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Rating: Avant-garde, counterculture, experimental, subversive, pseudo-intellectuals.
Everything is present in the established Italian scene of the mid-seventies. Most of the works produced on the peninsula are snubbed, while attention is always directed overseas or to the British island. Not bad, it is necessary to keep up with the English and West Coast marvels. But there's nothing worse than suffocating so many beautiful things that I personally sometimes don't find at all in foreign artists.
Are you familiar with the early works of Nurse With Wound? Well, here a bit of everything that follows is anticipated. Those miraculous cases, like Univers Zero, that must not be missed.
The debut of Dedalus, dated 1973, borders on the ethereal and intangible jazz of the primordial Weather Report, clearly surpasses the jazz/pop of Il Volo, doesn't get lost in baroque mannerisms like "YS" by Il Balletto, and doesn't enjoy all the visibility of Area. It's a standalone realization that is part of a still misunderstood scene in Italy.
The first album by Dedalus is an experimental jazz that looks to the Soft Machine of "Third" and "Fourth", dares to align with the Canterbury Sound of Henry Cow, and enjoys entirely personal inspirations.
This is precisely where the art of making music lies. Being obviously influenced, but offering an original, bold, and novice dose that allows a musical genre to expand.
And they fully succeed in this debut. Just imagine in their second work, from 1974, where there are no boundaries, no sonic ghettos recorded, delivering forty minutes of pure avant-garde.
There is no tendency towards cacophony, there is always a certain class in the noise-making, and neither is there the usual hasty freakish collage. One must follow every small sound. The harmony, if we wish to define it as such, of these electronic pranks is traced, yet they are never boring or excessively intellectual. Sun Ra, Miles Davis, and Roscoe Mitchell are reevaluated with disarming freshness.
The sound deconstruction is the ideology that feeds their sensations.
The only anarchic example of our obscure land.
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