Loy & Altomare – Chiaro (1974, LP, Italy)

Tracklist:

A1 A Zio Remo 6:11
A2 Tango Sudamericano 3:29
A3 Sangue Freddo 5:00
A4 La Ballata Del Cow-Boy 3:15
B1 Sogni 4:26
B2 Porte Chiuse 4:41
B3 Quattro Giorni Insieme 3:25
B4 Torre D'Ombra 4:59
B5 M'Ha Rimbambito 2:15

Musicians:
Acoustic Guitar – Luciano Ferone, Altomare
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar [Pedal Steel Guitar] – Stephen Grossman
Bass – Roberto Gardin
Drums, Percussion – Francesco Froggio
Keyboards, Organ [Hammond] – Fabio Liberatori
Saxophone – Massimo Urbani
Violin – Claudio Filice
Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Loy
Vocals, Backing Vocals – Donatella Bardi, Marina Cavaccini
Written-By, Mixed By – Loy & Altomare

Loy & Altomare ‎– Lago Di Vico (M. 507) (1979, LP, Italy)

In the early seventies Checco Loy and Massimo Altomare decided to form a group after their names, following other famous examples as Simon & Garfunkel. They both are just twenty. They meet in England, and the symbiosis melts for one and for the other uncertainties and hesitations. CBS signs them and in 1973 their first album “Portobello” is released. A year later they released “Chiaro” but after a long period of silence begins.

When five years later, thanks to CGD, the duo is finally back on the market, it's time for “Lago di Vico (m. 507)”, produced by Vito Alberto Pirelli, who a few years later founded the I.r.a. record company, launching, among others, Litfiba and Diaframma. Times have changed since the first half of the decade and the album is a mirror of this important change, where the social wounds become the protagonists of a stylistic hardness influenced – even just a little bit – by the new sounds of punk and hard rock. For the audience the album is not a big hit, because radio stations, except maybe for those more involved in the ‘social revolution’, refuse to play the record. But that’s the reason why it was a cult album in the Seventies’ Italian rock.