{"title":"Le Stelle Di Mario Schifano","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"dedicato-a","title":"Dedicato A...","description":"\u003cp\u003eA legendary short-living band founded in Rome by guitarist Urbano Orlandi and collected together by visual artist and movie-maker Mario Schifano, who was for Le Stelle what was Andy Warhol for The Velvet Underground. \u003ci\u003eDedicato a...\u003c\/i\u003e is probably among the most wanted, rare and expensive italian vinyl album of any time. It was released in 1967, it mixes improvvisation, medieval evocations thanks to guitar's arpeggio, acid psychedelia, noises, voices, choruses, quotes, blues and even tv jingles. A musical anarchic orgy. A post-modern madrigal. Their cacophonous 18-minute jam, Le Ultime Parole di Brandimarte (with the instructions \"to be listened with the TV on and no volume\"), is one of the most experimental tracks of the time. \"Italy's main contribution to the psychedelic era was Le Stelle di Mario Schifano, a musical event put together by decadent-futuristic pop artist Schifano the same way Andy Warhol put together the Velvet Underground. They improvised a cacophonous 18-minute jam, Le Ultime Parole di Brandimarte (with the instructions \"to be listened with the TV on and no volume\"), off their only album Dedicato A (1967), one of the most experimental tracks of the time. After a few seconds of voices and noises, someone intones a fairy-tale madrigal. It lasts only one minute, after which a fibrillating mass of sounds and percussion invades the stage. There is no reference melody, just a shrill keyboard being played rather childishly, like everything else. After eight minutes, a guitar riff becomes dominant, despite the general chaos. The tribal percussion gets louder. The organ distortions duel with the guitar. Each and every instrument competes for sonic space the way wolves compete for the flesh of the dead prey (here the \"dead prey\" being classical harmony). After sixteen minutes, the guitar restores a bit of order and intones a solemn theme, but it is already the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the album pales compared with this masterpiece. Emotions surface in Susan Song, a madrigal accompanied by a pastoral flute and a distant piano. Intervallo is more or less a Bob Dylan-esque tirade a` la Rainy Day Women minus the words. \" Scaruffi\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Audio Clarity","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50411578884427,"sku":"1142546","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Dedicato_b2bef5f7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726660258"},{"product_id":"dedicato-a-1","title":"Dedicato A...","description":"\u003cp\u003eMario Schifano wasn't a musician but a visionary exponent of Pop Art, a sort of italian Andy Warhol who, at the time, wanted to integrate his work with a group, providing psychedelic visuals to support his live performances. The meeting between Schifano and the four musicians later dubbed \"The Stars of...\" resulted in a handful of live concerts, a 45 rpm single, and this album: at the time, undoubtedly, almost no one in Italy had ever heard anything like it, unless they'd flown to England to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of \"Swingin' London.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDedicato a...\u003c\/em\u003e opens with a long piece lasting almost twenty minutes, an acidic, at times delirious jam session that gives an idea of the group's live potential. The second half of the album consists of five shorter, more thoughtful songs, but still in line with the sound of the opera. It was an isolated experiment, unparalleled in Italy at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Audio Clarity","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57386309255499,"sku":"R0537-4923","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0889397107390.jpg?v=1779272705"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/le-stelle-di-mario-schifano.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}