Artist
NEW TROLLS
NEW TROLLS ATOMIC SYSTEM
1968-70
Vittorio De Scalzi (guitar, vocals)
Nico Di Palo (guitar, vocals)
Mauro Chiarugi (keyboards)
Giorgio D'Adamo (bass, vocals)
Gianni Belleno (drums, vocals)
1970
Chiarugi quits
1971
enters:
Maurizio Salvi (keyboards)
1972
D'Adamo replaced by:
Frank Laugelli (bass)
1973-74 (N.T.Atomic System)
Vittorio De Scalzi (guitar, keyboards, flute, vocals)
Giorgio Baiocco (sax, flute)
Renato Rosset (keyboards)
Giorgio D'Adamo (bass)
Tullio De Piscopo (drums)
1975-76
Vittorio De Scalzi (guitar, vocals)
Nico Di Palo (guitar, vocals)
Ricky Belloni (guitar, vocals)
Frank Laugelli (bass)
Gianni Belleno (drums, vocals)
One of the hardest group's histories to compile, New Trolls' story is full of line-up changes, band name changes, struggles between band members... and great hits! In their long story New Trolls have been one of the most popular bands in Italy, and they crossed many different styles, passing through beat, slight psychedelia, progressive, hard rock and melodic pop.
The story begins in Genova around mid 60's, when the five musicians, among the best in town, decided to form a band, the name coming from the old band of Vittorio De Scalzi, I Trolls. After some dates as support band for the Rolling Stones, they released their debut single Sensazioni in 1967, the first of a very long series of singles. The band was one of the best live acts in Italy at the time, and Hendrix-inspired guitarist Nico Di Palo was one of the first italian guitar heroes.
First album, Senza orario senza bandiera, came
in 1968, with lyrics written for them by singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André, a
good album, very successful at the time, but still tied to the beat sound of the
early days. A second album, simply called New Trolls, followed two years
later, in 1970, being a compilation of tracks from their singles. These were
still the days in Italy where people preferred the singles to the less popular
LP's, and these often were simple compilations of already known songs.
At the
end of 1970 the first line-up change, with original member Mauro Chiarugi
leaving the band, that continued as a quartet. In the same year the band was also
involved along with The Trip in the
film Terzo canale - Avventura a Montecarlo, and a single from the
soundtrack, the beautiful (and sadly
unreleased on LP) Autostrada, was their only release on RCA.
In 1971 their greatest album, Concerto Grosso per i New Trolls, with music written by composer Luis Enriquez Bacalov with orchestral arrangements, an ambitious work that's still recognised as one of the most important italian rock releases ever made. This album started the collaboration of keyboardist Maurizio Salvi with the group.
In 1972 a new bass player, the italo-canadian Frank Laugelli entered the band replacing Giorgio D'Adamo. With the new line-up the band released Searching for a land, another ambitious work. A double album, with a live side and mostly sung in english, this was a disjointed album and not a great success, as most of the english-sung albums by italian prog artists.
Later that year another album, Ut, with a heavier sound, closer to hard rock. A nice album to many, this caused the band to break in two parts, with the two leaders Di Palo and De Scalzi going in two different ways. A legal struggle followed, for the use of the famous name, and while Di Palo with the other three chose the Ibis way, in a hard rock direction, Vittorio De Scalzi formed a new band, called N.T.Atomic System to avoid contractual problems, and with a more polished sound. To help their fans to recognize this band as the real New Trolls, early copies of the album had a sticker on the sleeve covering the N.T. name with the full New Trolls brand.
N.T.Atomic System released their first album in 1973, a
nice album with a large use of horn instruments, De Scalzi himself playing flute
and keyboards along with guitar. A jazz influence can be heard, and it became
stronger in their second album, Tempi dispari, a totally instrumental
album recorded live in a jazz-rock vein, very far from the New Trolls sound.
Incidentally, the group's name on this album is again New Trolls and no
musicians are mentioned, but this is in fact the same De Scalzi-led line-up as
the previous album. Tempi
dispari was rather disappointing and unsuccessful, its two side-long tracks
being more in an english jazz-rock style than in the usual mix of hard and
melodic prog that New Trolls fans were expecting.
