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Bixio, Frizzi, Tempera Magnetic Systems

Finders Keepers | Item No: 473071
Vinyl LP | 2016 / UK – Original | New
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Item Description
From the same vibrant cinematic landscape of 70s studio supergroups as Goblin, The
Pawnshop, The Feedback and The Braen’s Machine comes The Magnetic System -
the Italian incognito dream team comprised of Milano prog keyboardist Vince Tempera
and Cinevox sibling Franco Bixio and launched the career of Video Nasty maestro
Fabio Frizzi. Bridging the void between Giallo jazz bass driven prog and the arrival of
home studios and synthesisers, the omnipresent film music of The Magnetic System
marked a sea change in Italian genre film music, promoting melodic electronics to the
forefront of Italian pop culture and pre-empting the first murmurs of Italo disco and
synth-pop. Sharing session musicians, studios and release schedules with many of
the aforementioned luminaries, Bixio, Frizzi and Tempera’s magnetic powers continue
to attract musicians and aficionados of discerning sight and sound.
Masterminded in the mid-70s at the apex of Italian film music’s most exciting transitional
period, The Magnetic System was created to encapsulate the combined efforts of three
of the country’s most prolific and adventurous soundtrack composers in an attempt
to retarget their lauded behind-the-scenes personas towards the Italian commercial
instrumental pop market. In the early 1970s with a climate that nurtured instrumental
rock such as the work of Franco Battiato, Sensation’s Fix and Le Orme, the soundtrack
specialist label Cinevox (founded by Cesare Andrea Bixio) identified opportunities
within their roster and pressed up a string of non-cinematic psychsploitation bands
like The Motowns and Cherry Five, finally finding chart success with the rebranded
writing team known as Goblin. By 1977 the unison and group christening of Franco
Bixio, Fabio Frizzi and Vincenzo Tempera aka The Magnetic System would join a list of
retitled outfits like The Pawnshop (featuring Allesandro Allesandroni, Giuliano Sorgini
and Giulia De Mutiis), The Braen’s Machine (featuring Allesandroni and Rino De Filipi)
and The Group (a drum-heavy version of Morricone’s Gruppo di Improvvisazione di
Nuova Consonanza), all of whom took brief hiatuses from their soundtrack and library
music day jobs to throw overqualified prog pop on the commercial craps table. The
unfortunate low demand for these ambitious unchartered excursions resulted in small
runs, which (with time as a healer) would cause future record collectors to salivate
- the one and only 7” single by The Magnetic System being no exception to this
phenomenon. Also experimenting under further alter egos such as the Day-Glo Fruit Of
The Gum and the Spaghetti Western-cum-disco Benjamin Franklyn Band, the group’s
third moniker The Magnetic System specifically showcased the trio’s more aggressive,
brooding and heavier sound in comparison to its sister groups. This compilation gathers
a wider selection of the trio’s compositions that fall within the stylistic parameters of
The Magnetic System’s creative blueprint; culling drum-heavy synthesised psychedelic
soundtracks with sympathetic leanings to the white funk/cosmic disco murmurings of
the era
Item Details
Item No: 473071
Artist: Bixio, Frizzi, Tempera
Title: Magnetic Systems
Label: Finders Keepers
Catalog No: FKR084LP
Format: Vinyl LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: UK – Original
Release Date: 2016
Genre: Organic Grooves, Soundtracks
Style: Jazz | Fusion, Movies | TV
Available since: 2016-04-13
Condition: New
Price: $ 19.07
Weight: 250g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 Allucinazioni Mistiche
A2 Escape (7 Version)
A3 Death's Song
A4 Facce Violente
A5 Attesa Insopportabile
A6 Chaco
A7 Vai Gorilla
A8 Night Club Dance
A9 Sette Note In Nero
B1 Electronic Sound (Excerpt)
B2 Avangiu
B3 Godzilla
B4 The Hunt Down
B5 Concession Naturali
B6 Escape (Film Version)
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