AMS Rock & Indie 27 Items

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Dedalus Crystal Vinyl Edition

Dedalus

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (AMS)

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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One of the most experimental bands of the Italian Prog scene, Dedalus were founded at the beginning of the '70s by Michele Bonansone (keyboards, cello, vocals) and Marco Di Castri (guitar, saxophone) in Pinerolo, near Turin.

Their first eponymous LP consists of instrumental jazz-rock compositions, influenced by artists like Nucleus, Miles Davis, Soft Machine, Stockhausen and many other musical innovators of the time. "Dedalus" was originally released in 1973, and in the same year the band took part at the Avantgarde and New Trends Festival in Naples, being pointed as the real revelation of the event.

The album, enclosed in one of the most peculiar Italian Prog artworks by Cesare Monti, already contains some of the avantgarde hints which would be fully developed in the following "Materiale per tre esecutori e nastro magnetico".

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Il Bacio Della Medusa

Imilla Red Vinyl Edition

18,99 €*

Between Flesh And Divine Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“Imilla” is the fifth studio album by the Italian prog-rock band Il Bacio della Medusa, hailing from the town of Perugia; a record leaves back the electronic experiments of its predecessor “Seme*” and returns to the visceral and multifaceted rock sound that shaped most of the band’s production stylistic code.

Here we are facing a new concept album, based on a ‘contemporary’ topic and inspired by the figure of Monika Ertl, who took the name “Imilla” when she joined the Bolivian revolutionary militia during the 60s and the 70s. Initially recorded in a mainly acoustic form, entirely conceived and composed by frontman Simone Cecchini, once proposed to the rest of the band, thanks mostly to the arrangements curated by Diego Petrini, “Imilla” has finally changed into its current form, with progressive and hard rock tones, without however completely abandon its original folk and Latin nature.

In “Imilla”, the band’s 20-year old main core, consisting of Diego Petrini’s sprawling and multifaceted percussion and keyboards, Federico Caprai’s pounding bass, Eva Morelli’s flutes and saxophones, delicate and sharp at the same time, and Simone Cecchini’s histrionic voice, perfectly combines with the new guitarist – Eva’s younger brother – Andrea Morelli’s biting and roaring riffs. The result is yet another excellent album from one of the most significant bands of the modern Italian prog-rock scene!

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Asia Minor

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (AMS)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Wyrd Clear Blue Vinyl Edition

Ellesmere

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (AMS)

33,99 €*

LP | 1974 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Ellesmere, a symphonic-prog music project founded and led by Italian multi-instrumentalist Roberto Vitelli, author of all the music and lyrics, surprisingly comes back just one year after their second album "Ellesmere II / From sea and beyond" with an amazing work in terms of freshness, energy, impact and meticulous attention towards its sound and arrangements.

First of all, "Wyrd" deserves admiration starting from the cover artwork made by Rodney Matthews, an iconic illustrator at least equal to the legendary Roger Dean. Musically, it evolves on the same path of "Ellesmere II", so the main references are classic prog outfits Yes, King Crimson, Kansas, plus a good amount of jazz-rock, present in every song; but there are also references to contemporary progressive rock and to artists such as Transatlantic, Flower Kings and Spock's Beard. "Wyrd" is therefore a third epic and even more enthralling chapter than the previous one, almost completely instrumental and captivating from the first minute to the very last one.

As per tradition, "Wyrd" also involves a series of prog-related prestigious guests: Mattias Olsson (Änglagård, White Willow / drums), Tomas Bodin (The Flower Kings / keyboards), David Cross (King Crimson / violin), John Hackett (brother of the famous Steve Hackett and a constant presence in his solo records / flute), David Jackson (Van Der Graaf Generator, Osanna / saxophone), Tony Pagliuca (Le Orme / keyboards), Luciano Regoli (Raccomandata Ricevuta Ritorno / voice), Fabio Liberatori (Loy & Altomare, Lucio Dalla, Ron / keyboards), Fabio Bonuglia (keyboards) and Giorgio Pizzala (vocals).

In a path of musical and stylistic evolution that started from the acoustic and pastoral prog of "Les Châteaux De La Loire" (2015), we hope that "Wyrd" does not represent point of arrival, but another passage towards new unexplored lands!

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Murple

Io Sono Murple

Release: 1974 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Stranger Skies Lilac Vinyl Edition

Ellesmere

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (AMS)

29,99 €*

Nuda Clear Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“Stranger Skies” is the fourth discographic chapter of multi-instrumentalist Roberto Vitelli’s Ellesmere project, musically and visually strongly linked to the previous “Wyrd” released in 2021: from an iconographic point of view, in fact, the collaboration with the famous illustrator Rodney Matthews, creator of a marvellous cover painting depicting two opposing worlds, one ‘cold’ – linked to the first four songs of the album – and one ‘warm’ – connected to the two long closing compositions – is here renewed. “Stranger Skies” thus once again deals with the theme of travelling and discovering new, unexplored worlds, the real trait d’union of all Ellesmere’s records.

