Banco (Banco del Mutuo Soccorso album)
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| Released | 1975 | |||
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| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 47:24 | |||
| Label | Manticore | |||
| Producer | Vittorio Nocenzi | |||
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Banco is a 1975 album by Italian progressive rock band Banco del Mutuo Soccorso (at that time known simply as Banco). The album was originally released on the Manticore Records label launched by Emerson, Lake & Palmer with whom the band shared a firm stylistic similarity.
Background
Around 1975 the band attempted to make inroads outside their native Italy and released this English sung album on Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Manticore Records label. The album was largely a compilation, consisting of re-recordings of songs from their first three albums, with the exception of one track. The material from the second of the band's albums, Darwin! (1972) was completely omitted, however, while the only original track, with Italian lyrics, was "L'albero del pane." All the songs were re-recorded specially, with new arrangements, with the exception of the concluding piece "Traccia II", which was identical to the original recording.
The songs were translated into English by the American musician Marva Jan Marro. To promote the album, the band toured the US and UK with limited success.[2]
CD re-release
In 2010 a new, re-mastered, edition of the album marked its British debut on CD and continued a comprehensive series of releases of the Manticore catalogue.[3] The music was remastered by Ben Wiseman at The Audio Archiving Company.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Chorale (Traccia's Theme)" | 2:30 |
| 2. | "L'albero del pane (The Bread Tree)" | 4:45 |
| 3. | "Metamorphosis" | 14:45 |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Outside" | 7:42 |
| 2. | "Leave Me Alone" | 5:20 |
| 3. | "Nothing's the Same" | 9:58 |
| 4. | "Traccia II" | 2:24 |
Personnel
Musicians
- Pierluigi Calderoni - drums and percussion
- Vittorio Nocenzi - organ, synthesizers, electronic strings
- Renato D'Angelo - bass guitar, acoustic guitar
- Rodolfo Maltese - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, trumpet, backing vocals
- Gianni Nocenzi - grand piano, clarinet and synthesizer
- Francesco Di Giacomo - lead vocals
Technical
Engineers: Martin Rushent and Andy Hendricksen
Total time: approx. 47 minutes 51 seconds. Mixed at Advision and Air Studios, London.
References
- ^ Banco del Mutuo Soccorso – Review at AllMusic
- ^ "BANCO DEL MUTUO SOCCORSO". Progarchives.com.
- ^ "Banco".
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