Artist

I BOOM

Alan (bass, vocals)
Salvatore Deni (guitar)
Marcello Saccucci (keyboards, vocals)
Bracco (drums)

Not a real prog band, I Boom were a 60's beat band who released their only album as late as 1973.
The sound is beat inspired and like similar bands (Il Mucchio, I Raminghi) is closer to the sixties's sound than to prog atmospheres, but it's worth listening, if you can have it taped!
The opening Luce e vita, Improvvisamente notte and the long and more complex Il padre sono io with an instrumental keyboard part reminding of some 70's bands are the best moments of an album that would at least deserve a CD reissue.

This group may have derived from Boom 67, a quartet from Rome whose singer was Vittorio Lombardi, which played often at the Piper Club opening for foreign acts like Spencer Davis Group and Small Faces. They also played at the Italian Pop Festival held in april 1971 at the Kilt Club in Rome.

An ultrarare and expensive album that has never been reissued in any form. No counterfeits exist.

Some of the album tracks are included, with the same musical background, on the album Rosa (Smash SM-906) by Patrizio Sandrelli, issued by their same label in 1975 and on two of his singles from 1976.
The songs on the Sandrelli LP which had already appeared on the Boom album are Un breve amore and Notte giorno vita morte (originally entitled La soffitta and Luce e vita on the Boom LP), while the two songs issued on single are L'oro del tuo grembo (Smash SM-6008, B-side of Piccola donna addio, entitled Realtà in the Boom version) and Senza di lei (Smash SM-6009, B-side of A letto senza cena, the only one among these tracks to keep its original title).

Keyboardist Saccucci released in 1981 under the name Marcello an album for New Record entitled L'amante, preceded by the single Foggy eyes/I'll sing for you issued under the name Marcello Ucci.