ANDREA CENTAZZO INDIAN TAPES SEALED ORIG'80 LTD EDIT #130/300 3LP BOX SET SIGNED

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·       ANDREA CENTAZZO - INDIAN TAPES - ULTRA-RARE ORIGINAL 1980 PRIVATE PRESSING ON OBSCURE ITALIAN 'ICTUS' LABEL; EXTREMELY LIMITED, NUMBERED EDITION #130 OF 300, HAND-NUMBERED AND AUTOGRAPHED BY THE ARTIST HIMSELF - ORIGINAL ICTUS STEREO 3-LP BOX SET ICTUS 0013/14/15.

·       ORIGINAL ITALIAN PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

PERSONALLY AUTOGRAPHED AND HAND-NUMBERED 130 OF 300 BY ANDREA CENTAZZO HIMSELF– PLEASE SEE THE MAGNIFIED DETAIL OF HIS SIGNATURE, SHOWN ABOVE (PLEASE NOTE: THE ARTIST SIGNED IN CRAYON ON GLOSSY SURFACE; THE AUTOGRAPH CAN EASILY GET WORN OFF)

·       ORIGINAL BLACK AND YELLOW ICTUS LABEL WITH INCAN GLYPHS MOTIF (THE LABELS MIMIC THE COVER ARTWORK)

·       GUARANTEED to include a 3-panel booklet with biography, opinions and discography; a 12-page 12" booklet in english with info about the recordings; a 4-page 12" insert in italian with condensed info and a 60x90 cm. poster.

·       THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·       TWO “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

THIS ITEM COMES FROM THE INCREDIBLE, SINGLE-OWNER COLLECTION WE ACQUIRED A WHILE AGO, IN WHICH ITEMS ORIGINALLY BOUGHT BY THE OWNER FROM THE MID-1970s to THE MID-2010s WERE KEPT STILL SEALED IN A NEAR-LABORATORY, TIME-CAPSULE CONDITIONS AND IN PRACTICALLY CLIMATE- AND HUMIDITY- CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT.  CONDITIONS OF SOME OF THESE ITEMS RANGE FROM IMPECCABLE TO TRULY UNBELIEVABLE. SOME OF THESE BEAUTIFUL MUSEUM PIECES LOOKED SO PERFECT THAT WE HAD TO REINSPECT AND RE-EXAMINE THEM A FEW TIMES TO MAKE SURE THEY OUR EYES ARE NOT DECEIVING US.

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST ITALIAN PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL 1/2-INCH THICK CARDBOARD BOX

·       ORIGINAL GLOSSY, LIGHTLY LAMINATED COVER

·       FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING (based on the weight of the set) On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least thick, and  10 being the thickest), we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 6.

·       As far as we know, this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other way, manner or format.

 (►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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This award winning recording contains some of the masterpieces of the percussive art of Andrea Centazzo. This album is a snapshot of Andrea Centazzo at the peak of his percussion career. 1980 saw the release of a project that illustrated the multiplicity of Andrea Centazzo's musical experience: compositional creativity, percussion virtuosity, study, research, and performance. This was 'Indian Tapes', a self-produced, three record box set of a substantial body of solo works surpassing all Centazzo's previous releases. This was not just improvised music but a selection of compositions and sound fragments recorded over the years - nurtured, developed and re-recorded over the prior seven years, the realization of a precise, clearly conceived sound project. 'Indian Tapes' is not, as one might be led to think, an album inspired by the music of Native Americans (which consists mostly of simple monadic and monorhythmic forms of expression) but an original work of art which pays homage to these peoples, to their philosophy of life, and to their relationship with nature. It was on the banks of Lake Michigan in 1976, on seeing the monument to the Native Americans, the first inhabitants of those lands, that Centazzo decided to undertake his next impossible mission; to alone produce a work dedicated to the Native Americans. On his first U.S. tour in 1978, Centazzo visited the Indian reservations in search of a legend that had always fascinated him. It was two years after his fateful visit before he could begin this extensive musical work-using all the audio-technical means at his disposal, re-discovering old recordings, re-elaborating them, and composing new material. The preparation had actually begun in 1973, when al the outset of his musical career, Centazzo started experimenting in his home-built recording studio, using percussion and early electronic musical instruments. It had been a spontaneous project, without preconceptions, where random factors and artistic determination met and blended (with the help of reels and reels of tape) in experiments of all kinds.

