(1st Wave) - LE ORME
LE ORME - Italy (1969)
ITALIAN & SYMPHONIC PROGRESSIVE ROCK
Italy produced several excellent progressive rock groups during the 1970s, and then again in the 1990s. LE ORME is one of the oldest and best known. Created by bassist Aldo Tagiapietra, keyboardist Toni Pagliuca and drummer Mike Dei Rossi, the band harkens back to some of the Seventies groups built upon keyboard parts (e.g., RARE BIRD, The NICE, ATOMIC ROOSTER), as well as BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO, due to the Italian vocals. The group stayed together during the 1970s, during which time they evolved into an EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER-type progressive rock band, cutting four albums in that vein.
Re-formed as a quartet (keyboards/sitar, bass, keyboards, drums), and with a guest guitarist for the album “Il Fiume,” LE ORME returned to what they did best: elaborate symphonic style with a classical touch, enhanced lyricism, and development of complex, delicate themes with lots of breaks, including dreamy or nostalgic ambiences. The group still records, and recently released “Elementi” (2001) and “L’Infinito” (2004). Indeed, “Elementi” has proven to be one of the group’s best albums ever!
DISCOGRAPHY:
Ad Gloriam (69) / L'Aurora Delle Orme (70) / Collage (71) / Uomo Di Pezza (72) / Felona E Sorona (73) / In Concerto (74) / Contrappunti (74) / Smogmagica (75) / Beyond Leng (75) / Verita' Nascoste (76) / Canzone d'amore (76) / Storria O Leggenda (77) / Le Orme Antologia 67-69 Vol.1 (78) / Florian (79) / Piccola Rapsodia Dell'Ape (80) / Venerdi (82) / Le Orme (70s collection) - 1983 (83) / Orme (90) / Antologia 1970-1980 (93) / Biancaneve (95) / Il Fiume (96) / Amico Di Ieri (97) / Elementi (01) / L'infinito (04)
BEST ALBUMS:
Collage (71), Uomo Di Pezza (72), Felona E Sorona (73), Contrappunti (74), Florian (79), Elementi (01)
ITALIAN & SYMPHONIC PROGRESSIVE ROCK
Italy produced several excellent progressive rock groups during the 1970s, and then again in the 1990s. LE ORME is one of the oldest and best known. Created by bassist Aldo Tagiapietra, keyboardist Toni Pagliuca and drummer Mike Dei Rossi, the band harkens back to some of the Seventies groups built upon keyboard parts (e.g., RARE BIRD, The NICE, ATOMIC ROOSTER), as well as BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO, due to the Italian vocals. The group stayed together during the 1970s, during which time they evolved into an EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER-type progressive rock band, cutting four albums in that vein.
Re-formed as a quartet (keyboards/sitar, bass, keyboards, drums), and with a guest guitarist for the album “Il Fiume,” LE ORME returned to what they did best: elaborate symphonic style with a classical touch, enhanced lyricism, and development of complex, delicate themes with lots of breaks, including dreamy or nostalgic ambiences. The group still records, and recently released “Elementi” (2001) and “L’Infinito” (2004). Indeed, “Elementi” has proven to be one of the group’s best albums ever!
DISCOGRAPHY:
Ad Gloriam (69) / L'Aurora Delle Orme (70) / Collage (71) / Uomo Di Pezza (72) / Felona E Sorona (73) / In Concerto (74) / Contrappunti (74) / Smogmagica (75) / Beyond Leng (75) / Verita' Nascoste (76) / Canzone d'amore (76) / Storria O Leggenda (77) / Le Orme Antologia 67-69 Vol.1 (78) / Florian (79) / Piccola Rapsodia Dell'Ape (80) / Venerdi (82) / Le Orme (70s collection) - 1983 (83) / Orme (90) / Antologia 1970-1980 (93) / Biancaneve (95) / Il Fiume (96) / Amico Di Ieri (97) / Elementi (01) / L'infinito (04)
BEST ALBUMS:
Collage (71), Uomo Di Pezza (72), Felona E Sorona (73), Contrappunti (74), Florian (79), Elementi (01)
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