A good single was also released by the same line-up, with the band rendition of
Mussorgsky's A night on bare mountain (Una notte sul Monte Calvo),
and it was also included on their first album reissue with the same name.
N.T.Atomic System disbanded after the second album, with Rosset moving to England with Nova and De Piscopo starting a long career as talented session drummer and solo artist. Incredibly, De Scalzi rejoined old friend/enemy Di Palo and drummer Belleno for a new chapter in New Trolls story. Bassist Laugelli also returned from Ibis, and a fifth member was found in former Nuova Idea singer and guitarist Ricky Belloni, giving even more strength to the always incredible multivocal parts of the group. This band released Concerto grosso n°2, an ideal prosecution to their best work, but it was a pale attempt to reproduce that masterpiece. Some parts are good, but the shorter tracks are in a melodic pop vein, and the album is far from their best efforts.
Magma label (founded by Vittorio De Scalzi) also released a live album, as the band has always been well known as one of the best live groups in Italy. New Trolls live, also in 1976, is a good album, even containing some excerpt from Concerto grosso n°2.
In 1978 another new recruit, also from Nuova Idea, was keyboardist Giorgio Usai, but the band slowly abandoned the rock track to a mainstream pop that gave them many more hits (Quella carezza della sera and Aldebaran among them). The band kept playing and releasing mediocre pop albums until early 90's, then came to a new split.
In late 90's Vittorio De Scalzi made a successful tour with ex-Latte e Miele drummer Alfio Vitanza and two younger members, playing old New Trolls songs, including a complete remake of the band's 1968 first album. In 1999 Belleno, Belloni and Di Palo tried to form again New Trolls but had legal problems again with De Scalzi on the use of the band's name. History repeats...
Two interesting new CD's have been released in 2001
credited to Vittorio De Scalzi - La storia dei New Trolls; both recorded live,
the first one, La storia dei New Trolls (Saar CD 22228), includes
reworkings of old tracks, the other, Concerto grosso live (La Stampa CDV
2001), is a very good rendition of Concerto grosso n.1 and 2 with
an orchestra.
This band still has an intense live activity in 2002 with a very good line-up of
De Scalzi and Vitanza with Andrea Maddalone and Mauro Sposito (guitars) and
bassist/singer Roberto Tiranti. They were usually playing a mix of 60's through
90's songs, but in some larger theatres they concentrated on the full orchestral
version of the two Concerto Grosso's and a more prog oriented
tracklisting.
Other past members, led by Nico Di Palo and also
including Usai and Belloni, now use the name Il Mito dei New Trolls, but they
didn't release anything.
Drummer Gianni Belleno formed a different group called Il Cuore dei New Trolls.
In 2007 De Scalzi's group, featuring Alfio Vitanza (drums, vocals),
Andrea Maddalone and Mauro Sposito (guitars, vocals), Francesco Bellia (bass,
vocals), reunited with Nico Di Palo for some concerts.
At last the long
waited reunion of the two group's leaders has come, and gave birth to the third
chapter of their Concerto Grosso, entitled The seven seasons. The album
starts where the previous one had ended, with strong classical music influences
(even with help from a lyric female singer on one track) mixed with a typical
rock sound.
Some doubts come from the english-sung vocals, maybe intended to present the
group to a wider audience of prog fans throughout the world, but the CD is on a
good level anyway.
To increase the confusion between the various groups using the name New
Trolls, at the end of 2007 no less than two box sets have been issued which
include the Concerto Grosso in a live version.
The first one is TR3, released under the name "Il Mito New Trolls", which
contains a CD with six new studio tracks from a line-up including Ricky Belloni,
Giorgio Belleno and Giorgio Usai, and the live recording of Concerto Grosso 1
& 2 from a concert in La Spezia in 2004, featuring Nico Di Palo, that is
also included in DVD format.
The second album is called Concerto Grosso Trilogy Live, and the line-up
here are the current "genuine" New Trolls with De Scalzi and Di Palo, from a
concert in Trieste in 2007. This box set contains 2 CD's and a DVD with the
three parts of Concerto Grosso.
