Published:
August 26, 2015
The name Lamartine was a true mystery of library history. A genuine lost and unreleased full-length LP from one of the most mysterious figures of early Italian electronic sound and library music. A missing puzzle piece in the small discography of experimental tape and synthesiser music by the composer known only as Lamartine recorded (but never pressed) in 1974 by the archive that bought you the work of Daniela Casa and the wildest electronic experiments of Alessandroni, Giuliano Sorgini and Fabio Frizzi.
The late discovery of Reportage by Lamartine provides vintage electronic music enthusiasts with a wider vista of the development of the genre in Italy. Rendered in the hinterland between Italian cinema’s penchant for psychedelic rock and the onset of the synthesizer music and Italo disco movements later in the decade, these artists and their records represent the laboratory projects that researched the capacity of electronic music before it swept the nation’s media quite unlike anywhere else in the world.
Lamartine - once an anonymous, dubious, genius in the library micro-genre - can now be named and recognized as a unique artist with a distinctive sound, adding new colors to the vibrant palette of Italian studio artists and painting a wider sonic picture of the evolution of Italian pop and film music. The Italian library liberation front keeps growing – the genre that keeps on giving.
Track list:
1. Congresso al Terzo Mondo
2. Disoccupazione
3. Corteo Della Speranza
4. Morte del Mediterraneo
5. Desideri di Pace
6. Riarmo Nucleare
7. Sceicchi a Congresso
8. Fame e Orgoglio
9. Angoscia Universale
10. Depurazione del Mare
11. Soluzioni e Speranze
*check also our Italian library mix from the Auditorium's oven, HERE.