[italian heavy prog] J.E.T - Fede, Speranza, Carita (1972)

Описание: Album: Fede Speranza Carità
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J.E.T. was an Italian prog band, making exactly the kind of stuff that we love at TDATS, it’s about time they appeared here!

This is what the essential site italianprog.com (link) has to say about them:
“Their name is very popular among Italian music collectors because from their ashes came the commercial pop group Matia Bazar, and also among prog collectors because of their LP rarity.

Jet (or J.E.T. as their name was usually written) were formed in Genova at the beginning of the 70's from a previous band of the same name that also included later members of another pop band, Ricchi e Poveri. The group made their debut in 1971 at the radio contest "Un disco per l'estate" with their first single 'Vivere in Te', and two other singles a year later, 'Non la Posso Perdonare' and 'Il Segno Della Pace', were still in a melodic pop style.

Their first album, Fede Speranza Carità, also in 1972, derives from a radical turn in their musical style, to the then popular progressive rock, and is a very good album, with strong hard rock influences and falsetto vocals but with nice use of organ and a solid rhythm section, as in the long 'Sinfonia Per Un Re' that sometimes reminds of New Trolls' multivocal parts and Il Prete e Il Peccatore. Unfortunately this has been their only venture into prog territory, and later singles took them back to a commercial rock not particularly memorable.

In 1974 the band added a female voice (Antonella Ruggiero) and a new drummer (Giancarlo Golzi from Museo Rosenbach) changing name to Matia Bazar and starting a very long and successful career that, through many line-up changes, lasted up to the present.”



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