{"title":"Daniela Casa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniela Casa was an Italian singer and songwriter, born in Rome on February 6, 1944. She was a talented artist known for her unique musical style. Daniela was married to the renowned artist Paolo Casa and together they had a son who became a successful singer as well. Throughout her career, she captivated audiences with her soulful vocals and heartfelt lyrics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith influences from various genres such as jazz, pop, and folk, Daniela's music resonated with listeners of all backgrounds. Her songs were filled with emotion and showcased her exceptional songwriting abilities. She effortlessly combined different musical elements to create a sound that was truly her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDaniela Casa's talent and creativity made her stand out among other artists of her time. Her contributions to the music industry continue to be celebrated today. If you enjoy the works of *Massimo Catalano*, *Remigio Ducros*, or *Giuliano Sorgini*, you will definitely appreciate Daniela Casa's remarkable artistry.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"art-moderna","title":"Art Moderna","description":"\u003cp\u003eFiled neatly and undisturbed within the micro-genre of 1970s Italian artsploitation, amongst films soundtracks such as 'Girl With The Crystal Plumage', 'A Quiet Place In The Country' and 'House With The Laughing Windows', this obscure library LP is one of the few fully formed concept albums from the recently reappraised discography of Rome's most versatile and adventurous female production-music composer Daniela Casa. Once destined for a shelf life within the storage rooms of defunct TV studios and educational facilities Daniela's previously strictly commercially unavailable music has in recent years been given new focus at the hands of open-minded disc detectives and sonic salvage hunters earning Casa's distinctive feminine take on experimental instrumental mood and movie compositions a place next to her widely respected masculine counterparts such as Alessandro Alessandroni, AR Luciani, Pierro Umiliani, Morricone and Nicolai. Sharing tight studio space and strict syndication schedules with all of the aforementioned artists (under commission from Romano Di Bari's fervently independent Flipper music factory) Daniela Casa embraced a liberating wind change in affordable music technology which opened doors for uninhabited solo compositions in home studios taking advantage of communal recording consoles and domestic synthesisers which nurtured a lesser-documented creative family tree (or rather secret society) and paved the way for individualistic projects from the likes of Magnetic System's Fabio Frizzi and Goblin's Claudio Simonetti.Here, on this repress of the impossibly rare, one-time subscription-only album, Arte Moderna, we find Daniela at her versatile best creating a wide thematic suite (based on paintings and sculptures in an abstract art gallery) for which she would deploy mostly organic and acoustic instruments to construct a set of unorthodox compositions straddling avant garde, free jazz and Giallo tension (with some brief moments of brooding electronics and italian pop). Veering from her stylistic pop interests (which clearly included a fondness for the music of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin) Daniela Casa's Arte Moderna saw her adopt a less era specific approach combining neo-classical elements and piano improvisations akin to the likes of France's Francois Tusques or Burton Greene, or America's Mal Waldron without compromising her strong narrative personality for this unique abstracted picture music.Unintentionally but profoundly political in her prolific existence Daniela Casa's contribution to a predominantly male industry earned her a small clutch of inspired idiosyncratic Italian female bedfellows such as Nora Orlandi, Giullia De Muittis (aka Kema), Fiorella Fratini, Emma De Angelis and Maria Teresa Luciani, who, with faceless anti-celebrity as its essence, never benefitted the wider critical focus that much of this music now duly commands on the collectors circuit. Finders Keepers Records in continued collaboration with the Di Barri company, with the Casa \/ Ducros family blessing, are now proud to shine new light on this sonic sculptures and provide a fresh context where educated music listeners are ready to fill the gaps between Delia Derbyshire, Ennio Morricone, Suzanne Ciani and Harry Partch and patronise a very welcome considered alternative to the recent rise in popularity of Italian Giallo soundtracks from a seldom savoured feminine creative vantage point. Daniela's musical paintings can now be unveiled to the public for the first time, with Modern Art sounding as contemporary as it did when it was recorded forty years ago. The gallery is now open for limited sittings, discerning ears and open minds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cacophonic","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50409946775883,"sku":"402997","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2ba5c790-7ac7-44d8-8ff6-758da2990763_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726633307"},{"product_id":"america-giovane-n-2","title":"America Giovane N.2","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"561\"\u003eDaniela Casa (1944–1986) was a singer and composer, and the wife of fellow library music artist Remigio Ducros, author of \u003ci data-start=\"1035\" data-end=\"1052\"\u003eAmerica Giovane\u003c\/i\u003e (\"Young America\"), an LP that ideally precedes this second chapter. Originally released in 1975, \u003ci data-start=\"1150\" data-end=\"1172\"\u003eAmerica Giovane N. 2\u003c\/i\u003e is today — like much of the Edizioni Leonardi catalogue — extremely rare and highly sought-after by collectors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1284\" data-end=\"1650\"\u003eMusically, it shares with the aforementioned \u003ci data-start=\"1329\" data-end=\"1346\"\u003eAmerica Giovane\u003c\/i\u003e a remarkable stylistic diversity: from folk to psychedelia, from funk to rhythm and blues. Unlike the first volume, however, this record reveals a more pronounced jazz aura — \"Fix\" and \"Soft Bird\" are virtually two brief free-jazz excursions — which makes the album even more compelling and distinctive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1652\" data-end=\"2019\"\u003e\u003ci data-start=\"1652\" data-end=\"1674\"\u003eAmerica Giovane N. 2\u003c\/i\u003e is part of a reissue series produced in collaboration with Edizioni Leonardi (Milan, Italy), dedicated to extremely rare library music LPs originally released between the late 1960s and early 1970s — most of which had never been reissued until now. These recordings are finally made available again for collectors and library music enthusiasts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vinyl Magic","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56535441572171,"sku":"R9481-1275","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cover.ki_14612b6b-69f0-4910-b5d3-5eba2b5b8e4b.jpg?v=1771325246"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_8f19dfa8_thumbnail_4096_6fc172e2-0bbc-460a-92f1-d75610d0675c.jpg?v=1726633290","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/daniela-casa.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}