Contaminazione

Contaminazione
Studio album by Il Rovescio della Medaglia
Released	1973
Genre	Progressive rock, Symphonic Prog, Italian Progressive Rock
Label	RCA
Il Rovescio della Medaglia chronology
Io come io (1972)1972 Contaminazione (1973) ...Giudizio avrai (1988)...Giudizio avrai1988
English version cover
1975 English version cover

Contaminazione is the third studio album by the Italian progressive rock band Il Rovescio della Medaglia, released in 1973.

It's arranged by Luis Enríquez Bacalov, refers to the symphonic prog especially the inclusion of the Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach: the full title of the album is in fact Contaminazione di alcune idee de certi preludi e fughe del Clavicembalo ben temperato di J.S. Bach (Contamination of some ideas of some preludes and fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier by JS Bach).

Apart from a few isolated cases in fact (in example, "Alzo un muro elettrico"), the work is structurally compact and indivisible. Not by chance, it will not extract any 7", in this critical context, the quality of the disc are immediately obvious:

• Compact and tonal balance and artistic where the "full and empty spaces" created dall'arrangiatore are largely enhanced by the dynamic response of the incision.
• Greater ease in implementation, which makes the product even and pleasant.
• Substantial lack of stylistic limitations that result as the value of the individual instrumental skills of the musicians.
• Greater consistency between acoustic and electric instruments that makes the "sound" overall unique and original for the Italian scene.
• Parts vocal and choral never invasive but fell harmoniously into the musical story.

The album was re-recorded in English in 1975 under the title Contamination, with little changes to text and titles and with a different cover art.

Track listing

Regular version

1. Absent for this consumed world (1:05)
2. Ora non ricordo più (1:47)
3. Il suono del silenzio (5:16)
4. Mi sono svegliato e...ho chiuso gli occhi (4:19)
5. Lei sei tu: lei (2:04)
6. La mia musica (4:10)
7. Johann (1:23)
8. Scotland machine (3:06)
9. Cella 503 (3:18)
10. Contaminazione 1760 (1:04)
11. Alzo un muro elettrico (2:55)
12. Sweet suite (2:17)
13. La grande fuga (3:42)

English version

1. Absent Mind
2. Orphan Me
3. Johann's Rock
4. Another Name Am I
5. Crazy Baby
6. Lost Myself Today
7. Johann
8. Scotched
9. I Can Fly
10. Contamination
11. Isolation Ward
12. For The Love Of Anna
13. Bach Lives

Personnel

• Pino Ballarini - vocals
• Gino Campoli - percussives
• Enzo Vita - guitar
• Stefano Urso - bass
• Franco di Sabatino - keyboard

See also

• Italian progressive rock
• Well-Tempered Clavier