Artist
ALBERGO INTERGALATTICO SPAZIALE
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Terra Di Benedetto (vocals)
Mino Di Martino (keyboards)
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After the huge success of his previous band I Giganti in the 60's, Giacomo "Mino" Di Martino totally dedicated to exploring avantgarde music, forming this duo with wife Edda "Terra" Di Benedetto after a short spell with a group called Telaio Magnetico. Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale was the name of a private club in Rome owned by them.
Their only album, privately released in 1978 but
recorded a couple of years before, contains
keyboard music in a similar vein as many german cosmic music LP's or some of Franco
Battiato's experiments, with the organ as main instrument, only
accompanied in some parts by Terra's voice.
The album was intended as an anti-nuclear message. The result is a difficult LP,
that can be interesting for those into Battiato's
early works. The 37-minutes long album is enriched, in the recent CD and vinyl
reissues,
by the dreamy bonus track Hymalaya, more accessible than most of the LP.
After the album Di Martino and Terra have followed their experimental path with many concerts until the 80's, and Mino also released in the mid 90's a theatrical piece, Le campane del gloria, based on film director Pier Paolo Pasolini's poetry with help from former Stormy Six keyboard/violin/guitar player Tommaso Leddi.
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(the trolley icon
lets you order the CD from BTF website)
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An ultrarare album only privately issued in a handful of copies, Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale was housed in a single sleeve containing an inner cover, a foldout insert and a poster, all faithfully reproduced in the recent nice Psych-Out reissue (limited to 300 copies) with an extra track included.
No foreign issues exist.
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| Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale - front cover (from reissue) |
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Find more information on Mino Di Martino on his own website http://aloysius.itimpresa.mi.it/dimartino/index.html