L'isola di niente

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L'isola di niente
Studio album by Premiata Forneria Marconi

Publication
(s)

1974

admission

November 1973 to February 1974

Label (s) Numero Uno

Title (number)

5

running time

35:03

occupation
  • Bass , vocals: Jan Patrick Djivas
  • Drums , vocals: Franz Di Cioccio

production

PFM and Claudio Fabi

Studio (s)

Advision Studios, London
Studio Fonorama, Milan

chronology
Photos of Ghosts
(1973) 		L'isola di niente The World Became the World
(1974)

L'isola di niente is the third regular studio album by the Italian progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM). It was published by Numero Uno in 1974 . The English version of The World Became the World was released in the same year by Manticore Records .

Creation and publication

After the English version Photos of Ghosts of the second album Per un amico (with lyrics by Peter Sinfield ), PFM toured Italy and Great Britain in 1973 and early 1974. With the new bass player Jan Patrick Djivas, who replaced Giorgio Piazza, a new album was recorded mainly in London and partly in Milan during the tour in late 1973 and early 1974. The otherwise Italian version contained an English-language piece with a text by Peter Sinfield, for the completely English-language version with Sinfield's texts, a piece from the debut album Storia di un minuto was also re-recorded.

At concerts in Tokyo on May 30th and 31st, 2014, a. L'Isola di Niente and The World Became the World performed in full and recorded. The recordings were released in 2014 and 2015 as Un'Isola and The World .

Title list and style

L'Isola di Niente

  1. L'Isola di Niente - 10:42
  2. Is My Face on Straight - 6:38
  3. La luna nuova - 6:21
  4. Dolcissima Maria - 4:01
  5. Via Lumière - 7:21

The World Became the World

  1. The Mountain - 10:47
  2. Just Look Away - 4:03
  3. The World Became the World - 4:49
  4. Four Holes in the Ground - 6:23
  5. Is My Face on Straight - 6:40
  6. Have Your Cake and Beat It - 7:20

PFM play varied and complex progressive rock on the album with choirs and theatrical singing, with symphonic, anthemic, rocky and jazzy passages.

reception

L'Isola di Niente is now considered a classic of Italian progressive rock. The eclipsed magazine put the album at number 20 on its list of 150 prog albums "for eternity", because it proves that PFM was " in no way inferior to Genesis , King Crimson or ELP " and acted with "feather-light casualness" . The English-language version The World Became the World , however, strongly criticizes Nik Brückner from the Babyblauen Seiten : "The English lyrics don't always go with the pieces, never with Franco Mussida and certainly not with the music."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Premiata Forneria Marconi: L'Isola di Niente , Baby Blue Pages , accessed on August 3, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b François Couture: L'Isola di Niente from Allmusic (English), accessed on August 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 39.
  4. ^ Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Premiata Forneria Marconi: The world became the world , Baby Blue Pages , accessed on August 3, 2015.