Artist
RACCOMANDATA CON RICEVUTA DI RITORNO
Luciano Regoli (vocals, acoustic guitar)
Nanni Civitenga (guitar)
Stefano Piermarioli (keyboards)
Damaso Grassi (flute, sax)
Manlio Zacchia (bass)
Francesco Froggio Francica (drums, percussion)
RRR (as they were often referred to at the time due to their long difficult name) were from Rome, all coming from various minor groups, only Luciano Regoli had a significant experience with Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray.
Their only album, Per... un mondo di cristallo, housed in a curious gatefold cover containing a nice drawing from the Up&Down Studio (as in Procession's Fiaba), mixes a typical italian prog sound with acoustic guitar, flute and keyboards in evidence, with jazz influences, and the result is sometimes disjointed, with great tracks such as Un palco di marionette mixed with less convincing jazzy tunes like Il mondo cade su di me.
The band played in the main italian pop festivals in
1972-73 before splitting due to the pressure from their record company that
wanted them to participate in the Sanremo Festival.
Singer Regoli and guitarist Civitenga formed Samadhi,
while drummer Froggio Francica played with Procession on their 1974 second album
Frontiera, and for a short time with Kaleidon.
Luciano Regoli has pursued his interest in art becoming a popular painter.
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lets you order the CD from BTF website)
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| Per... un mondo di cristallo | Cetra (LPX 15) | 1972 | gatefold laminated cover |
| Fonit/VinylMagic (LPP 433) | 1991 | gatefold cover | |
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| Per... un mondo di cristallo | Fonit Cetra (CDM 2026) | 1989 | reissue of 1972 album - now deleted |
| Warner/Fonit (28186-2) | 90's | as above- now deleted | |
| BTF/Vinyl Magic (VMCD
117) |
2006 | as above with mini LP gatefold cover | |
Not particularly difficult to find, Per... un mondo di cristallo was originally released with a gatefold laminated cover as most of Fonit Cetra current releases (this particular one had the Cetra logo on label). The Fonit/Vinyl Magic reissue has a standard gatefold cover reproducing the original but with different number and blue label.
Two different cover issues exist, one with the "per..." writing on front cover in black type is the standard one, but another one has the same word in blue. Original or what?Apart from this doubt, no counterfeits exist.
The only foreign issue reported on vinyl comes from Japan, on Nexus (K25P-426), dated 1984. A japanese CD also exists, on Strange Days (1004), with mini-LP cover.
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Per un mondo di cristallo - inner gatefold |
Find Luciano Regoli's own website (totally dedicated to his painting activity, with no mention of his past as singer) at www.lucianoregoli.it
