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Arti & Mestieri – Positivo/Negativo [Turin, Italy ; Prog Rock / Jazz Fusion] (1974)
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˝One of the bands from the Cramps label, Arti & Mestieri from Turin were formed around 1974 by ex-Trip drummer Furio Chirico (he had previously played with I Ragazzi del Sole and Martò e i Judas) with other musicians from various musical experiences. Venegoni, Vigliar and Vitale had previously played with Il Sogno di Archimede, a jazzy-prog group.˝
˝Often playing with Area, they shared with them the same interest in fusing jazz-rock with prog elements, and their first album, Tilt, is a very good result, even if the limited vocal parts were their weakest point. The album includes only two vocal tracks, and the rest is mainly instrumental.˝
˝The group had a good live activity, supporting the likes of PFM and even Gentle Giant, as demonstrated by the good and now deleted Live CD released in 1990 (another live CD with a different 1974 recording has been released in 2002, see below for details).
On the second album, 1975’s Giro Di Valzer Per Domani, a singer was added on some tracks, Gianfranco Gaza from Procession; the album has a better sound and production than the previous one, in a similar style to the previous one but with stronger jazz rock influences. Two of the album’s best cuts, the instrumental Valzer Per Domani and the vocal Saper Sentire were also released as a single.˝
˝In 1979 another Arti & Mestieri album was released, Quinto Stato, with an open line-up featuring only Chirico and Gallesi from the original group, with Marco Cimino (keyboards – from Errata Corrige and Esagono), Claudio Montafia (guitar and flute) and other collaborators, more in a mainstream jazz-rock vein, while subsequent releases strongly veered towards fusion. Fourth album, Acquario, is not a live album as declared on the front cover, just a live-in-studio recording. Like its follower, Children’s Blues, it was released on a small label with local distribution only.˝
˝Guitarist Venegoni also released two solo albums on Cramps as Venegoni & Co., always in the same jazz-rock style as later Arti & Mestieri. Drummer Furio Chirico has continued playing and teaching his instrument, also releasing solo albums and some drum playing tutorials. He’s the first Italian drummer to ever play at the Modern Drummer Festival in USA (2002 edition). Keyboardist Crovella has played and taken production role on new prog bands’ albums such as Romantic Warriors, Tower, Mosaic.˝
˝In 2001 a revived Arti & Mestieri, led by original members Venegoni, Crovella, Gallesi and Chirico aided by Marco Cimino (from Errata Corrige, he had already joined the band on Quinto Stato and was with Gallesi also in Esagono) and violinist Corrado Trabuio released a new CD Murales on the Electromantic label. Mostly instrumental and somehow influenced by jazz and world music, the CD also included reworkings of a couple of tracks from the early albums, Gravità 9,81 and Nove lune prima. In the same year another CD release called Articollezione was issued, a compilation of unreleased tracks from their first period, more in a progressive style than later works.˝
Source/more info on them here: http://www.italianprog.com/a_arti.htm