OVERGROUND by Sandro Brugnolini
Sonor Music Editions proudly presents this restored issue of Maestro Sandro Brugnolini's Overground. This elusive masterpiece in library music captures the most impressive work, alongside Underground (1970), of the Italian composer and alto sax player.
Sandro Brugnolini was a prominent member of the Modern Jazz Gang, a famous Italian jazz group, during the 1950s and 60s, which also included Amedeo Tommasi, Cicci Santucci, and Enzo Scoppa. The group was active from 1956 to 1965 and produced some remarkable albums such as Miles Before And After (1960) and the original soundtrack from Gli Arcangeli (1962), which featured the renowned American jazz singer, Helen Merrill. Subsequently, he recorded many of the genre's most iconic releases, including Feelings (1974), albeit uncredited, and ventured into Psychedelic Lounge Funk and Progressive Jazz Beat tunes.
Overground was released on Sincro Edizioni Musicali in 1970 as the soundtrack to Enrico Moscatelli and Mario Rigoni's documentary Persuasione, commissioned by Ente Provinciale Per Il Turismo Di Trento, a local tourism board in Italy, with music composed by Sandro Brugnolini and Luigi Malatesta featuring some of the best musicians in Italy at the time like Angelo Baroncini and Silvano Chimenti on guitars, Giorgio Carnini on piano and organ, Enzo Restuccia on drums, and Giovanni Tommaso on bass and effects. The music spans from underground Psychedelic Prog. Rock with swirling organs, trippy effects, and distorted fuzz guitars to sophisticated Lounge grooves with Avant-garde orchestrations.
The music has been transferred and remastered from the original master tapes. It has been lacquer cut in stereo by Jukka Sarapää at Timmion Cutting and packed in a thick cardboard sleeve featuring a fully restored painting by Umberto Mastroianni licensed by Centro Studi dell’Opera di Umberto Mastroianni.
Tracklist
| 1. | Cellulin | 2:59 |
| 2. | Adrie's Dream | 3:17 |
| 3. | Cirotil | 4:52 |
| 4. | Amofen | 4:23 |
| 5. | Simanite | 3:07 |
| 6. | Roxy | 3:34 |
| 7. | Alipid | 3:50 |
| 8. | Brain | 4:52 |
Credits
License courtesy of Sandro Brugnolini estate
This edition - ℗ 2024 Sonor Music Editions
Music composed by: SANDRO BRUGNOLINI (SIAE); LUIGI MALATESTA (SIAE). Originally released on Sincro Edizioni Musicali - SEM 1001 on 11/70. Recorded on March 12-13, 1970 at Dirmaphon studios, Rome (IT).
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Prominent in the 1960s Italian Jazz scene, Maestro Sandro Brugnolini became a renowned composer of Italian Library and Soundtrack music, crafting some of the field's most distinctive and experimental pieces throughout the 1970s and 1980s.