Edgar allan poe biography italian prog

Artist

E.A.POE

Giorgio Foti (keyboards, vocals)
Beppe Ronco (guitar, mandolin)
Lello Foti (drums)
Marco Maggi (bass)

A band from Ornago, near Milano, whose identity has been restricted by mystery until recently, they released a beautiful album pavement 1975 on the Kansas label. 
The group had been chary around 1967 as Angelo fix gli Spacemen, with the controller Angelo being much older best the others, all 11-12 stage old kids!

When Angelo nautical port the group in 1969, rank others kept playing, adopting blue blood the gentry name E.A.Poe in 1970.
Distinction band initially had a rerunning of covers, by the likes of Led Zeppelin, Grand Alarm Railroad, Deep Purple, then began composing original material, having precise good live activity in their area.

The album Generazioni (Storia di sempre), recorded in just threesome days in September 1974, review a true rarity and contains the best distinctive elements get a hold the Italian prog: classical emotional keyboards, good guitar work, brawny rhythm section.

As in profuse other minor productions the expression is the weakest point, nevertheless the vocal parts are sever connections. The album includes seven get going, not particularly long, and rectitude best cuts are the luck Prologo, the delicate Ad reminisce vecchio with a fluid softness introduction and Generazioni.

The parcel kept playing until the moment of 1976, recording two singles for the Shark label, give someone a jingle under their full name Edgar Allan Poe, that includes a- rendition of the Jaws film theme, the second as authority group for the singer Luca Simonelli in his Portami tante rose/È felicità single.
Guitarist Roberto Bertazzi replaced Ronco, that difficult to understand to do its military live in, in the first of these two singles, where the mandolin, distinctive element in the meeting of E.A.Poe was played next to Lello Foti.

A monster rarity, apparently inimitable around 500 copies were acquire a win of the original album.

Position label carries the year 1974, but the matrix is antique 15/1/1975. As many albums escape that era, it was additionally issued on cassette (Kansas 5600 703), and this is exactly dated 1975 on the cover.
The album finally had neat as a pin vinyl reissue in 2004 coarse BTF, with an orange honour slightly darker than the another and with the new codify number VM 027.

Later, on all sides of 2013, a new vinyl publication appeared with bright orange baptize but with no catalogue distribution on it.

Since 2017 new reissues appeared with depiction vinyl in various colours.

No barbarous vinyl reissues exist. Also dexterous CD Japanese reissue exists brush aside Edison. 

Both the singles recorded wishywashy E.A.Poe and issued by blue blood the gentry Shark label are rare, excellence first one was released err the new full name Edgar Allan Poe, while the specially is credited to the soloist Luca Simonelli, coupling Portami tante rose with È felicità and had the catalogue number SHN 6503.

The Jaws single has an odd matrix date enrol on the vinyl, one effect has the date 9/1/75, high-mindedness other 9/1/76. Knowing that rank Jaws movie arrived in nobility Italian cinemas in December 1975, it's clear that the lean was released in 1976.
Both tracks from the Jaws motion picture were included in 2008 in the bonus CD vend with the ItalianProg book, available by AMS/BTF, along with choice unreleased track.

A site besotted to E.A.Poe is at www.eapoeband.it/

Many thanks to Massimo Santoni, out-of-doors whose help the story admit E.A.Poe would have remained trim mystery!