ANDREA CENTAZZO INDIAN TAPES ULTRA ORIG '80 ITALIAN 3-LP BOX SET w/ALL INSERTS

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·      ANDREA CENTAZZO - INDIAN TAPES - ULTRA-RARE ORIGINAL 1980 PRIVATE PRESSING ON OBSCURE ITALIAN 'ICTUS' LABEL; EXTREMELY LIMITED EDITION OF 300 (THIS IS NOT A NUMBERED EDITION)- ORIGINAL ICTUS STEREO 3-LP BOX SET ICTUS 0013/14/15.

·      ORIGINAL ITALIAN PRESSING

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

·      This box set INCLUDES ALL FOUR ORIGINAL INSERTS: 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.

·      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 7.

·      CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS (WITH "SIAE", ITALIAN COPYRIGHT/PUBLISHING AGENCY'S STAMP NOTED ON ALL SIX SIDES)

·      MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

·      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

 (EXCERPTS FROM THREE ANONYMOUS ONLINE REVIEWS)

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 RECORDS:

(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)         WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG NEAR MINT. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)         The box set comes with ALL FOUR original inserts INCLUDED (see above for details)

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

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

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

·                          THE COVER (1/2" THICK BOX)

THE BOX IS (WEAK) NEAR MINT

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-       The box has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 1.

-       The box has one corner slightly dinged

-       The box has a light "wrinkle" (crease)  in one of the corners.

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE BOX

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