mario panseri "adolescenza" LP
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MARIO PANSERI- Adolescenza- Original 1973 Italian pressing on the RCA blue label, of Mario panseri’s most progressive album. Cover has considerable ringwear but only in the back. Grades VG+. The vinyl is top! Grades VG++; plays mostly EX sometimes light background noise
based on Alberto Moravia’s book “agostino”; a rare find!;
Mario Panseri was an Italian composer and musician born in Rome in 1945. His first self-titled album was released on RCA in 1970 and there was a single as well. In 1973 came the album that lands Panseri on this website, a suite of music crossing into the progressive realm inspired by a novel called Agostino by writer Alberto Moravia. The critically acclaimed album Adolescenza is a moving piece of music in the soft-prog field, music that will appeal to fans of the beautiful side of RPI rather than the difficult side. It has a flowing soundtrack feel to it and is notable for featuring the contribution of his friend, the wonderful Enzo Capuano who is also on this site. In 1975 Panseri would return the favor by playing keyboards on Enzo's superb Storia Mai Scritta album.
About his old friend, Capuano had this to say: "Mario was a true musician, with a solid background, as there were all too few among the singer-songwriters of that time. Most of them, including myself, were self-taught, little more than strummers, with very little formal training.... On the other hand, he had a diploma, was an excellent keyboardist, arranger, and coach at the Genoa Opera House. He was someone who experienced music and life in the same, highly sensitive way, somehow prone to depression, which led him to compose pieces full of sadness and loneliness, but also of unmatched beauty. Adolescenza is one of my favourite albums of all time, because it told a story - a movie called adolescence. Even its cover reminds you of a movie poster. While listening to it you could feel that sense of bewilderment you experience in the presence of sensations whose origin is unknown, when you are completely at the mercy of an effect without understanding its cause, when you are happy about a trifle, and the slightest thing scares you...."
-Enzo Capuano, ProgArchives interview March 2009
A gifted songwriter, Panseri participated in the Tenco contest for musicians several years in the mid 1970s. In 1978 he delivered another, more commercially oriented album, called Sulla spiaggia d'inverno. He continued composing and playing in the following decades but to my knowledge did not release recordings again. Sadly, Mario passed away in 1995 but he leaves RPI fans with another good gem to track down. Adolescenza has been reissued as a high quality gatefold Japanese mini-lp sleeve cd.
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