Premiata Forneria Marconi - Performance (1982)

Artista: Premiata Forneria Marconi

Álbum: Performance
Año: 1982
Género: Progresivo italiano
Duración: 67:06
Nacionalidad: Italia

Lista de Temas:
1. Maestro della Voce
2. Quartiere Otto (QT8) (including "Vai Zivas")
3. Lory
4. Suonare Suonare
5. Si Puo' Fare (including theme from "Impressione di Settembre")
6. Chi Ha Paura della Notte (including Introduzione al Buio)
7. Violin Performance (including Paganini's "Moto Perpetuo")
8. Come Ti Va
9. Il Banchetto
10. Celebration (including "Se.Le.Brescion")

Alineación:
- Walter Calloni / drums
- Jan Patrick Djivas / bass
- Franz Di Cioccio / drums, vocal
- Lucio Fabbri / keyboards, guitar, violin
- Franco Mussida / electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocal

De una catarata de archivos flac y ape que aparecieron en un rigido,surgio una subcarpeta olvidada,nose por que,y al abrirla estaban los registros de discos de Premiata que no circulan en esta calidad por la web. Un verdadero descubrimiento. Y vamos con este disco, el primero de otros tantos que oportunamente aparecerán en el blog. Los amantes de Premiata se van a poner contentos, quizás para complementar aquellos discos supereconocidos que deambulan por todos lados, este trabajo es registrado en vivo en 1981 e inmediatamente sobresale la calidad del registro, excelente por donde se lo mire, y nos muestra a los Premiata en un punto altísimo, maduros, profesionales, y se ve reflejado en particular en los dos últimos tracks.
No creo que haya que reseñar mucho de PFM, sólo destacar que es y fue la banda progresiva más reconocida a nivel mundial de Italia, un país que dió en especial en la década del 70 a muchísimas bandas que hasta le dieron una identidad musical a la península ibérica.
Salieron por el mundo a codearse con la nata del progre, como King Crimson, ELP, Genesis, y los demás dinosaurios, y siempre salieron airosos, mantuvieron su estilo y fueron adorados en esta parte del mundo, conozco a varios amigos que son verdaderos fanáticos de los Premiata. Por algo será.
Y ese algo está diseminado es estos tracks, un público prendísimo, y el desarrollo musical de los tanos que te atrapa desde el primer acorde, y va in crescendo hasta llegar a Celebration, una canción que todo el mundo conoce pero que en esta oportunidad parece reversionarse a si misma y suena descontracturada, relajada.
El resto del disco es para descubrir de a poco, la verdad tener desde hace mucho tiempo estos discos en flac y no haberlos descubierto hasta hace poco no hace más que ratificar los golpes que me da mi amigo el alemán (Alzheimer). Guarda que es muy amigo del Vampiro también.
Hemos publicado la versión doble de "Cook" (Live In USA) pero este disco es más hablado, más tranqui, tiene canciones más digeribles, pero no deja de ser Premiata.
Un adelanto de lo que se viene de estos tanos tan famosos, otro golpe al oído cabezón, en estos registros descubiertos también hay cosas de Polonia, Hungría, Checoslovaquia y demás, en realidad son cientos de discos bajados en los principios del flac y que fueron a parar a una carpeta que se perdió entre tantas distribuidas por varios rígidos, pero que ahora apareció para el beneplácito de muchísima gente que deambula por el blog.

Alberto

Album recorded "live" in Florence on 24th of July 1981, "Performance" was originally released as a double album and now it's available on a single CD. In "Performance" most of the tracks are taken from the albums "Suonare suonare" (1980) and "Come ti va in riva alla città" (1981), but here the songs are dilated and improved if compared to the studio versions. This album is not exactly a "progressive" one, but the members of band seem to enjoy their music and their musicianship is still astounding. Franz Di Cioccio tries to "reinvent" his role in the band, acting as a "frontman", so there's a second drummer in the line up, Walter Calloni. The result is good, the music is full of energy and you can "feel" the interaction between the band and the public. All the musicians have some space to show their skills and sometimes they give a title to their "solos and improvisations" (for instance "Vai Zivas" is the bass solo included in "Quartiere otto", "Lory" is a kind of "guitar intro" to "Suonare suonare", "Violino performance" is the "solo moment" of Lucio Fabbri.).
Interesting the live versions of the only two tracks of the early seventies included in this album: "Il banchetto" here is re-arranged with a curious rock feeling and with a great guitar work (at a certain point, it's like if they would have tried to insert The Knack's "My Sharona" rhythm inside that old masterpiece. the result is weird but not bad at all!), while "Celebration" is dilated to let Franz Di Cioccio interact with the public (the result here is not memorable, though perhaps interesting for the fans)
In the whole a good album, although not an essential one in a prog collection.

Andrea Parentin

A good live, but without adrenalin. I've bought this work in LP. The songs are played without passion, but I've to give 3 stars to "PerForMance" because of string solo by Master Lucio "Violino" Fabbri, and for the excellent version of "Il Banchetto", with guitar solos by Mussida and Fabbri in place of the original sinth performance by Premoli (who left the band some years before). So, this work is not essential, but is even a pretty example of PFM's music in '80ies. Buy it only if you are a great PFM's evaluator.

dodaro

Not exactly Prog album. But if is your problem the 80's music of PFM isn't your music. For me is good music because the power of PMF is exactly all in this album. I have the doubt that in 80's another musical road for PFm and othe Dinosaurs Prog giants was good. And in fact the PFM remain the group more convincing with its 80's songs. Because it is true is great POP. This live present one band at the maximum level of power. But this live don't have the power of "Live in USA" or the two chapter with Fabrizio De André. Not for this songs like "Maestro Della Voce", "Quartiere Otto", "Suonare Suonare", "Si Può Fare" or "Come Ti Va" aren't good. And the Prog is present in "Violino Performance", "Il Banchetto" and "Celebration". Yes, this is only a typical 80's live album from a 70's band. But extremely good.

Elizabeth