Zauber

Liliana Bodini (vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion)
Paolo Clari (keyboards, acoustic guitar)
Anna Galliano (keyboards, flute)
Mauro Cavagliato (bass, guitar)
Claudio Bianco (drums)

Zauber, from Turin, only released an album in the 70's but their career lasted until late 90's with many more CD releases.

A dreamy, relaxed album, this contains 7 tracks with acoustic guitar, keyboards and flute in evidence, in a soft style not far from Pierrot Lunaire. Liliana Bodini's voice is rather thin but gives the music an original atmosphere.
Some tracks, like Dietro la collina, have good symphonic inspired keyboard playing.

The band activity before the album release is documented by Phoenix, a CD issued in 1992 by Mellow, including 1977 unreleased recordings. This CD has been reissued in 2009 with different artwork.

In 1981 keyboardist Oscar Giordanino joined the group, an experienced musician from the jazz scene who had already collaborated with the group in the past.

Founder members Liliana Bodini and Mauro Cavagliato, with his brother Massimo on drums, have kept Zauber alive until the 90's with new CD releases.
Two members of the latest band line-up, Paolo Clari and Gianni Cristiani (flute), have released two CD's under the name Clarion in 1993 and 1995, with help from all the other musicians of Zauber, Liliana Bodini, Massimo and Mauro Cavagliato, Oscar Giordanino.

LP
Zauber	Mu (UM 104)	1978	single cover with lyric inner
	BTF/Vinyl Magic (UM 104LP)	2008	reissue of 1978 album
CD
Il sogno (Zauber)	Vinyl Magic (VM010)	1989	reissue of 1978 album with 3 bonus tracks - now deleted
	VM2000/Vinyl Magic (VM010)	2000	as above, but with 4 bonus tracks
Est	Drums (ECD 2239)	1991
Phoenix	Drums (ECD 2256)	1992	1977 recordings
	AMS/BTF (AMS 148 CD)	2009	reissue of the above, with different cover and 1 bonus track - limited 500 copies pressing
Aliens	Mellow (MMP 170)	1994
Venti (live 1994-1996)	Mellow (MMP 319)	1997	as "Zauber & Dino Pelissero"
Profondo blu	Mellow (MMP 401)	2001
Draghi e vampiri	Drums (ECD 2369)	2006
VARIOUS ARTISTS COMPILATIONS
Progressive voyage (with Il sogno, Le vele)	Mellow (MMP 164)	1993	CD compilation also including Quella Vecchia Locanda, Il Giro Strano, Dietro Noi Deserto, Corte dei Miracoli and others
Zarathustra's revenge (with Impressioni di settembre)	Mellow (MMP 328)	1997	4 CD set with 70's Italian prog classics reworked by new groups, including Finisterre, Ars Nova, Notturno Concertante, A Piedi Nudi
SINGLES (with picture sleeve)
I lillà L'estate dei ragazzi	Drums (ED 2090)	1981
Dentro me Periferia	Drums (ED 2095)	1982

Zauber is a very rare album, pressed in 500 copies, and only had a local distribution on the small Mu label.
The first vinyl reissue came out in 2008 on BTF, with the same single cover and the lyric inner as the original. The album has never been counterfeited nor issued abroad.
It's been reissued on CD with the new title Il sogno in two different forms, in 1989 with three bonus tracks (Liliana, Id, Il sogno) and again in 2000 with a fourth one (Ipotesi), cover and catalogue number being the same.

Along with their own works, Zauber also released an LP with Cooperativa Teatro Zeta in 1989, entitled Clowns, clowns, clowns...proibito (on Teatro Zeta label).