Le Orme
Ad Gloriam

Italy
Year: 1969

Introduction: DRIIIN DRIIIN DRIIIN

“Hello
We are Le Orme.
Seeing as you're listening to our LP
We'd like to…”

Le Orme.

The group was formed in Italy and emerged in the second half of the 60s in a musical landscape which, aside from notable exceptions, was devoid of ideas, new insights, and experiments.

While the vast majority of our "artists" rehashed styles imported and slavishly imitated from the United States and England, Le Orme, as the name itself indicates, sought to leave a "personal" mark, a Made In Italy imprint that took them across the ocean.

“I've worked all my life but
I never have a lira in my pocket
I've given everything I could give but
I've never had anything…”

"Ad Gloriam" can be defined as one of the first Italian concept albums, where psychedelia, prog, innovations intertwine.
Noises.

The lyrics revisit stories of daily malaise, love, dreams, and moments of sad disillusionment.

“The phone has been silent for so long now
This house feels so big without you
Your room is still empty and you know it
Until you return to me
Until you return…”

Every single track smells. The aroma is intense and pleasant to hear. Adrenaline.
The rhythms are at times relentless and at others subdued, muffled.
You feel like screaming…
letting a feather fall violently…
smiling and dying while standing.

“Fog
in my mind
I
smoke slowly
alone
among so many people.”

We have an introduction, nine chapters of pleasure. A conclusion.
Just like in a book.
But here, we hear phones ringing
We hear the rain falling.
We hear beautiful music.
We feel the nostalgia.

“Thus ends our LP
And we are tired of recording
And we go to sleep
But you
Keep listening
Many more times to our LP”