Sunday, May 27, 2007

Atlantide - Francesco Ti Ricordi (1976)

Coming from southern Italy, Atlantide were a family band made by four brothers, based in Rottweil (Germany) since 1973. In that country they supported such major bands like Message, Atlantis, Scorpions, gaining a good live experience and press reviews.

For mysterious reasons their self-produced album, only released in Germany in 1976, is completely sung in italian, and very different from the typical production of the time, being a hard-rock album with very small prog influences and based on the good fuzz guitar playing of Mimmo Sanseverino. Italian listeners will find the singer's strong dialect accent a bit disturbing, but the record is very well played and includes six long tracks varying in length from 5 minutes to the 11:15 of the long La luna.

This group has nothing to do with another band called Atlantide from France, that released an eponymous LP in 1976 on Crypto. Italian Prog

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice trousers.

PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN said...

Hi, nice blog indeed but this link is dead. Could you please repost it ?

Anonymous said...

Riverman206 says: Probably the best(together with De De Lind)Italy Prog & Hard Rock Album ever! Fantastic guitar works and good singing too. It really very hard to find now..so:

http://rapidshare.com/files/119596408/Atlantide_1976__-_Francesco_Ti_Ricordi.rar.html

Enjoy and have fun with this masterpiece!!

PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN said...

Grazie mille, muchas gracias, merci beaucoup, thanks a lot ...