Wednesday, June 07, 2006


Guglielmo Papararo & Vittorio Montis "April Orchestra presente RCA sound vol.16" April Orchestra/RCA, 1977

This is both an experimental and atmospheric LP from the second April Orchestra serie, the RCA related one. The main instrument on this record is the acoustic guitar with brass and woodwind instruments, percussions and a really impressive chorus, not your common "la la la" wordless vocals.
Once again, this LP contains another favorite of mine (in the Library Music category at least), this time it is this little gem named "Jonosfera".

I'm quite sure that the RCA serie was entirely devoted to italian artists, the likes of Ennio Morricone (2 volumes in this serie and various contributions to some others), Bruno Nicolai or Puccio Roelens, to name a few.


See you soon !


The zip file contains high resolution cover scans and tracks encoded at 256 kbps.

April Orchestra RCA sound vol.16


10 Comments:

Blogger archigram said...

Another amazing album! How do you do it??

4:08 AM  
Blogger whoops said...

I'll try to give a three part explanation :
- First, i'm located in Europe.
- Second, i'm really curious about many records in many genres.
- Third, i'm not obsessed with Funk.

no, frankly i don't know. I only love digging through crates of forgotten (or not so forgotten) records, like many others.

4:59 AM  
Blogger archigram said...

Well, each and every one of your posts is fantastic and very classy. Thanks!

5:58 AM  
Anonymous brunai nicolo said...

Hi, thanx for your beautiful posts. Do you happen to know which year April Orchestra vol. 2 by Bruno Nicolai (RCA series) was released?

2:38 PM  
Blogger whoops said...

Hi, Bruno Nicolai's April Orchestra was released in 1976.

8:45 PM  
Anonymous audiofritz said...

Fabulous album - thanks for sharing this gem. I'm a big fan of wordless siren-like vocals. Do you have any suggestions for other rips I should check out? Again thanks, and keep up the great work!

12:58 AM  
Blogger whoops said...

audiofritz, if you like wordless female vocals you can't be wrong with Edda dell'Orso or Barbara Moore but i'm quite sure that you already know that. Edda Dell'Orso's tracks are quite easy to find on CD but this is definitely not the case with Barbara Moore.
There is also an excellent Telemusic release by Gabriel Yared & Alan Feanch named "Vocals", a incomplete rip of this LP has been circulated on Soulseek for several months now.

3:14 AM  
Anonymous audiofritz said...

Hi Whoops, yes I went thorugh an Edda phase collecting whatever I could find not so long ago, and I enjoy both her 'spacey' and bossa styles. Barbara Moore is indeed much harder to find, and I had not heard the Yared & Feanch release, so I'll look out for that one - Thanks!

3:42 AM  
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