Osanna Palepoli

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…

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.

"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…

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music.
"The sun light the shadows, hurricane is just passed on. I come back to my town, alone and with pain. I do not see my people, roads are desert, I look around me and see life is going away…"