Artist

ALBERGO INTERGALATTICO SPAZIALE

Terra Di Benedetto (vocals)
Mino Di Martino (keyboards)

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. Di Benedetto issued in 1982 an interesting single for It (ZBT 7252) with Angeli e dinosauri and Silenzio, il tempo gira, under the name Terra.

A CD compilation of unreleased demos mostly recorded between the late 70's and early 80's was released on Giallo Records in 2009, entitled Angeli di solitudine.

LP
Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale	LDM (CT 001)	1978	laminated single sleeve with inner, insert and poster
	Psych Out (RE 33010)	2001	as above with non laminated cover, 300 copies only - 1 bonus track
CD
Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale	Musicando (MUS 011)	1994	reissue of 1978 album with 1 bonus track
Angeli di solitudine	Giallo (MMM 115)	2009	compilation of unreleased demos recorded between 1974 and 1996

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.

Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale - front cover