(the trolley icon 
lets you order the CD from BTF website)
| LP | |||
| Senza orario senza bandiera | Cetra (LPX 3) | 1968 | laminated gatefold cover with inside opening |
| Fonit/Pellicano (PL 409) | 1980 | single cover | |
| New Trolls | Cetra (LPX 7) | 1970 | laminated single cover |
| Fonit/3000 (SFC 100) | 1976 | different single cover | |
| Fonit/Pellicano (PL 410) | 1980 | different single cover | |
| Fonit/Vinyl Magic (LPP 422) | 1991 | single cover, as original | |
| Concerto grosso per i New Trolls | Cetra (LPX 8) | 1971 | laminated gatefold cover with top opening |
| Fonit/3000 (SFC ) | 1976 | single cover | |
| Fonit/Pellicano (PL 644) | 1982 | single cover | |
| Searching for a land | Cetra (LPX 12/13) | 1972 | laminated gatefold cover with top flap |
| Fonit (DPU 70 ) | 1977 | gatefold cover | |
| Fonit/Vinyl Magic (LPP 429 ) | 1991 | gatefold cover | |
| Ut | Cetra (LPX 20) | 1972 | laminated gatefold cover |
| Cetra (LPX 20) | 1974 | non-laminated gatefold cover | |
| Fonit/3000 (SFC 138) | 1976 | different single cover with no title | |
| Fonit/Pellicano (PL 411) | 1980 | single cover | |
| Fonit/Vinyl Magic (LPP 430) | 1991 | gatefold cover | |
| N.T.Atomic System | Magma (MAGL 18003) | 1973 | as New Trolls Atomic
System triple gatefold cover - lyric insert - early copies had a stickered sleeve |
| Tempi dispari | Magma (MAGL 18005) | 1974 | gatefold cover |
| Concerto grosso n°2 | Magma (MAL 02) | 1976 | laminated gatefold cover |
| Fonit/Pellicano (PL 648) | 1982 | single cover | |
| New Trolls live | Magma (MAL 04) | 1976 | single cover |
| Una notte sul Monte Calvo | Magma (MAL 05) | 1976 | reissue of N.T.Atomic System with one extra track - single cover |
| Aldebaran | Warner Bros (T 56589) | 1978 | single cover with inner |
| New Trolls | Warner Bros (T 56761) | 1979 | triple gatefold cover with inner |
| F.S. | Fonit (LPX 93) | 1981 | single cover with inner |
| America OK | Fonit-Cetra (LPX 117) | 1982 | |
| Tour | Fonit-Cetra (LPX 141) | 1985 | single cover |
| Amici | Ricordi (SMRL 6384) | 1988 | |
| Quelli come noi | WEA (9017 7101) | 1992 | |
| Concerto grosso - The seven seasons | Edel (0185681 AER) |
2007 | 2LP - limited vinyl issue with gatefold cover - first 300 copies numbered and signed by the group |
CD (relevant issues only) |
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| N.T.Atomic System | Vinyl Magic (VM 060) |
1994 | 1973 album reissue |
| Tempi dispari | Vinyl Magic (VM 061) |
1994 | 1974 album reissue |
| Live N.T. | Vinyl Magic (VM 068) |
1994 | 1976 album reissue with different cover |
| Concerto grosso 1 & 2 | Warner/Fonit (266022) |
90's | reissue on a single CD for the 1971 and 1976 albums |
| Senza orario senza bandiera | Warner/Fonit (266112) |
90's | 1968 album reissue |
| New Trolls | Warner/Fonit (266122) |
90's | 1970 album reissue |
| Searching for a land | Warner/Fonit (271662) |
90's | 1972 album reissue on single CD |
| Ut | Warner/Fonit (820522) |
90's | 1972 album reissue |
| Concerto grosso - The seven seasons | Edel (0182912 AER) |
2007 | the third part of Concerto Grosso by the reformed group |
| TR3 | BMA Music (BMA 00073) | 2007 | CD + DVD from "Il Mito dei New Trolls - live in La Spezia 2004 |
| Concerto grosso Trilogy live | Edel (0185688 AER) |
2007 | 2CD + DVD - live in Trieste 2007 with the three parts of Concerto Grosso |
PARTECIPAZIONE A RACCOLTE DI ARTISTI VARI |
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Terzo canale - Avventura a Montecarlo (with Autostrada and Il nulla e la luce) |
RCA (PSL 10485) | 1970 | film soundtrack - also includes The Trip, Mal, Sheila, The Primitives, Four Kents, Jody Clark, Ricchi e Poveri |
