Ballettirosadimacchia

Little is known about this mysterious progressive rock group, whose only and good album often changed hands for incredible prices before people started to realise it's not a real Italian 1970's rarity. Even the year of recording is uncertain. Some say it is from 1974-75, but it seems more likely that it came out in the second half of the 1980's or early 1990's.

The LP cover was printed in Canada and recorded with a German producer. The music is good organ and Mellotron-led prog sung in Italian with a strong foreign accent and often incomprehensible lyrics. This is almost certainly a foreign group, probably Japanese, playing under fake Italian names, and even the incredibly high number of errors in the cover notes and lyrics confirms this impression.

Supposedly this is Japanese band Osaka and the album was recorded in the beginning of the 1990's.

o Tonino Leo Ucchi (vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, flute, Mellotron)
o Antonio Sassada (acoustic & electric guitar)
o [a=Gianni Mazzi] (piano, organ, Moog synthesizer)
o [a=Marcello Taddeo Matteotti] (drums, percussion, organ, Mellotron)