Maasimo Osanna

Tempo, long waited new Osanna release with a 40 pages book with lots of photos and 2 DVD. Prog lovers will be captured by this work full of great music with a recent concert at Trianon Theatre in Naples with orchestra and archives material with rare 70s video footage…

"Preludio, tema, variazioni, canzona", also known as "Milano Calibro 9", is Osanna's second studio album and was released in 1972 on the Fonit Cetra label. It marks the collaboration between the band and Argentine-Italian film composer Luis Enriquez Bacalov (who had previously worked with the New Trolls) and was conceived as the score for the film "Milano Calibro 9". Director Fernando Di Leo was very impressed by the album "Concerto Grosso per i New Trolls" and asked Luis Bacalov to compose the soundtrack for his film "Milano Calibro 9" in the same style. Osanna were chosen to perform the score interacting with an orchestra and, according to an interview with Lino Vairetti, they recorded the music while watching the film on a screen in a theatre and for them this was really a new exciting experience…

Osanna is classic seventies Italian prog. The basis of their sound is original heavy guitar rock often in combination with amazing flute solos. Additionally, more spacey, Pink Floydian parts and quiet interludes with acoustic guitar and flute can be heard as well. There are plenty of mood changes and surprises that make this music very dynamic and interesting. Their first three are masterpieces in their own right.
The structure of "Palepoli" is very similar to albums like "A Passion Play" and "Thick As A Brick" from Jethro Tull. Each side of the album contains 20-minutes of an album-length epic. However, the music, rather than being Jethro Tull-like, is influenced by early King Crimson (jazzy sax-driven parts), and the Italian prog-rock of the time…

This set by Legendary Italian progressive rock band Osanna includes one disc with 12 new pieces by Lino Vairetti and Pino Chillemi. The other disc features a re-recording of the entire “Palepoli” album.
The title “Palepolitana” is a word that merges the terms Palepoli (the historic city of Naples) and Metro (the Naples subway, famous throughout the world for its extraordinary “stations of contemporary art”).
The new Osanna line-up includes Lino Vairetti on vocals, acoustic and 12-string guitars and harmonica; Gennaro Barba on drums; Pako Capobianco on electric, acoustic and 12-string guitars; Nello D’Anna on bass; Sasa Prior on piano, Fender Rhodes, organ and synthesizers; Irvin Vairetti on vocals, mellotron and synthesizers…

One of the greatest bands in the Italian prog field, Osanna came from Naples, formed in 1971 by the members of I Volti di Pietra and Città Frontale (another band with the same name came from Osanna ashes and recorded El Tor) whose keyboard player Gianni Leone has gone to Balletto di Bronzo. Reeds player Elio D'Anna came from Showmen, the others didn't have significant experiences.Second album, Preludio, tema, variazioni, canzona, also known as Milano calibro 9 from the name of the film for which it was chosen as soundtrack, is a step backward, with few band compositions mixed with composer Bacalov's orchestral themes. Some of the Osanna tracks are beautiful, though, like the first three Variazione.

In 1977, after the negative experiences of Uno and Città Frontale, founder members Lino Vairetti, Danilo Rustici and Massimo Guarino reformed Osanna with a new line up featuring Enzo Petrone on bass and Fabrizio D'Angelo Lancellotti on keyboards and synthesizers. "Suddance" was released in 1978, when the Halcyon Days of prog were coming to an end…

Osanna - Rosso Rock - Live In Japan (2012) {Afrakà CDRG-2212}
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Rock / Progressive Rock

The tale of the Italian progressive rock band Osanna is long and storied but perhaps the most important factor is that through thick and thin they are still with us. Today the band is made up of Lino Vairetti (vocals), Gennaro Barba (drums), Irvin Vairetti (keyboards and vocals), Sasà Priore (keyboards), Pasquale Capobianco (guitar), and Nello D'Anna (bass). It is this line-up that we hear performing from a 2011 concert recorded in Japan. If you are a fan of the classic Italian symphonic style this is a disc that will be right up your alley. Better yet if you like live performances.