Artist
CAPRICORN COLLEGE
1972
Pino Ferro (guitar, vocals)
Nino Costantino (guitar, flute, vocals)
Mario Barigazzi (keyboards)
Guerrino Franchini (sax, flute)
Oreste Ferro (bass, vocals)
Adamo Biello (drums, vocals)
1974
Franchini replaced by
Antonio Balsamo (sax, recorder)
Often described as a prog group, Capricorn College are
much closer to the standard early 70's italian melodic pop groups than to
anything progressive.
Led by composer Mario Barigazzi, much active since the 60's under the surname
Barimar, the group released two albums on the Kansas label, both containing an
unimpressive mix of commercial pop with trivial lyrics and instrumental parts
with light prog influences.
The first one, Orfeo 2000, is the best of the two, especially in the instrumental tracks, while the second one, released as Barimar & Capricorn College, contains 12 shorter songs.
The band also released five singles, only one of which was taken from an album, but apparently split after the second LP.
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| Orfeo 2000 | Kansas (LDM 17004) | 1972 | single cover |
| LP di primavera | Kansas (5300 502) | 1974 | single cover - as "Barimar & Capricorn College" |
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| LP di primavera | Vinyl Magic (VM 026) | 1991 | reissue of 1974 album |
| Orfeo 2000 | Mellow (MMP 234) | 1994 | reissue of 1972 album |
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SINGLES (with picture sleeve) |
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| Capricorn college Junius |
Bentler (BE NP 5060) | 1971 | both tracks unreleased - as "The Capricorn College Brass" |
| Story Mab, mystic woman |
Bentler (BE STR 8018) | 1972 | both tracks unreleased |
| Oramai Domani č festa La cittā Prayer |
Kansas (K 507) | 1972 | four tracks EP - all unreleased tracks |
| Donna Gill |
Kansas (DM 1158) | 1972 | both tracks unreleased |
| Una donna come te La vita |
Kansas (5100 407) | 1974 | both tracks from Lp di primavera |
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PROMOTIONAL AND JUKEBOX SINGLES (with blank cover) |
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| Story Mab, mystic woman |
Bentler (BE STR 8018) | 1972 | white label jukebox single |
Both the original albums by Capricorn College are now very rare and expensive. No vinyl reissues or counterfeits have ever appeared, but both are commonly found in their CD reissues.
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Orfeo 2000 - LP |
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LP di primavera - LP |
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Capricorn college - 7" single |
Story - 7" single |
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Oramai - 7" EP |
Donna - 7" single |
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| Una donna come te - 7" single | |
Thanks to Giuliano Semprucci and John Elvis Gualtieri for pictures and information contained in this page
