Claudio Rocchi – Suoni di Frontiera

I first discovered Claudio Rocchi through my father’s vinyl collection, which featured his Il Volo Magico N. 1  LP as one of his most prized possession. As a small-town hippy and prog enthusiast teenager in the early 70s, my father…

Luciano Cilio – Dialoghi del Presente

In his collection of music writings Quasi una Fantasia Adorno describes the melancholic radiance of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana by comparing it to the dazzlingly white villas of the Italian southern coast:  Migrants who go to the Argentine from Southern Italy…