Musically, we are fronting work that naturally follows in the footsteps of “Wyrd”, a magniloquent and energetic symphonic progressive rock, no longer largely instrumental as previously done but including a real singer that perfectly fits Roberto’s songwriting: his name is John WIlkinson, co-author with Roberto of the title-track lyrics. The main inspiration sources for this album are Genesis’ “A Trick of the Tail” and Rush’s “Moving Pictures”.

As per usual, the Ellesmere project relies on a large first-class collaborators line-up who, in addition to the main core consisting of Roberto Vitelli (bass, keyboards and main songwriter), Mattias Olsson (drums), John Wilkinson (vocals) and Giacomo Anselmi (guitar) respond to the names of Clive Nolan (keyboards), Graeme Taylor (acoustic guitar), Tomas Bodin (keyboards), John Hackett (flute), David Jackson (saxophones and wind instruments), Bob Hodges (keyboards), Stefano Vicarelli (keyboards) and Riccardo Romano (backing vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar). A must for every lover of symphonic prog and modern progressive rock!

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Garybaldi

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Rarities (Film Versions And Alternates) Record Store Day 2023 Edition

Goblin

LP | 2023 | US | Reissue (AMS)

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (AMS)

Release: 2023 / US – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Record Store Day 2023 exclusive release on Straight from Goblin’s vast production archives, here is an exclusive collection of alternative versions, sometimes very different from the original tracks included in the official releases, of some of the band’s songs released from 1975 to 1982, from the legendary debut LP "Profondo Rosso" to "Tenebre", passing through the extraordinary "Suspiria", "Zombi" and "Phenomena" and the 'hidden gems' of "Patrick", "Contamination" and "Buio Omega".

“Rarities” is a new exclusive Record Store Day release whose alternative cuts highlight the sublime levels of creativity and compositional skills that the Goblin were gifted with, especially at the beginning of their career. Their sinister and gloomy atmospheres put the creeps, now as then, thanks to a timeless music that has inspired and still influences an impressive number of artists, from the 1980s to the present day!

Compiled for Record Store Day 2023!

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L'Estate Di San Martino

Kim

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Phenomena Clear Purple Vinyl Edition

Goblin

LP | 2014 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

Release: 2014 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Le Stelle di Mario Schifano

Dedicato A Purple Vinyl Edition

LP | 1967 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

30,99 €*

Release: 1967 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Crossing The Line Limited Yellow Vinyl Edition

Asia Minor

LP | 1979 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

Wagdans Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 1979 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“Crossing the Line” is the first album by Asia Minor, a cult band of the progressive rock scene founded by two Turkish students living in Paris, Setrak Bakirel and Erik Tekeli, who are still ...

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Galaverna

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (AMS)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Apoteosi Clear Purple Vinyl Edition

Apoteosi

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

Fede Speranza Carita Clear Purple Vinyl Edition

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Apoteosi were a very rare, if not the one and only, progressive voice coming from the Calabria region. Their self-titled LP, released in 1975, therefore in a period of transition for the prog-rock genre, is undoubtedly one of the most emblematic LP’s and shows how a young and geographically completely ‘out of the loop’ group has been able to create a small jewel. “Apoteosi” is a work deliciously poised between pastoral and refined moments and darker and ‘crimson’ moods, with an extremely original approach and that still deserves to be listened to carefully after exactly 40 years.

Almost every musician in the band will take off towards important careers in the music world, reflecting the talent of a group that even featured a 14-year old keyboardist Massimo Idà. There’s a curious “Coro Alessandroni” presence in the credits: “Apotheosis” was recorded in Rome, therefore we’re probably talking about the same Alessandro Alessandroni who at the time had already worked on many different soundtracks written by Ennio Morricone.

The remarkable rhythm section and the musical cohesion of the musicians are standout elements in this LP, since they were able to create a musical continuum that holds a qualitative tension along the whole work; moreover, there is a close proximity to certain models the English progressive underground, rather than the Italian one, the Canterbury scene in particular. “Apoteosi” stands still today among the hidden and precious gems delivered from a florid era of artistic ferment.

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J.E.T.

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Maxophone Crystal Clear Vinyl Edition

Maxophone

LP | 1975 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

Campo Di Marte Clear Vinyl Ediition

Release: 1975 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Maxophone, from Milan, formed in 1973 as a six-piece with an unusual assortment of instruments, due to their past experience as music students. A band of great talents and musicianship, their only LP, released in 1975, came too late to compete with the most important Italian bands of the genre and went sadly unnoticed.

