Osanna – Palepoli

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Tracklist

Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar, Steel Guitar, Organ, Vocals – Danilo Rustici
Arranged By, Producer, Written-By – Osanna
Baritone Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone [Electric], Alto Saxophone [Electric Contralto], Flute, Vocals – Elio D'Anna
Bass, Guitar – Lello Brandi
Drums, Percussion, Vibraphone, Bells, Vocals – Massimo Guarino
Engineer – Plinio Chiesa
Graphics – Carlo De Simone, Laura Mancini (3)
Liner Notes – Vincenzo Buonassisi
Photography By – Gianni Cesarini, Umberto Telesco
Twelve-String Guitar, Mellotron, Synthesizer – Lino Vairetti

First pressings come with glossy laminated gatefold cover, plus lyrics inner.

	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	Palepoli (LP, Gatefold)	Fonit Cetra	LPX19	Italy	1972
	Palepoli (Cassette, Album)	Fonit Cetra, Fonit Cetra	MC 188, MC. 188	Italy	1973
New Submission	Palepoli (LP, Test Pressing, Gatefold)	Fonit	LPX 19	Italy	1973
Recently Edited	Palepoli (8-Track Cartridge, Album)	Fonit Cetra	none	Italy	1973
	Palepoli (LP, Album, Repress, Gatefold)	Fonit	LPX 19	Italy	1974

progfan97402 Mar 9, 2011
Edited 10 years ago
Since 1993, Palepoli has became one of my all-time favorite Italian prog albums. If it's now 2011 and I enjoy it just as much as I did in '93, it really deserves to be on my top list. The album is not an easy listen but I really dig the aggressive guitar passages, with great Jethro Tull-like flutes from Elio D'Anna, and those mellow, trippy Mellotron passages, Mellotron provided by vocalist Lino Vairetti. The album contains three extended cuts that play together as a whole. The Japanese CD reissue on Archangelo's European Rock Collection includes a bonus cut that plays the opening part of "Oro Caldo" but includes themes from Milano Calibro 9 in reverse. I also own the original LP on Fonit that does not include this. If you don't mind your prog on the hard side, this is a great album to get.