Juri Camisasca

Roberto "Juri" Camisasca, from near Milan, despite a very limited discography can be considered a cult figure among the progressive music followers.
His La finestra dentro, issued in 1974 by Bla Bla, is one of the best albums on that label, and strongly influenced by his collaboration with Franco Battiato, who signed Juri to the label and produced the LP, also playing the VCS3 synth on it.

Though not musically as complex as Battiato's early works, La finestra dentro can be compared with Alan Sorrenti's first album in the use of voice as an instrument, with sparse musical accompaniment on some tracks. The overall result is much more intense than Sorrenti's Aria, with no weak parts, and a very regarding listen.
Many of Battiato's backing musicians (Gianfranco D'Adda, Gianni Mocchetti, Pino Massara, Lino "Capra" Vaccina) are featured on the 7-tracks album, that strongly deserves a CD reissue.

After two singles in 1975, both featuring an album track and an unreleased one, Camisasca was briefly involved in Telaio Magnetico, sort of avantgarde supergroup that also featured among others Franco Battiato, Mino Di Martino from I Giganti and his wife Terra Di Benedetto (both later in Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale).
This group only made a tour in the summer of that year, before disbanding.

Camisasca then entered a Benedictine convent, where he stayed for 11 years, until the late 80's when he returned to the music biz with a new album called Te Deum, based on reworkings of Gregorian chants. Later works have been Il carmelo di Echt in 1991 and Arcano enigma in 1999, and he's been very active as composer working with such artists like PFM, Battiato, Alice and Giuni Russo.

LP
La finestra dentro	Bla Bla (BBXL 10005)	1974	single cover with inner
Te Deum	EMI/L'Ottava (64 7915291)	1988	single cover with inner
Il carmelo di Echt	EMI (66 7972021)	1991
CD
La finestra dentro	Artis (ARCD 028)	1991	reissue of 1974 album - now deleted
Il carmelo di Echt	EMI (090 797202-2)	1991
Arcano enigma	Mercury (546 082-2)	1999
VARIOUS ARTISTS COMPILATION ALBUMS
La convenzione (with La musica muore, Himalaya, Il regno dell'Eden 1. e 2. parte, Galantuomo)	D'Autore/Azzurra Music (DA 1008)	2002	CD compilation dedicated to Bla Bla, also includes tracks by Franco Battiato and Osage Tribe
SINGLES (with picture sleeve)
La musica muore Metamorfosi	Bla Bla (BRR 1339)	1975	side B taken from La finestra dentro
Himalaya Un fiume di luce	Bla Bla (BRR 1341)	1975	side B taken from La finestra dentro
PROMOTIONAL AND JUKEBOX SINGLES (with blank sleeve)
La musica muore	Bla Bla (JB 61)	1975	juke box single - backed with Mia Martini / Al mondo

A very rare album in its vinyl issue, La finestra dentro is unfortunately not currently available on CD, as the only reissue by Artis is long deleted.
The original Bla Bla album had a single cover and contained a lyric inner.

The only foreign release by Camisasca (written Camisaska on the cover) appears to be a French single, coupling La musica muore and Himalaya, released by EMI (2C 010-14255) in 1976.

The 2002 CD compilation La convenzione includes two Camisasca tracks from his singles and two from his album La finestra dentro, here in a slightly different version.

La finestra dentro - LP

La musica muore - 7" single

Himalaya - 7" single

La musica muore - 45 giri (French issue)