Arturo Stalteri - ...E Il Pavone Parlo Alla Luna LP

Label: Soave

Recorded in 1980 but only issued privately in 1987, Arturo Stalteri's ...E Il Pavone Parlo Alla Luna falls among the last artifacts of Italy's great wave of musical minimalism. Like the movement to which it belongs, rigorously resistant to categorizations and definition, this overlooked marvel sculpts a startling singularity. A radical and democratic vision in sound, blending elements of new age, the avant-garde, and prog with Western and Indian classical musics. Highly talented pianist Arturo Stalteri debuted in 1974 with Pierrot Lunaire, one of the most original and innovative groups of the Italian progressive scene. After the dissolution of the band he began an inspirational solo career with the prog opus Andre Sulla Luna (1979); the following year a two-month trip to India left an important impression on him and inspired ...E Il Pavone Parlo Alla Luna, which stands as Stàlteri's true masterwork. A complex and ambitious hybrid, built around organ and piano, with each passage struggling for creative autonomy and dislodging themselves from the whole, yet remaining as accessible as they are challenging, to all those willing to heed the call. Despite its repetitive rhythms and cyclical tones, bound to American minimalism, ...E Il Pavone Parlo Alla Luna's complex relationships and breadth of territory locate it as a distinctly European work, a wondrous late breath, and a seminal entry in Italy's remarkable canon of avant-garde and minimalist music. A rippling oddity, not quite like anything else, reissued here on vinyl for the first time.