Genco Puro & Co.

Despite the name Genco Puro & Co. was not a group, but a solo artist from Sicily, whose real name was Riccardo Pirolli.
Under the name Riccardo Rolli he released three singles for Durium and Decca in the late 60's, then was in Cristalli Fragili with Gianni Mocchetti and Gianfranco D'Adda and along with them played on Fetus, the first album by Franco Battiato, who, in return, helped him for the release of the Area di servizio LP.

The album is mainly song based, built on keyboards and guitars, with Battiato singing in the best tracks Giorno d'estate and Nebbia, and seven of the 12 tracks on the LP composed by one Ed De Joy, who was, according to many sources, Franco Battiato himself.

After a later single taken from the LP, Pirolli has stayed in the musical world as arranger and sound engineer. He is not to be confused with the similarly named drummer Roberto Genco that released a jazz-rock LP in 1977.

LP
Area di servizio	Bla Bla (BBL 11053)	1972	single cover
CD
Area di servizio	Artis (ARCD 040)	1992	reissue of 1972 album with two bonus tracks from the first single - now deleted
	BTF/VinylMagic (VM CD 119)	2007	as above - new reissue with mini-LP cover
SINGLES (with picture sleeves)
La famiglia Beato te	Bla Bla (BBR 1324)	1972	both unreleased tracks
Sahara Annamaria	Bla Bla (BBR 1328)	1972	both unreleased tracks
Frontiere A San Francisco	Bla Bla (BBR 1335)	1973	both tracks from Area di servizio

A very rare album, one of the very few on Bla Bla to be housed in a rather poor single sleeve, Area di servizio was never reissued on vinyl.
The Artis CD reissue also included both tracks from the first single La famiglia, but it's been deleted long ago. A new reissue has been made by BTF/Vinyl Magic in 2007 with mini-LP cover, and this also contains the same extra tracks as the previous CD.


Area di servizio - LP

La famiglia - 7" single LP	Frontiere - 7" single LP