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 some singles, two of which in 1974 taken from both their albums. After some years of silence the name Capricorn College was used again in 1978 for a disco-styled single, then it disappeared.
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| Orfeo 2000 | Kansas (LDM 17004) | 1972 | single cover |
| Cinedelic (CNPL 809) | 2021 | reissue of the 1972 LP - 400 copies on black vinyl and 100 in various colours | |
| 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 - released 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 |
| Ho incontrato lei Amore dammi la mano |
Kansas (K 525) | 1974 | both tracks from Orfeo 2000 with different titles - released as "Barimar & his group" |
| Una donna come te La vita |
Kansas (5100 407) | 1974 | both tracks from Lp di primavera |
| Start music California |
Ball Fire (LD 100) | 1978 | group's name wrongly spelled as "Copricorn College" on the labels |
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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.
Both were reissued on CD but only the first on LP, by Cinedelic in 2021. No foreign issues exist.
Issued on a single in 1972, Donna is the remake of Woman Is the Nigger of the World by John Lennon, translated by Domenico Serengay.
The 1974 single Ho incontrato lei, credited to Barimar & His Group, contains two tracks already included on the first Capricorn College album, with new titles but in the same version as on the LP. Ho incontrato lei was entitled Orfeo 2000 and was one of the most complex and progressive songs on the album, while Amore dammi la mano was on the album with the title Corri corri corri. This single is very rare and has only been found with no picture cover.
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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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Thanks to Giuliano Semprucci, John Elvis Gualtieri, Simone Corsi, Roberto Ravera and Corrado Magnano for pictures and information contained in this page
