Africa, by Piero Umiliani

Africa

by Piero Umiliani

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1.	Africa To-Day 04:45	buy track
2.	Savana 02:42	buy track
3.	Green Dawn 02:22	buy track
4.	Rhythmical Stress 02:57	buy track
5.	Drums Choral 03:50	buy track
6.	Lonely Village 01:54	buy track
7.	Mysterious 01:33	buy track
8.	Echos 02:27	buy track
9.	Sortilege 03:52	buy track
10.	African Suspense 03:22	buy track
11.	Sadness 03:23	buy track
12.	Rite 01:37	buy track
13.	Folk Tune 02:18	buy track
14.	Drums Suspence 02:47	buy track

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PIERO UMILIANI LEGACY - TAKEN FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES

Piero Umiliani’s Africa was released in January 1972, a years-ahead record that includes the prog-tinged black rhythm of “Africa To-Day”, the ‘fourth world’ inspiration coming from Jon Hassell’s “Green Dawn”, the ‘exotic’ references in Martin Denny’s style (“Lonely Village”, “Echos”), the electronic new wave (hearing is believing!) of “Sortilège”, the folk music (“Rite”, “Folk-Tune”). An incredible album summarizes sounds and styles that will make the fortune of much more celebrated and popular musicians and artists.

AFRICA (1972)
In 1972 Piero Umiliani was above all the man of a thousand soundtracks and the first Italian jazz experiments; from his later career we’ll soon learn that wasn’t enough for him, showing just a tiny part of a more complex picture. Closed within the walls of his Sound Work Shop Studio, the Maestro was weaving much more complicated and satisfying plots, incorporating dozens of influences from a life spent experimenting and discovering new sounds.
Among the most fascinating ones, those who came from a continent like Africa, as much fabled as actually little known, but enchanting to the point that Umiliani dedicated to it the entire Africa - which is paired with its twin-record Continente Nero - and released it as M. Zalla, pseudonym used when it came to tidying up uncompromising and avant-garde music textures, as will later happen with masterpieces
such as Suspense, Problemi D’Oggi or Mondo Inquieto.
Always keep in mind when this album had been released, in January 1972, before approaching its content: here the prog-tinged black rhythm of Africa To-Day, the ‘fourth world’ inspiration coming from Jon Hassell’s Green Dawn, the ‘exotic’ references in Martin Denny’s style (Lonely Village, Echos), the electronic new wave (hearing is believing!) of Sortilège, the folk music (Rite, Folk-Tune). Many years in advance, in Africa Piero Umiliani summarizes sounds and styles that will make the fortune of much more celebrated and popular musicians and artists.

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released October 8, 2021

Music by M. Zalla (Piero Umiliani)
Arrangements and Orchestra directed by Piero Umiliani
Sound by Sound Workshop
Sound Engineer: Claudio Budassi
Sound Recorder: Francesco Melloni

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