SINGLES (with picture sleeve - up to 1981) |
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| Sensazioni Prima c'era luce |
Cetra (SP 1355) | 1967 | |
| Visioni Io ti fermerò |
Cetra (SP 1369) | 1968 | |
| Cristalli fragili Ehi tu ritorna |
Cetra (SP 1381) | 1968 | |
| Io che ho te Lei mi diceva |
Cetra (SP 1392) | 1969 | |
| Davanti agli occhi miei Quella musica |
Cetra (SP 1398) | 1969 | |
| Un'ora Cosa pensiamo dell'amore |
Cetra (SP 1400) | 1969 | |
| Signore, io sono Irish Duemila |
Cetra (SP 1408) | 1969 | |
| Una miniera Il sole nascerà |
Cetra (SP 1415) | 1969 | |
| Annalisa Allora mi ricordo |
Cetra (SP 1427) | 1970 | |
| Una nuvola bianca Corro da te |
Cetra (SP 1428) | 1970 | |
| La più bella sei tu Come Cenerentola |
Cetra (SP 1445) | 1970 | |
| Autostrada Il nulla e la luce |
RCA (BM 3563) | 1970 | |
| Una storia Il vento dolce dell'estate |
Cetra (SP 1449) | 1971 | |
| Venti o cent'anni Una vita intera |
Cetra (SP 1453) | 1971 | |
| Adagio Allegro |
Cetra (SP 1456) | 1971 | |
| La prima goccia bagna il
viso part I & II |
Cetra (SP 1460) | 1971 | |
| Black hand Percival |
Cetra (SP 1494) | 1972 | |
| Una notte sul Monte Calvo Somewhere |
Magma (MGL 48007) | 1974 | |
| Bella come mai Lei |
Magma (MAG 01) | 1976 | |
| Solamente tu Let it be me |
Magma (MAG 07) | 1977 | |
| Quella carezza della sera Aldebaran |
Warner Bros (T 17282) | 1978 | |
| Anche noi Prima del concerto |
Warner Bros (T 17342) | 1979 | |
| Che idea Accendi la tua luce |
Warner Bros (T 17527) | 1979 | |
| Musica Poster |
Warner Bros (T 17654) | 1980 | |
| Il serpente Quella luna dolce |
Fonit (SP 1752) | 1981 | |
| Là nella casa
dell'angelo Il treno |
Fonit (SP 1762) | 1981 | |
PROMO-ONLY AND JUKEBOX SINGLES (with blank cover except where noted) |
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| Visioni |
Cetra (JB ...) | 1968 | juke box single - no
cover backed with other artist's track |
| Cristalli fragili Ehi tu ritorna |
Cetra (JB 279) | 1968 | juke box single - no cover |
| Una miniera Il sole nascerà |
Cetra (JB ...) | 1969 | juke box single - no cover |
| Lei mi diceva | Cetra (JB ...) | 1969 | juke box single - no
cover backed with Creedence Clearwater Revival/Walk on the water |
| Annalisa | Cetra (JB 344) | 1970 | juke box single - backed with Gipo Farassino/Senza frontiere |
| La prima goccia bagna il
viso part I & II |
Cetra (JB 367) | 1971 | juke box single |
| Venti o cent'anni |
Cetra (JB 376) | 1971 | juke box single - no
cover backed with Alluminogeni/Solo un attimo |
| La prima goccia bagna il
viso |
Cetra (JB 399) | 1971 | juke box three-track single - backed with Delirium - Preludio and Osanna - L'uomo |
| In St.Peter's day |
Fonit/Besana "Gran regalo" (JBF 417) | 1972 | free with Panettone Besana - custom picture sleeve - backed with J.S.Bach/Toccata e fuga in Re minore |
| Muddy Madelein |
Fonit/Besana "Gran regalo" (JBF 614) | 1972 | free with Panettone Besana - custom picture sleeve - backed with L.van Beethoven/Canto pastorale |
| Una notte sul Monte Calvo |
Fonit/Besana "Gran regalo" (JBF 6..) | 1974 | free with Panettone Besana - custom picture sleeve - backed with a classical music track |
| Una notte sul Monte Calvo | Magma (???) | 1974 | juke box single - backed with Luky Pistoia/Buonasera buonasera signorina |
| Concerto grosso n.2 |
Cetra (JB 670) | 1976 | juke box single - no
cover backed with Ornella Vanoni/Più |
All the New Trolls albums have been released in large
quantities and have had many reissues in later years, so they are easy to find,
with a few notable exceptions.