"Maxophone", released on the Produttori Associati label (along with Duello Madre one of the few ventures in rock records by this label) is a marvellous album, full of dreamy atmospheres and complex horn arrangements, with good vocal parts in a Genesis style and is nowadays considered as one of the best Italian prog records of all times. [source: www.italianprog.it]

Limited edition on crystal vinyl.

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Campo Di Marte

L'aurora Crystal Vinyl Edition

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Campo di Marte self-titled album is considered to be one of the best italian progressive records of the Seventies. This Italian prog classic is now available from AMS Records in a new limited deluxe LP reissue on 180gr. crystal vinyl.

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Le Orme

LP | 1970 | Reissue (AMS)

Release: 1970 / Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Points Of Libration Turquoise Vinyl Edition

Asia Minor

LP | 2021 | EU | Original (AMS)

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Boxes Paradise Purple Vinyl Edition

Sensations' Fix

LP | 2019 | EU (AMS)

Release: 2019 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Listening today to the music produced by Sensations' Fix, a project founded and directed by Franco Falsini in '70s, can't just leave anyone indifferent. Already in the mid-'60s, Falsini was full-time involved in musical activities: a tireless traveler and experimenter, an artist with uncommon curiosity and intuition, after having lived for some time in the United States and England, he finally established again in Italy where he gave shape to Sensations' Fix and signed a contract with Polydor for the release of six records in five years. Often associated with the sound of Tangerine Dream and the so-called German 'cosmic couriers', Sensations' Fix were much more than mere clones of something already existing.

"Boxes Paradise" is the fifth Sensations' Fix album, originally released in 1977 and never officially reissued on vinyl to date. Musically, it follows the same path inaugurated on the previous "Finest Finger", with an even more refined and elegant production, more structured and longer tracks (three out of seven exceeding the 6-minute length), all sung by an increasingly confident Franco Falsini. There are also various instrumental sections, guitar solos and 'spacey-sounding' keyboards reminiscent of the band's previous records. A real gem that sounds fresh and ripe even today!

Sensations' Fix albums are generally difficult to find; almost none of them has been reprinted in over forty years, but thanks to this series of reissues on the VM label it is now possible to rediscover them all.

First ever LP reissue, on violet Colored Vinyl!

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Pholas Dactylus

Concerto Delle Menti

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Il Reale Impero Britannico

OST Perché Si Uccidono

LP | 2009 | EU | Original (AMS)

LP | 1970 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

Release: 2009 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Soundtracks

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Reale Impero Britannico surely is the rarest record of the Goblin universe, together with Cherry Five of course. Released in a very small batch of copies in January 1976, as the soundtrack of an obscure movie called "Perché si uccidono" tough it was recorded some time before, when the members of Goblin still called themselves Cherry Five, as the band still featured Cherry Five singer Tony Tartarini (who sings in the excellent "My damned shit") and drummer Walter Martino. Afterwards the band will change its name in Goblin recording its breakthrough record bestseller: the soundtrack of Profondo Rosso.

This is also why "Perché si uccidono" is the perfect musical hook-up between Cherry Five and Goblin. Some tracks where composed by Fabio Frizzi, a famous composer of thriller and horror scores, one alone namely "Kalì", and the other four, "Epopea", "Ammoniaca", "Epopea (Reprise)" and "Edda" (sung by the Italian actress Edda dell'Orso) together with the musicians that soon will call themselves Goblin: Simonetti, Morante, Pignatelli and Martino.

Willy Brezza has composed the remaining instrumental five tracks: "My damned shit", with A. Pietravalle, "Dodici e un quarto", "Block", "R.I.B.", "Apotheke" and "Distrazioni". An essential and rare record for Goblin lovers!

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Le Orme

L'Aurora

Release: 1970 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Analogy Black Vinyl Edition

Analogy

LP | 1972 | EU | Reissue (AMS)

Release: 1972 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Alphataurus

Una Riflessione Record Store Day 2024 Clear Orange Vinyl Edition

Release: 1973 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Nothing much to say about this one, Alphataurus, by sure one of the
ten best Italian prog records of all times. Alpahataurus is a
masterpiece, so well crafted and played that it seems impossible
that's been made by a group of unknowns. The singer Bavaro has a very
original voice, keyboard player Pietro Pellegrini plays with
competence and no self-indulgence, guitar-playing of Guido Wasserman
is well cared and the rhythm section of Oliva and Santandrea creates a
powerful background. The album includes five long compositions of
which Peccato d'orgoglio and La mente vola are the best, the latter
featuring a nice moog intro and a stunning vibes solo.
LP reissue in triple gatefold sleeve as the original album, with sound
taken the master tapes.

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Dalton

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (AMS)

37,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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