Premiata Forneria Marconi

Premiata Forneria Marconi (commonly called PFM ) is a group Italian Rock (progressive Rock) whose beginnings go up with 1972 with the album Storia di a minuto . One of the leaders of the progressive movement of the years '70, PFM is also Italian the rock'n'roll group which was greatest success abroad, in particular in England, in the United States, in Japan and Canada.

At the beginning of the progressive rock'n'roll, the Italy knew to just like invent an undercurrent which is clean for him, were to it the Scène Canterbury in England, the Zeuhl in France or the Krautrock in Germany. The major groups of this movement are: Locanda Delle Fate, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, the Elm, New Trolls, Metamorphosi, It Balletto di Bronzo…

PFM is registered directly in this artistic current, but while adding to it of the various influences, in particular of certain English progressive groups. In this respect, one said of their music that it took as a starting point the King Crimson beginnings or by Genesis, but PFM has as of the whole beginnings quickly transcended its influences and developed its own style. A certain Mediterranean sensitivity distinguishes PFM from the majority of the progressive groups of the time.

The original formation is made up of Free Mussida (guitar and song), Franz di Cioccio (battery and song), Flavio Premoli (keyboards and song), Mauro Pagani (violin, flute and song), and Giorgio Piazza (low). In 1974, Piazza will yield its place to Patrick Djivas, ex-member of the formation of jazz-rock'n'roll Area . In 1975, Bernardo Lanzetti, Fragile ex-member of Acqua , joint with the formation as singer soloist, the group being in the search of a singer able to sing as well in English as in Italian. Tired voyages, Pagani leaves the group after Chocolate Kings , and will be replaced, the time of an album ( Jet Lag ), by Gregory Bloch. Then, Lucio Fabbri will become the violonist appointed of PFM on some albums and scene. Lanzetti will leave for its part after " Passpartu" , album from which the music of the formation will take a more popular turn.

The music of PFM can be described like very elaborate and sophisticated, lyric, delicate, elegant, with very required arrangements and often unforeseeable reversals, especially within the albums of the beginning. If the musicians of PFM show as of the whole beginnings a great technical control their instruments, they are also dissociated by the quality of their compositions, rates/rhythms and melodies sought, and lyric elements very successful. Traditional influences, jazz and rock'n'roll mix in an original, perfectly coherent whole and very successful, which will be the brand name of PFM within the progressive movement. The majority of the texts are sung in Italian, but a certain number of albums of the years '70 make exception and are sung in English.

Generally, the amateurs of PFM get along on the fact that the best albums of the formation are those of the beginning, until Chocolate Kings in 1975. Storia di a minuto , Per a amico , Photographs off ghosts , insulated It di Niente , The world became the world , Cook and Chocolate Kings , and rightly, is indeed regarded as the traditional ones of the progressive repertory. Made note, the albums Photographs off Ghosts and The world became the world are adaptations in English language, with more or less important alternatives compared to the original albums, of the albums Per Amico and insulated It di niente .

The formation moreover was pointed out by its services " live" energetic and of very high level, where virtuosity and improvisations are invariably with go. In this respect, the long instrumental part " Alta loma 5 till 9" , on the album live " Cook" , illustrates very well the tops which PFM in spectacle can reach.

The group separated after the publication from Miss Baker in 1987, but was reformed towards the end of the year '90. Ulisse is the first album born of the meeting. A certain number of albums live , generally very successful in addition, will appear thereafter: www.pfmpfm.it (it best) ; Live in Japan , and finally Piazza del Campo , on which Pagani joined the group the time of a spectacle. Serendipity , album studio plus rock'n'roll which does not achieve the unanimity within the amateurs of the group, and finally Dracula , a rock opera and perhaps best the opus of PFM since Chocolate Kings and Jet Lag , supplement the production of the group until 2005.

At the end of November 2006 left Stati di Immaginazione , a unit CD + DVD which contains 8 instrumental small film parts inspired.

Discography

Albums studio

1972 : Storia Di Minuto
1972: Per Amico
1973: Photographs Off Ghosts
1974: insulated It di niente
1974: The World Became the World
1975 : Chocolate Kings
1977: Jet Lag
1978: Passpartù
1980 : Suonare Suonare
1981 : As Ti Goes in Rivetted went Città
1984: PFM? PFM!
1987 : Miss Baker
1997: Ulisse
2000 : Serendipity
2005 : Dracula
2006 : Stati di Immaginazione (CD+DVD)

Albums live

1974 : Live in the U.S.A. (a.k.a. Cook )
1980: Performance
1989: Fabrizio de Andre E PFM in concerto (2 CD set)
1996: 10 ass live 1971-81 (4 CD set)
1996: Absolutely Live 1971-1978 (4 CD set - same ace above except 4th different CD
1996: The Best Off Absolutely Live 1971-1978
1998: has Celebration Live
1998: www.pfmpfm.it (it best) (2 CD set)
2002: Live In Japan (2 CD set)
2002: Live In Japan 2002 (Tokyo) (2 CD set)
2004: PFM + Pagani - Piazza del Campo (2 CD set)

Compilations

1976 - Premium impressioni
1976 - The award-winning Marconi/Bakery
1977 - Antologia
1988 - the album di… PFM
1993 - I grown LED rock'n'roll
2000 - Parts from Manticore
2001: Golden delicious Collection
2002 - Gli ass settanta

Bootlegs

Sore Club 2000 Recorded live in Modena, 1972
Impressioni… Vent' Ass Dopo Double CD recorded live in Modena, 1972
London 1975 CD Recorded live in London, 19974/75
Live in Concert BBC live concert, 1974/75 -
Blowing from the Mediterranean Double CD recorded live in Paris, 1975
Chocolate Holes Furnace in the Recorded live in Ravenna, 1976
Anytime, Anywhere Recorded live in Osaka, November 25,1975
live Celebration Recorded in Tokyo, November 29,1975
The Far East Experiment Recorded live in Osaka, November 25,1975 and At BBC, 1975

Albums solo

1978 : Mauro Pagani - “ Mauro Pagani”
1979: Pagani/Stratos/Tofani - Rock' N roll exhibition
1979: Bernardo Lanzetti - K.O.
1979 : Bernardo Lanzetti - Bernardo Lanzetti
1980: Lucio Fabbri - Amarena
1981: Mauro Pagani - Sogno di una notte of estate
1981: Bernardo Lanzetti - Gente nervosa
1982: Bernardo Lanzetti - Bernardo Lanzetti
1983: Franz di Cioccio & Free Mussida - Attila, flagello di Dio (soundtrack)
1983: Flavio Premoli - Flavio Premoli
1991: Mauro Pagani - Passed the bellezza
1991: Free Mussida - Racconti beyond tenda rossa
1992: Franz di Cioccio - Lupus in confabulated
1995: Free Mussida - Accordo
1996: Flavio Premoli - Variazioni
1997: Bernardo Lanzetti - Cover live
1997: Mauo Pagani - Nirvana (soundtrack)
1998: Bernardo Lanzetti - I sing the voice impossible
2003: Mauro Pagani - Domani
2004: Mauro Pagani - Creuza of my

Vidéos/DVD

2002 : Live In Japan 2002 (DVD)
2004: PFM + Pagani - Piazza del Campo (DVD)
2006: Stati di Immaginazione (CD+DVD)

External bonds

the official site of PFM the site exists in Italian or English.
Biography and criticisms of the albums of the group (in English and by Net surfers) on www.progarchives.com, a site of reference of the progressive rock'n'roll

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