Giorgio Piazza, nicknamed “Fico”, was one of the founder members
of Premiata Forneria Marconi. The bassist left the band in 1973,
replaced by Patrick Djivas, and went under the radar for a very long
time... It wasn’t until 2012 that he came back on stage with a new
project called Per Fare Musica (the name means “to play music”,
but in short it’s P.F.M.) gathering around him some talented young
musicians to reinterpret and perform Premiata Forneria Marconi’s
early repertoire. After many concerts around Italy, in 2019 they
recorded live in studio their versions of the pieces taken from
Storia di un minuto and Per un amico with a line up
featuring Giorgio Fico Piazza (bass), Eric Zanoni (guitars, vocals),
Riccardo Campagno (keyboards, vocals), Giuseppe Perna (keyboards,
vocals), Marco Fabbri (drums) plus the special guests Marco Colombo
(lead guitar on two tracks) and Annie Barbazza (lead vocals on two
tracks). The album, entitled Autumn Shades, was produced by
Max Marchini for Maniticore Productions Ltd. and released by the
independent label Ma.Ra.Cash Records with a beautiful art cover by
Lino Budano.
Although the track list doesn’t follow the same order of the
original albums, all the pieces are reinterpreted with philological
pragmatism, great musicianship and freshness. The fruit of the
recording sessions is a pleasant immersion in the atmospheres of the
past with updated arrangements that respect the spirit of classics
such as “Impressioni di Settembre”, “Il banchetto” or “E’
festa”. The sound quality is excellent and I think that this album
could be a good starting point. In fact, there’s no new original
material on it and I hope that in the future this project will bring
us new pieces and creativity, not only perfectly crafted exercises of
style. All in all, Il Tempio delle Clessidre started performing the
old repertoire of Museo Rosenbach with the original vocalist of the
band and ended up releasing some wonderful albums of their own
original music... Well, I hope that Giorgio Piazza and his new
bandmates will follow their path!
You can listen to the complete album HERE
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