Sonances / Sonanze & Otherworks (Digitally Remastered at Abbey Road Studios, London 2000)

"The need to write on the cover of this album does not mean a need to “explain it”, also because it would be both a utopian and senseless task, but rather to help individuate its difficult collocation and clarify its origin and aspirations. The first concrete contact, I believe, is in the title, “Sonanze”, indicative, in my opinion, of a work that finds itself at the crossroads of two musical structures: one (ASSONANCE, harmony, tonality) usually dictated by sensibility; the other (DISSONANCE, atonality, destructive force of the traditional classical structures), very useful “in its time”. I say in its time because I think that so-called “modern” music has undergone an aging process and Sonances of nonsense and that now that it has become “traditional”, it challenges the too great atonality, the too many aesthetic and discriminatory problems for a subject that should be liberally taken and manipulated to maximize the intensity of the creative process. Beyond technicality, the only real obstacle to the relationship is between listener and author."

Unique cosmic electronics meets contemporary classical work, produced by Ohr / Kosmische Musik boss Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser. An imaginative and creative album in every way except that the original release is totally devoid of track titles. This makes for a weird listing here on Discogs! The CD reissue retitled these as "Movements".

Companies，etc.

Produced For – Cosmic Couriers

Manufactured By – EMI Italiana S.p.A.

Distributed By – EMI Italiana S.p.A.

Printed By – Graphyche Magica 2000

Credits

Clarinet – Luciano Tessari

Composed By, Directed By, Producer [Produced By], Liner Notes – Roberto Cacciapaglia

Horns – Alfredo Arcobelli, Giuseppe Ferreri, Giuseppe Merli

Oboe – Mario Arcari

Other [Collaboration] – Fulvio Talamucci, Renato Granata, Verdiana Maggiorelli

Photography By [Photographs] – A. Molaschi*, M. Bruschi

Piano – Luciano Bianco

Piano, Guitar, Harpsichord, Organ, Vibraphone, Synthesizer [VCS 3, Synthi A, Moog] – Roberto Cacciapaglia

Strings – Elsa Parravicini, Franco Rossi (2), Gianni Berlindis*, Giuseppe Cantoni, Marco Ravasio

Timpani [Symphonic Tympany] – Walter Morelli

Trombone [Trombones] – Bruno Ferrari (2), Giuseppe Mauri

Vocals [Vocalists] – Elfriede Demetz, Francesco Maria Minghinelli

Notes

Milan 1972 - Cologne 1974

Recorded in Milan

Quadraphonic Mix in Cologne

On cover:

Quadro Stereo Mono

Distrib. [EMI logo] made in Italy

On Side B label:

A Cosmic Couriers Production / Ohr Music

Quadro - Stereo - SQ

Ⓟ 1975

Fabbricato e distribuito dalla EMI Italiana S.p.A. ['distribuito' is misspelt 'distriduito']

- Made in Italy -

[Side A = 17:02, Side B = 16:02]

Textured cover with printed inner sleeve.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Rights Society (Boxed): S.I.A.E.

Other (Diritti Riservati): D.R.

Matrix / Runout (Side B label): P. 025465

Matrix / Runout (Also on Side B label): P. 025466

Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched): P-025465 - 20-3-75 I

Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched): P-025466 - 20-3-75 I