Max Gazze' LA Matematica Dei Rami

Having started as a traditional jazz ensemble in the late 60s, with the turn of a new decade Perigeo tuned in for the prog rock wave and expanded their style as they began their recording career. Not that they became less jazzy, but definitely they became more sensitive and receptive towards the jazz fusion influence of Return to Forever and Weather Report, post-Wyatt Soft Machine, and even some occasional colours of "Caravanserai"-era Santana latin jazz and a bit of prog-oriented psychedelic sounds. By the time they recorded this, their album no. 4, Perigeo was a well known act in the avant- garde jazz circuits of Italy. The catchy opening track is a perfect example of the band's ability to write attractive musical ideas and technical proficiency (perhaps this is the Perigeo album to start with).

Faveravola is a progressive band with deep roots back in the late Sixties and early Seventies. The musicians on Faveravola belonged to unknown bands from the Treviso area, like Diamond Red (for guitarist Alessandro Bonotto), like Dinoterium Rex (for keyboards player Giancarlo Nicorelli and bass player Adriano Durighetto), then turned into proto-prog band Opera Prima. Drummer Paolo Coltro comes from rythm & blues band Le Tarme. Faveravola is a band of musicians getting back together after more than 30 years…

Formed in Florence in 1964 with a line-up which included brothers Ugo and Raffaele Ponticiello along with bassist Giuliano Giunti and drummer Ubaldo Palanti (later replaced by Mauro Sarti, who also played with Campo di Marte and Bella Band), Spettri releases some singles in 1966-67, evolving then from the intial beat style to a rock sound with hard influences. Drummer Giorgio Di Ruvo joined them in 1968 and the line-up was enriched by organist Stefano Meloni in 1970 and bass player Vincenzo Ponticiello in 1971. The group's live repertoire was made of covers by the likes of Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Spirit, but they began composing original material in form of a suite, issued on record for the first time only in 2011 and often played at the time in their concerts held in Tuscany and Lazio…

Giacomo Facco was born on 1676 in the Most Serene Republic of Venice, in the small village of Marsango. The first documentary records of his work are in a series of cantatas, dated 1702, kept in Naples. It is there he may have started working for Antonio Spi?nola. The Spi?nola family was part of the high Spanish nobility and Antonio, during the War of the Spanish Succession, was appointed Viceroy of Sicily, where he lived until 1713. Facco also moved there with the marquis’ court, and had a period of intense activity, during which he premiered several operas and oratorios, as well as some cantatas.