L'Uovo di Colombo

Toni Gionta (vocals)
Enzo Volpini (keyboards, acoustic guitar, vocals)
Elio Volpini (bass, guitar, vocals)
Ruggero Stefani (drums, percussion, vocals)

Based in Rome, L'Uovo di Colombo was another of those bands that just made an album without their record company support, so the band disappeared soon after the album release.

L'Uovo di Colombo is a great album, with the very good voice of Toni Gionta (his real surname was Tartarini and he was later the singer with Cherry Five) backed by a keyboard/bass/drums trio in perfect Le Orme style with occasional use of acoustic and electric guitar. The solid rhythm section and competent keyboard playing give the album a very high quality and the eight tracks are all perfectly enjoyable.

Two album tracks were also released as a single, the opening track, L'indecisione and the instrumental guitar-driven Turba, but with no success. Among the other album tracks, a mention for Consiglio, with keyboards in evidence and a very good vocal part.

After the band's demise, drummer Ruggero Stefani (he had previously played in I Fholks with future members of Reale Accademia di Musica) joined Samadhi, then Mediterraneo and Gli Alunni del Sole.
Elio Volpini went back to his old cohorts of Flea to form the jazz-rock outfit Etna.
As said before, singer Gionta changed his name to Tony Tartarini and was briefly involved in Cherry Five.

LP
L'Uovo di Colombo	EMI/Columbia (3C064-17889) EMI/Odeon (3C064-17889)	1973	gatefold laminated cover - available on two different labels
CD
L'Uovo di Colombo	Mellow/EMI (MMP 195)	1994	reissue of 1973 album - now deleted
SINGLES (with picture sleeve)
L'indecisione Turba	EMI/Columbia (3C006-17892)	1973	both tracks from the album

A rare album on blue EMI/Columbia label, housed in a distinctive laminated gatefold cover, L'Uovo di Colombo was never reissued in Italy but had a japanese issue (Crime/King NAS 1419).
Some copies were released on the Odeon label (sometimes with a small sticker applied on the Columbia logo on the cover, otherwise a different cover with the Odeon logo was used), these were probably released at the same time as the Columbia ones due to shortage of labels, or intended for export, and had the same catalogue and matrix numbers.


L'Uovo di Colombo - gatefold cover

L'Uovo di Colombo - inner gatefold

LP label (Columbia)	LP label (Odeon)

L'indecisione - 7" single