MINT LE STELLA DI MARIO SHIFANO Hard Psych Prog LSD

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FLIPPED OUT COLLECTIBLE FROM THE UNDERGROUND         

 Here we are most definitely flying higher, a lot higher, reaching for the stars!                  

       Le Stella Di Mario Shifano

             "Dedicato A..."

                                           Europe AK - 1008

Vanished triple thick and weight heavy 2ndpress of amazingly rare and collectible 1970 heavy progressive legend.... this is a very thick silver & pink gatefold cover with photo pages/info inside, hard to telll exactly what as it is:

      ***STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP and entirely MINT ...

Mario Schifano himself All the Hasphash and Parson Sound and Amon Duul and Velvets) comparisons dissolve as a raging intoxication of otherworldly anti-rhythm globalises your senses and mobilises your troops. You attempt to tear off your headphones but you ain’t wearing any.

LE STELLE DI MARIO SCHIFANO are (nowadays) a little known (one-shot) band in the world of the italian progressive scene. Their name derives from the italian pop artist (painter) Mario Schifano who, during the second half of the sixties was fascinated by multimedia and abstract artistic expressions. In a similar vein to what VELVET UNDERGROUND made at that time with Andy Warhol.

"Dedicato a..." is probably among the most wanted, rare and expensive italian vynil album of any time. It was released in 1967. this means it's the first example of prog in Italy. And that's the inrteresting thing. Despite the official vulgata describes it as the product of a beat band, it is clearly more, very far from a beat work. Probably one of the less commercial outputs in all the italian prog experience. The band itself, after a brief but intense success split up. The album mixes improvvisation, medieval evocations thanks to guitar's arpeggio, acid psychedelia, effects, voices, choruses, quotes, blues and even tv jingles.

A musical anarchic orgy -- Le Stelle di Mario Schifano are officially referred as a beat band of the late sixties. They are rather to be remembered as the very first prog band from italy.
Their strange mix between avantguard and psychedelic sounds makes them, until nowadays, one of the most intriguing examples of all the italian experience..

Bass player Crescentini, from Venice, had briefly played before in the last incarnation of New Dada, a very popular garage-beat group.
Housed in an incredible gatefold cover, painted by Schifano himself, the album contains a side-long improvised track on side 1, with the long title of "Le ultime parole di Brandimarte, dall'Orlando Furioso, ospite Peter Hartman e fine (da ascoltare con TV accesa senza volume)", a surreal title just like the track itself. Closer to avantgarde or contemporary music performances than to rock, the stunning track gives a good idea of what the group's music and live concerts were about. Side 2 is more conventional, with five short tracks with psych influences.

It starts with the guys talking in the studio, then a girl begins what sounds like a Medieval melody, there is chaos until around 6-7 minutes in when a cool psychedelic guitar enters the frame and that's when the band seems to find some kind of path for the next 10 minutes or so.
Side two in contrast has five short and more accesible songs, having said that they don't really sound like anything else around in Italy at that time.
They were obviously not aiming at the 'hits' charts...
People that witnessed their performance at the mythical "Piper Club" in Rome were certainly left with their mouths open.

PSYCHEDELIC MIND JOURNEY ~ LE STELLA DI MARIO SHIFANO:

Nello Marini - Vocals, Keyboards
Urbano Orlandi - Vocals, Guitar
Giandomenico Crescentini - Vocals, Bass
Sergio Cerra - Drums

CONDITION: Very heavy thick silver and pink gatefold cover is MINT in original factory shrink wrap

The vinyl is all glossy clean and MINT

NOTE: because of the weight heavy product, overseas customers, please count this as x 2 discs (Lps) for shipping purposes...maybe then we'll come close to not losing too much when shipping the item out. It is a very weight heavy item.

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record