Italian multi-instrumentalist and former member of Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) who left the group in 1977. Known for pioneering Mediterranean and world-music sounds in Italy and for his collaboration with Fabrizio De André on Creuza de mä (originally released in the 1980s).

Pagani is praised in reviews as a multi-instrumentalist who plays violin, bouzouki, cane flute, mandolin and viola. His 1978 self-titled debut is repeatedly cited as a pioneering, mostly instrumental album that mixes Mediterranean, folk, jazz-rock and fusion elements and features contributions from members of PFM, Demetrio Stratos, Teresa De Sio and others. He revisited Creuza de Ma in 2004 with international musicians.

DeBaser hosts multiple appreciative reviews of Mauro Pagani's work, especially his 1978 self-titled debut and the 2004 revisitation of Creuza de Ma. Reviewers praise his multi-instrumentalism, Mediterranean/world-music fusion and daring experiments. The overall consensus highlights the debut as pioneering and the 2004 project as a careful, if imperfect, homage.

For:Fans of Italian progressive rock, world music, Mediterranean-influenced fusion and experimental instrumental music.

 the album, which I recently revisited after years of regrettable neglect, is a masterpiece, or almost.

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 a work that is tremendously current in its sounds (the recovery of instruments and sounds from the Mediterranean area) and its approach (completely free in interpreting the "song structure" in an original and truly pioneering way).

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 The title of the album is the same, Creuza de Ma, but accompanied by an eloquent 2004, further emphasizing the sense of gentle melancholy present in that old sea path, a parable of dialogue between peoples.

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