Artist
I FHOLKS
REALE ACCADEMIA DI MUSICA
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I FHOLKS
Henryk (Enrique) Topel Cabanes (vocals)
Federico Troiani (keyboards, vocals)
Pericle Sponzilli (guitar)
Pierfranco Pavone (bass)
Ruggero Stefani (drums)
REALE ACCADEMIA DI MUSICA
Henryk (Enrique) Topel Cabanes (vocals)
Federico Troiani (keyboards, vocals)
Nicola Agrimi (guitar)
Pierfranco Pavone (bass)
Roberto Senzasono (drums, percussion)
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Reale Accademia di Musica derived from a very popular
band from Rome, I Fholks, that in their four-year career also supported Jimi
Hendrix, but just managed to release a single.
The good single included a reworking of an Iron Butterfly song, Soldier in
our town, translated as Mi scorri nelle vene, and was produced by Equipe
84 leader Maurizio Vandelli, that brought the group to the Ricordi
label.
The group played in many important festivals of the early 70's, like Caracalla
and Gualdo in 1970 and the Viareggio Pop Festival in 1971, but split during the
recording sessions for their first English-sung album.
While drummer Ruggero Stefani (previously he had been the only man in the all-girl beat group Le Pupille) went with L'Uovo di Colombo, the others formed Reale Accademia di Musica, but guitarist Pericle Sponzilli abandoned during their LP recordings, being replaced by Nicola Agrimi (from Le Esperienze and early Banco del Mutuo Soccorso).
Produced again by Maurizio Vandelli, Reale Accademia di Musica is a good work, though not particularly original, dominated by the keyboards of Federico Troiani and with good vocal parts by the singer Topel. The long Il mattino and Vertigine are the best cuts of a nice album.
Soon after the album the band changed line-up, with new
guitarist Nicola Di Staso (from Le
Rivelazioni) replacing Agrimi, and later the drummer Walter Martino (formerly with
Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray).
This line-up played in 1973 in one of the "Controcanzonissima" concerts held at Rome's Piper, then Di Staso joined
Logan Dwight and Martino formed Goblin.
A new line-up, including Topel Cabanes, Troiani, Senzasono, bassist Dino Cappa
and guitarist Gianfranco Coletta (ex Banco del
Mutuo Soccorso and Chetro & Co.), worked
with singer songwriter Adriano Monteduro, and in 1974 his first album was
co-credited to Reale Accademia di Musica.
This is by no means, as many say, the group's second album, as they were just
working as the backing band to Adriano's songs, and it's a beautiful album of
songs with soft rock arrangements, not a prog album at all!
The last appearance of Reale Accademia di Musica was as
backing band for Nada on her 1975 album, 1930: Il domatore delle scimmie.
Singer Henryk Topel Cabanes wrote the tracks for a second album by Reale
Accademia di Musica, to be entitled La cometa, but this was never
finished.
Federico Troiani had a good career later as solo artist, session musician and producer.
A new group named Reale Accademia di Musica has been formed by Adriano Monteduro and includes his son Antonello (keyboards), Manuel Muzzu (bass) and Giuseppe Augusto Aramo (drums and vocals). This group has released a CD, Il linguaggio delle cose in 2008, but their style is totally different from the old Reale Accademia di Musica!
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(the trolley icon
lets you order the CD from BTF website)
| I FHOLKS SINGLES (with picture cover) |
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| Mi scorri nelle vene Cerchi |
Ricordi (SRL 10621) | 1970 | |
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First album, housed in a gatefold cover not
particularly beautiful, is not rare and rather common in Italy (but not cheap!).
The Contempo reissue faithfully reproduces the cover design.
Second album is more difficult, probably it was released in a limited quantity
though on RCA. It has a thin and delicate textured gatefold cover and a brown coloured
lyric inner.
The first album has been reissued on CD in March 2003 by BMG with mini-LP
gatefold cover and obi, as part of their "Dei di un perduto rock" series, and
later repressed in October of the same year when a second batch of those CD's
came out.
The same CD was announced by BMG as being also available with standard jewel
case (cat.no. 74321-98074-2) but was probably never issued in this form.
Both albums have been reissued in Japan, the first on King (K22P 281), and Korea.
The Nada album 1930: Il domatore delle scimmie was
released in 1975 by RCA (cat.no. TPL-1 1157) and six tracks on it were written
by Reale Accademia singer Henryk Topel.
A single was also released with two tracks from the album, Il domatore delle
scimmie and È bello cantare. It had the catalogue number RCA TPBO
1134.
No counterfeits exist.
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I Fholks - Mi scorri nelle vene - 7" single cover |
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Reale Accademia di Musica - gatefold cover |
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Adriano Monteduro & Reale Accademia di Musica - gatefold cover |
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| Il linguaggio delle cose - CD |
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| Reale Accademia di Musica - 1972 with Nicola Di Staso |
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| Reale Accademia di Musica - live at "Controcanzonissima", at Piper in Rome, 1973. with Nicola Di Staso and Walter Martino |
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The new 2008 line-up of Reale Accademia di Musica has a website, www.realeaccademiadimusica.it/
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Thanks to Nicola Di Staso for pictures and information