Senza orario senza bandiera came out with a laminated gatefold cover with
record inserted from the inside, later issues had a standard gatefold cover with
side opening, and subsequent pressing lost the laminated cover. The very first
pressing of this album has the BIEM logo on the label, replaced by the SIAE logo
in 1969.
Oddly enough for a singles compilation, the second
album New Trolls is probably the hardest
and most expensive to find.
Original pressing had a single laminated flipback cover,
later pressings came with non-laminated cover, that in some cases had a
different design.
Concerto grosso per i New Trolls, one of their best sellers, had a gatefold laminated cover with record inserted from the top, later pressings had a standard side opening and in some cases non-laminated covers.
Searching for a land came with a large laminated foldout cover, the gatefold having a small flap creating a sort of poster. Records were inserted from the top, under the flap.
Ut had initially a laminated thick gatefold cover, that was subsequently replaced by a standard non-laminated thinner cover.
The N.T.Atomic System album, one of the first on
Magma label, came in a nice triple gatefold
cover and contained a lyric insert. In the very first copies it had the title covered by a sticker with
the full name New Trolls Atomic System, that couldn't legally be used due to the
struggle with former members.
Una notte sul Monte Calvo was in fact the same album with a bonus track
from the single with the same name, and was housed in a different single
cover.
Concerto grosso n.2, has a glossy gatefold cover, but there are copies, which can be dated from the SIAE stamp around 1979-80 that have a standard smooth cover, the cardboard used being thinner than the originals.
The 2007 album, Concerto grosso - The seven seasons has also been released in a limited 2-LP vinyl edition with the same tracks as the CD. An early pressing of 300 copies was sold through the New Trolls Fan Club and the records are numbered and signed by the musicians.
Japanese issues appeared for Concerto grosso (King GXF2043), Ut (Seven Seas/King GXF2050), Searching for a land (Seven Seas/King K19P429/30), N.T.Atomic System (King K22P241, including an extra track), Tempi dispari (King K22P279), Concerto grosso n°2 (King K22P181), New Trolls live (King K22P327, with different cover) and FS (King K28P214).
N.T.Atomic System, Tempi dispari and New Trolls live have had a 2003 CD reissue by the japanese label Arcangelo (nos. ARC-7023, ARC-7024 and ARC-7025) with a mini-LP cover. These are also part of an 8-CD box set dedicated to Grog (that includes in fact only three Grog releases along with five albums originally on Magma).
Si-Wan in Korea has released N.T.Atomic System
(SRML 2003 - exists with both triple-fold and single cover), Tempi dispari (SRML 2006), and New Trolls live
(SRML 2008 - with different cover and title, it's called L.I.V.E.N.T.).
N.T.Atomic System
also had a previous Korean pressing on Magma label (cat.no.60) with a
monochrome blue back cover typical of that country. The same treatment was given
to Concerto grosso
with a grey back cover and cat.no.137. Concerto grosso
also came with a different design single sleeve on Fonit/SR label
no.SZPR 107.
Concerto grosso, Concerto grosso n°2 and N.T.Atomic
System have been released in Venezuela all with single covers.
Concerto
grosso was also released in France
on Les Disques Pierre Cardin label (cat.no.122) in a single cover with rounded
corners, and a single from the album on the same label, with Adagio and Allegro
had a black and white picture cover and catalogue number 25001.
