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SWITCHED ON NAPLES

by Piero Umiliani

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  • Limited Edition LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Remastered sound
    Limited edition 500 copies

    Includes unlimited streaming of SWITCHED ON NAPLES via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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We're so glad and proud to announce the reissue of a very underrated Piero Umiliani's masterpiece. "SWITCHED ON NAPLES", originally released in 1972 on ‎OmiCron‬ LP 0023, is an outstanding ‪‎Library‬ with pure touch of genius: Maestro Umiliani revisits Naples popular songs in Electronic way by the use of synthesizer. The record is entirely carried out with Electronic sounds.

Soundclip here: bit.ly/3mOQPS0

Tracklist:

A1. MARIA MARI' (Di Capua)
A2. O' MARENARIELLO (O.Gambardella)
A3. MARECHIARE (Tosti)
A4. SANTA LUCIA (elab. Umiliani)
A5. O' PAZZARIELLO (P.Umiliani)
B1. TARANTELLA (elab. Umiliani)
B2. FENESTA CHE LUCIVI (elab. Umiliani)
B3. VIENI SUL MAR (elab. Umiliani)
B4. CICERENELLA (elab. Umiliani)
B5. Fantasia Di Motivi:
VIERNO (Acampora)
O' SOLE MIO (Di Capua)
FUNICULI' FUNICULA' (Denza)



From back sleeve notes:
"..The melodic and contrapuntual lines are produced by the Putney VCS 3 synthesizer; the percussions and the rhytmical accompaniment by the Lowrey small Electronic brain; the bass by the Busillacchio keyboard electronic bass. I started from a research of sounds similar to the vibes produced by traditional instruments (like the barrel-organ of "Maria Marì" or like the sequence of "Vieni Sul Mar", where the Tenor Sax, the Trumpet in its upper mood, the Baritone Sax, the Banjo, the flute ecc. follow one another) to achieve the creation of plurely imaginative sounds, like (1) "vento-che-si-fa-voce" (wind-turning-to-voice), (2) the "electronic caccavella", (3) the "scacciapensieri basso" (jews' harp-bass), (4) the "usignolo accordato" (tuned nightingale). For the first time in the history of Electronic music, these sounds produced by the synthesizer lose their science fiction appearence to aquire a fully Italian flavour, where the folkloristic component often joints the "grimace", the "character" and the unconventional wit typical of Neapolitans."
PIERO UMILIANI

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released September 15, 2016

Arrangement, programming and execution: Piero Umiliani
Mixing: Claudio Budassi
Mastering: Francesco Melloni
Sound: Sound Work-Shop studios, Roma.
Cover: "Marina Grande A Capri" by Carmelina Di Capri

License courtesy of LIUTO ED. MUSICALI & Umiliani's Family

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Italian record label and music publisher founded in 2013 and based in Rome, Italy. Sonor Music Editions specializes in rare and obscure sounds from the Italian golden age of production music and soundtracks, that spans from the 1960s to the 1980s, and with a nod to contemporary emerging artists following in those footsteps. ... more

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