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With Indian Tapes, Centazzo enters into a wide open space, justifying this freedom with a series of truly noteworthy poetic creations, musical propositions, and technical solutions which give weighty validation to the 19 compositions. It seems as if Centazzo is principally an untiring researcher, if one can intend by this term a mentality which moves the musician to perceive and reorganize every type of sound event, to provoke emotions via artificial or natural means. On the three records the percussion instruments are mixed with voices, natural sounds, synthesized sounds, all captured by a manifestly attentive ear, which fuses these thousands of everyday impressions into a coherent argument. You can actually physically feel the close ties between the day to day life that Centazzo leads in his home studio and his travels around the world in search of new musical experiences; the link between the artist and the recording studio kept under his pillow at night. On listening to these records one has the sensation of making a long journey, going far off into abstract worlds, yet at the same time remaining in the company of our own innermost reality. Thus, we meet the 'Indians', in a fabulous and somewhat hallucinatory way. Yet the encounter is filtered by the patient and creative use of instrumental technique and recording equipment. --Downbeat

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In Indian Tapes Centazzo appears to lay himself open to all the possibilities of the situation, accenting the anomaly of the percussion instruments, on their belonging to diverse musical cultures and territories. It is the wealth of instrumentation that leads us to different echoes, tackles the layers of ones memory, induces different images, yet despite all this there is a clear synthetic force and working cohesion. Therefore, we are not witnessing a mixture of musical genres in the sense of a collage, but the presentation of diversity, of heterogeneity. This imposing work, full of music that is technically strong, mysterious, pluralist, encompasses all the erective musical experience, ex-machine, avant-garde, jazz and more, that Centazzo has accumulated in a year of untiring activity --Armando Gentilucci

TRACK LISTING:

A1         Recitative And Variations For Nine Alpine Cowbells     6:01

A2         Étude Sur Le Tubophone    3:35

A3         Mantecas  4:52

A4         Indian Tapes     4:19

B1         Dances: Introduction 2:46

B2         Rattling For A Vision 7:40

B3         Dances: First Movement      5:27

B4         Dances: Second Movement 3:39

C1         Los Brujios         18:25

C2         Dances: Third Movement    2:11

D1         Dances: Fourth Movement  6:08

D2         Song For A Kalimba And A String Instrument      14:42

E1         Scenes: First Episode 4:43

E2         Buddist Monks Priest Song 4:44

E3         Scenes: Second Episode      9:50

F1          The Impossible Concert       6:58

F2          M.R. Jazz  5:13

F3          "Ostinato In Blue"     4:30

F4          The Impossible... Jazz At Philharmonic         3:16

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               THE RECORD:

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)          The album is guaranteed to come with the original inser still intact.

(c)           The album is guaranteed to come with the original poster still intact.

(d)          The album comes with BOTH original booklet still intact.

(e)           The records are guaranteed to come in their  original, custom, inner sleeves, which are UNIQUE to this album.

(f)              The record is apparently pressed on a RELATIVELY  thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type),  vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.

(g)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                               THE COVER (1/2" THICK BOX)

THE BOX IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP  (A SMALL PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP IS MISSING)

(PLEASE NOTE: IN ORDER TO ALLOW THE ARTIST TO AUTOGRAPH AND HAND-NUMBER THE BOX, THE SHRINK WRAP ON THE TOP SEAM HAD TO BE SLIT OPEN ALONG  THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF  THE SHRINK (THIS DOES NOT AFFECT THE BOX ITSELF); REST ASSURED THAT THE BOX SET IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND UNUSED DESPTE THE SEPARATED SHRINK WRAP.

NO SIGNIFICANT FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  BOX

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