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