Spanish label Zafiro issued in that country many New Trolls albums, like
Searching for a land and Concerto grosso n.1 in 1972 and Concerto
Grosso n.2 in 1977, and singles, among which an unusual couple of extracts
from the Concerto grosso LP featuring Allegro/Adagio (Zafiro 00X
245 - 1972) and Adagio/Shadows (Zafiro 00X 343 - 1977).
Moreover some later spanish-sung singles exist on Hispavox, like Aquella
caricia de otoño (Quella carezza della sera - 1979) and Que idea
(Che idea - 1980).
Una notte sul Monte Calvo also appeared in Germany on the Pan label with the translated title Night on bare mountain.
Two odd singles were released in Lebanon on the Empire
label, the first one had Muddy Madelein and In St.Peter's day,
another one contained Adagio (Shadows) coupled with Shadows (for Jimi
Hendrix) and had catalogue number EM 103.
The single Cristalli fragili/Ehi tu ritorna was
released in Brazil in 1968 on Fermata (FB 33.310).
A track from a 1972 single, Black hand, unreleased on LP, appears on a japanese 9-track promo compilation on Nexus, called Nexus International Italian Rock Special (cat.no.SSY-17) that also includes singles' tracks by Krel (pre-PFM), Hunka Munka, Ricordi d'Infanzia and Patrizio Alluminio (Alluminogeni).
No counterfeits exist of any New Trolls albums.
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Night on bare mountain (Una notte sul Monte Calvo) - german issue LP |
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| Sensazioni - 7" single | Visoni - 7" single |
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| Cristalli fragili - 7" single | Io che ho te - 7" single |
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| Davanti agli occhi miei - 7" single | Un'ora - 7" single |
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| Signore, io sono Irish - 7" single | Una miniera - 7" single |
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| Annalisa - 7" single | Una nuvola bianca - 7" single |
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| La più bella sei tu - 7" single | Autostrada - 7" single |
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| Una storia - 7" single | Venti o cent'anni - 7" single |
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| Concerto grosso/Adagio - 7" single | La prima goccia bagna il viso - 7" single |
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| Vittorio De Scalzi /La storia dei New Trolls 20-aug-2002 Isola del Gran Sasso (AQ) |
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| Vittorio De Scalzi /La storia dei New Trolls 28-aug-2006 Santa Maria degli Angeli (PG) |
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| New Trolls 13-feb-2007 Terni - Teatro Verdi |
It was 1971, while Deep Purple opened their new album with an explosive
performance of their drummer Ian Paice, New Trolls chose to open with a
crescendo of strings their Concerto Grosso, composed and orchestrated by
the incomparable baroque Luis Bacalov, the five musicians deal with an
incredibly hard struggle: what was initially meant to be the soundtrack to a
film, La vittima designata, becomes one of the most important works of
the italian progressive rock.
The album title comes from a musical entertainment form, very popular around the
end of the 18th century. A Concerto Grosso was made by three movements and a
song: here we have Allegro, Adagio, Andante con Moto, and Shadows,
a tribute to Hendrix (dominated by the guitar of Nico Di Palo). To fill up the
whole second side there's an "empty room improvisation", haughty and
rich of musical contents, including a drum solo by Belleno. There's an
incredible balance, in the band, between baroque, hard rock, a jazzy feel and
melodies. Among the classical references, the one to Shakespeare deserves to be
mentioned.
Leonardo Gabrielli
The official website of New Trolls is www.newtrolls.it
New Trolls Fan Club's website is www.newtrollsfanclub.com and www.newtrollsfanclub.it
An interesting source of information in italian and english, including discography and TV clips, is on the New Trolls Net Club, at http://www.newtrollsnetclub.it
The website of Vittorio De Scalzi is
www.vittoriodescalzi.it,
Nico Di Palo has
www.nicodipalo.com.
Gianni Belleno is playing with a New Trolls-derived band called "Il cuore
dei New Trolls", their site is
www.ilcuorenewtrolls.it
The current New Trolls drummer Alfio Vitanza has a website,
www.alfiovitanza.com
Thanks to Valerio D'Angelo and Rocco Trezza for some of the information in this page
