Early Bird - Richie Kamuca

Richie Kamuca - from "Richie Kamuca Quartet"
1957 (Mode)

#jazzlegends
 
08-The Gravediggers V,-Spooky
Uncle beast, filthy cow, thief, what has Debaser Radio become??!! Everyone is busy getting sad, terrible singer-songwriter vibes of the worst taste and splattering miserable liquids enjoying what Mr. So-and-So might mean in that text??!!! Wretched rabble...
There used to be rock and roll, for crying out loud.
Get on your knees and apologize!!!
@[sfascia carrozze] please take care of a general ban!!!
 
Rene Clair's - And Then There Were None (1945)

René Clair (1 of 3)
"Ten Little Indians" - 1945

#35mm
 
Athos - Ribelle Come Me what a fantastic song
 
LA BOTTEGA DELL'ARTE NOTTURNO PER NOI 1974

Chart-topping romantic songs, but also something like this.
Musically prepared.
 
Ingrandisci questa immagine
Week @[JURIX]?
 
Isn't Life Strange
#finallyimoody
 
Ingrandisci questa immagine
 
Socrates - Phos* 1976 (full album)

Originally (and also later, but only on special occasions), they were called Socrates Drank the Conium, "Socrates drank the hemlock." However, since a considerable amount of literature had already been produced about the death of the Athenian, and not to mention that it wasn't exactly the most agile name for a band, they chose to shorten it (even on the covers) to Socrates. Synthesis is always important.
They entered history - and the English charts, where they lingered for a couple of weeks - with the album Phos (Light) in 1976. It was produced by Evangelos Papathanassiou, whose (omni)presence on the record goes far beyond the role of "special guest" and co-writer ascribed to him.
Under Papathanassiou's artistic direction, the muscular blues rock of the band - dominated by the Hendrixian riffs of Piraeus guitar hero Yannis "John" Spathas - allows for airy and evocative ambient/progressive openings highlighted by celestial synth textures (the majestic coda of 'Every Dream Comes To An End'), as well as complex folk frameworks of Hellenic and/or British flavor, particularly paying homage to Gentle Giant ("Time of Pain") and inevitable yet valuable nods to the pop of Aphrodite's Child ("A Day in Heaven").
A radiant testimony of the potential of Greek rock, less prolific than that of the nameless Anatolian counterparts but certainly no less inspired, and a way to remember Yannis Spathas, who passed away in 2019.