yellow label. No counterfeits exist nor foreign press. A single, even more rare, contains two excerpts from the album.
The album was finally reissued on vinyl by Black Widow in 2008, identical to the original cover.
Concerto minds was also reissued on CD in 2003, Japanese label Arcangelo (ARC-7026) with mini-LP. The CD is part of a boxed set of eight dedicated label Grog (but which actually contains only three discs Grog and five originally released for the Magma ).
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