Per un amico
Per un amico | ||||
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Studio album by Premiata Forneria Marconi | ||||
Released | November 1972 | |||
Recorded | 1972 | |||
Genre | Progressive rock | |||
Length | 34:09 | |||
Language | Italian | |||
Label | Numero Uno | |||
Producer | Premiata Forneria Marconi | |||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Per un amico ("For a Friend") is the second album from the Italian progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi. Released in 1972 by all the initial members of the group, it is considered their breakthrough album that put them on the map. The album remains popular among progressive rock fans throughout Italy and the group will usually still perform all tracks on the album today.
The album, still progressive at heart, additionally borrows influences from a variety of rock genres and subgenres. In an Allmusic review, Per un amico was lauded as a classic within the genre and deemed par to the work of the biggest progressive rock acts of the 1970s. Many of the songs from this album would appear either in their original form or re-recorded with vocals in English on PFM's English-language album Photos of Ghosts.
Composition and critical reception
Per un amico is rooted within the progressive rock genre, yet includes elements of music ranging from avant-garde to hard rock.[1] The lyrics in the album are also sung in Italian.
Robert Taylor, in an Allmusic review, gave the album a four-and-a-half stars out of five and a positive review. Deeming it, along with its predecessor, as a classic, he claimed that it was as fine as the music of major groups such as Genesis, Yes, or King Crimson, and concluded by saying "Always intelligent, but without pretension, this is progressive rock in its most literal definition".[1]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Mauro Pagani, Franco Mussida and Flavio Premoli, except where noted
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Appena un po'" | 7:44 |
2. | "Generale" (Mussida, Premoli) | 4:18 |
3. | "Per un amico" | 5:24 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Il banchetto" | 8:39 |
2. | "Geranio" | 8:04 |
Personnel
- Franco Mussida – vocals, electric & acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar, theorbo, mandocello
- Flavio Premoli – spinet, keyboards, Hammond organ, Minimoog, Mellotron, tubular bells, harpsichord, piano, vocals
- Mauro Pagani – flute, piccolo, violin, vocals
- Giorgio Piazza – bass, vocals
- Franz Di Cioccio – drums, percussion, vocals
All-Time Ranking
Rolling Stone listed the album at 19th in their "50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time" list.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Taylor, Robert. Per un amico at AllMusic
- ^ Reed, Ryan (17 June 2015). "50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
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- Franz Di Cioccio
- Marco Sfogli
- Patrick Djivas
- Lucio Fabbri
- Alessandro Scaglione
- Roberto Gualdi
- Franco Mussida
- Flavio Premoli
- Mauro Pagani
- Giorgio Piazza
- Bernardo Lanzetti
- Gregory Bloch
- Walter Calloni
- Piero Monterisi
- Storia di un minuto (1972)
- Per un amico (1972)
- L'isola di niente (1974)
- Chocolate Kings (1975)
- Jet Lag (1977)
- Passpartù (1978)
- Suonare Suonare (1980)
- Come ti va in riva alla città (1981)
- PFM? PFM! (1984)
- Miss Baker (1987)
- Ulisse (1997)
- Serendipity (2000)
- Dracula (2005)
- Stati di immaginazione (2006)
- A.D.2010 - La buona novella (2010)
- PFM in Classic – Da Mozart a Celebration (2013)
- Photos of Ghosts (1973)
- The World Became the World (1974)
- Live in USA aka Cook (1974)
- Fabrizio De André in Concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM (1979)
- Fabrizio De André in Concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM, vol 2 (1980)
- Performance (1981)
- www.pfmpfm.it (1998)
- Live in Japan 2002 (2002)
- Piazza del Campo (2005)
- PFM canta De André (2008)
- Live in Roma guest Ian Anderson (2012)
- Un Minuto (2014)
- Un Amico (2014)
- Un'Isola (2014)
- A Ghost (2015)
- The World (2015)