Statale 17/Emphasis - Rock Scene (special)
SKU
MMP187
This reissues a mega-rare Italian album that was pressed in only a few hundred copies in 1978 to try to gain either or both of these bands (each of whom had a side of the lp to themselves) a record contract. Of course in 1978, there were no takers & the 20' from each band is all we are left with. La Statale 17 is "an instrumental bunch who reminds me of bands such as Samadhi, Planetarium etc. Emphasis are pretty strongly in the mid period Genesis vein." Both bands deserved a better hand than fate dealt to them....
"An incredibly rare album, Rock scene is rarely seen for sale and reaches very high prices. It was locally sold in a very limited number of copies and never reissued on vinyl. Like in Preghiera di Sasso and Diapason's case, these bands from near Bozen are always mentioned together due to their only release, a very rare split album released by a small local label in Alto Adige in 1978. Both played a mainly instrumental keyboard-led progressive, though Emphasis had some English-sung vocal parts, and the album has four tracks on each side. La Statale 17 had some interesting jazz-inspired guitar parts in their tracks on side 1, Emphasis have some Genesis influences in their tracks, though the keyboards sound is rather thin and the overall recording quality is far from perfect."-italianprog.com