30. IL CASTELLO DI ATLANTE -JAPAN TOUR 2008

My dear Japanese friends,

I've a very interesting surprise for you: in November "Il Castello di Atlante" will play in Japan for their Japan Tour.

It's many years that an Italian group hasn't had this extraordinary opportunity of doing 5 consecutive dates in your country, Wow!

"Il Castello di Atlante" is really "unique" in the sense that the band was formed in 1974 with Paolo Ferrarotti on drums, Aldo Bergamini, on guitars, Massimo Di Lauro, on violin and Dino Fiore on bass. Roberto Giordano on keyboards joined the band in 1982. (Paolo, Aldo, Roberto are lead singers as well)

They will come to Japan with THEIR ORIGINAL LINE-UP!!!

It sounds quite incredible as many 70's bands (including arti & mestieri) normally have 1, 2 original members, but IL CASTELLO has THE ORIGINAL LINE-UP!!!

In recent years Dino left the band for a while but now he's back, Great!!!

Il Castello di Atlante's style is authentic 100% pure Italian prog.

I've produced all their albums, starting in the 90's with their first ones when I was producing prog with my friend Massimo Buffa (Vinyl Magic and later BTF) that shared the same passion for the progressive world that was "returning" and you can find those albums at his site, www.btf.it

And now, in this tour IL CASTELLO DI ATLANTE will present their 7th album: "TRA LE ANTICHE MURA" confirming the continuing path of Italian prog

It appears on "Prog Italiano" Electromantic Music's sub label that handles Italian prog.

Electromantic music and the artists thanks deeply HIROSHI MASUDA, who's great passion has helped help and allowed to make this long time dream the band had, to come true!!!

Stay happy and enjoy music everyday, everyone!

Beppe

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日本の皆さんへ、

日本のみんなに、とっても興味のある驚くニュースがあるよ！それはね、１１月に「Il Castello di Atlante」が来日することだよ！

日本で、イタリアのグループが、５日間のコンサートをするこの特別な機会があるのは何年ぶりだろう！スゴイ！

Il Castello di Atlanteは、とても「ユニーク」なグループだ。
ドラムにPaolo Ferraotti, ギターにAldo Bergamini, バイオリンにMassimo Di Lauro, ベースにDino Floreを率いて1974年に結成。1982年に、Roberto Giordanoがキーボードとして参加した。Paoloと、Aldo, Robertoは、リード・シンガーでもあるんだ。

彼らは、このオリジナル・ラインナップで日本へ行くよ！

７０年代のバンドは、arti&mestieri含めて、普通一人や二人のメンバーが変わるものだけど、Il Castelloは、まさにオリジナルのメンバー！！！

Dinoがバンドをしばらく辞めていたが、彼は戻ってきたんだ。サイコーだね！！

Il Castello di Atranteのスタイルは、１００パーセント純粋なイタリア・プログだよ。

僕は、プログ友達のMassimo Buffa（Vinyl MagicレーベルからBTFに移動）と彼らのアルバムをすべてプロデュースしたんだ。そのアルバムは、BTFのウェブサイトに載っているよ。www.btf.it

それから、この日本ツアーにかけて、７枚目のアルバム「TRA LE ANTICHE MURA」をリリースするよ。イタリア・プログの道を歩み続けるという確認の意味でね。

彼らについては、Electromantic Musicのサブ・レーベル、「Prog Italiano」で見つけられるよ。

Electromantic MusicとIl Castello di Atlamteのアーティスト達は、この長年の夢を叶えてくれたマスダ　ヒロシさんに深く感謝しています。

それではハッピーで、毎日音楽を楽しんで！

Beppe

29. DAVID JACKSON AT ELECTROMANTIC SYNERGY STUDIO

My Dear Japanese friends

I'm happy to talk with you about David Jackson who recorded in my studio a few days ago.

He's the talented musician that all of you know and he's a special person as well.

In Italy he's still quite known since the 70's (Van Der Graaf Generator were quite known in Italy at that time: in 1972's Hit Parade they were the only artist to have 3 albums in top places and I'm talking of "Pawn Hearts", "The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other" and "68/71".

And you know that 1972 was a very rich year, as far as "classic albums" are concerned and they reached top places with 3 albums, in the "beautiful Italian 1972"!

..."those were the days!!!:

In that year Pink Floyd had 2 LPs in Hit Parade, , "Obscured by Clouds" and "Meddle"
- Jethro Tull had "Thick as A Brick" and "Living In The Past!"
- ELP had "Trilogy" and "Pictures at an Exhibition" and it was the year of:

John Lennon's "Imagine", Deep Purple's "Machine Head", Led Zeppelin's "IV", Elton John "Honky Chateau", The Stones' "Exile on Main Street", “Clockwork Orange”, PM's "Storia di un minuto", Orme's "un Uomo di Pezza". "The Godfather" and without talkin' of Italian top artist like Mina, Celentano, De Andre', Battisti... but only Vand Der Graa, in all that rich year had 3 LPs on Hit Parade, great!

So, going "back" to these days David recorded in my Electromantic Synergy Studio for..... I like to leave you ... in a mystery for a while... but I can just tell you that there will be another "big" surprise on the same project.

He's done some very interesting performances that will be ..on an
Electromantic Music Production ... soon!

And at the night of that beautiful ... another special event, which made
"that completed the day": with David we attended at Vittorio De Scalzi's concert in acoustic trio in an old church, in the wood, quite beautiful atmosphere and it was a great gig really by Vittorio and his trio!

It was a tribute to Franco Vassia's wife who died 2 years ago and every year there's a concert (Last year it was Roberto Cacciapaglia), and it's organized by Franco himself. Franco is publishing "Nobody's Land" an appreciated Italian magazine/fanzine and he has written the book "I campi della memoria" with interviews to top progressive musicians, for "Electromantic Music".

In this summer, David has been several times in Italy, performing with "Osanna"!

A great day with David, an unexpected night with David and Vittorio and...more news soon about the "mystery", on this blog, soon!

in the meantime,

Stay happy,

Beppe